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thúkin gall, bile; (in compounds) blue, green, yellow
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6014 | revised Jan 29 2016
thúkin • N • gall, bile; (in compounds) blue, green, yellow
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Source: WB 1469, p.390
Note: Cf. asathukin'ávahkam 'placename, lit. above-yellow-rock'.
- thúkin tóokuuyva. He has jaundice. (Lit., 'Bile hit him.') [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 341]
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chéemyaach ík vúra atáychukinach i'úunupraveesh quickly must Intensive young.brodiaea.plant you.will.sprout.up Grow early, Spring Cacomite. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textchéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh quickly must Intensive young.brodiaea.plant you.will.sprout.up Grow up early, Spring Cacomite. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textchéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh quickly must Intensive young.brodiaea.plant may.you.grow.up Grow up soon, young Blue Dicks. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full textpayáan vúr u'íiftihaak puxxích thúkkinkunish peheeraha'íppa pachím uimtúppeeshahaak vaa kári taváttavkunish that.recently Intensive when.it.is.growing very.much blue-green the.tobacco.plant that.already when.will.be.ripe so then light-colored When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full textyupthúkirar uxráratih panther it.is..crying A mountain lion is crying. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Playkupánakanakana chéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh the.end quickly must Intensive young.brodiaea.plant you.will.sprout.up kupánakanakana. Young brodiaea plant, you must come up quickly. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full textkáru chêech ík ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh also quickly must young.brodiaea.plant you.will.sprout And young brodiaea plant, you must come up quickly. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Playyukún peethívthaaneen vúra thúkinkunish xás kúnish ûumukich you.see the.earth Intensive blue-green then sort.of near The earth is so green and kind of close. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full textchavúra kun'uum vúra uum yâamach peethívthaaneen kípa thúkin finally they.arrived Intensive 3.SG pretty the.country like bile Finally they arrived, the country was beautiful and green. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full texthâari aax tóo sáansur payíkihar káru hâari thúkin sometime blood she.had take.off the.sick also sometime bile Sometimes she took blood off of the sick person, and sometimes bile. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full textpa'arara'asiktávaan uum ishváak uthúkinhahitih the.Indian.woman 3.SG chin it.was.tattooed The Indian women were tattooed on the chin. Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full textxás amyiv káru athkúrit ta kuníyshar xás vaa tá kuniyvúruk pathúkinhak then soot also fat PERF they.mixed then so PERF they.rubbed.it on.the.tattoo Then they mixed soot and grease, and they rubbed it on the tattoo. Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full textxás pa'ôok va'áraaras pamukún'aav puthúkinhitihara then here its.people their.face they.didn't.tattoo And the Indians here didn't tattoo their faces (above the chin). Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text