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tur / tun- carry (things which stand up, like wood) in a packbasket; to gather (wood)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6136 | revised Nov 09 2015
tur / tun- • V • carry (things which stand up, like wood) in a packbasket; to gather (wood)
Derivatives (6)
tur "packbasket load (of wood or the like)"
túrar "to go gather wood"
túrish "to finish gathering wood"
turíshriihva "to carry load after load of wood"
túunfak "to carry (wood) down from uphill"
túunsip "to load up, to raise up with a burden basket (full of wood or the like) on one's back"
Source: WB 1402, p.387
- áhup utúunti. She's carrying wood in a packbasket. [Reference: KV]
- yíiv vúra hâari máruk pa'áhup kuntúunti. Sometimes they go wood-gathering far upslope. [Reference: TK 184.24]
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xas pa'asiktávaansa káru áhup tá kuntúrar then the.women also wood PERF they.went.to.gather.wood Then the women went out to fetch firewood. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkusripán'ahup kuntúrish madrone.wood they.finished.gathering.wood They brought in madrone wood. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxás áxak ifápiitichas sah'áhup kunturar astiip then two young.women driftwood they.went.to.gather.wood shore Then two girls went to the river to get driftwood." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textxás kuníptuunsip then they.carried.wood.in.their.packbaskets Then they packed their wood in their packbaskets. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textpúyava máruk xás áhup sú' tá kunmáhyaan túr tá kuníkyav you.see uphill then wood inside PERF they.put.in packbasket.load PERF they.make Uphill they put wood in them, they make a basket-load. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás vaa vúra káan tá kun'íitshur pamukúntur then then so Intensive there PERF they.leave their.basket-load And they leave their basket-loads there." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textxás kunpiip vaa vúra kun'írunaatiheesh patur then they.say so Intensive they.will.walk the.basket-load And then they said, "The basket-loads will walk (home by themselves)." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textvúra uum yararápiit vúra kámtuuntih Intensive 3.SG new.married.woman Intensive let.her.carry.it Let the new married woman be carrying it." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás vaa ukupíti payêem tá pu'áhootihara patur then then so it.is.doing now PERF it.doesn't.walk the.basket-load So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full texttá kunturíshriihva pasárip PERF they.carried.it.in.pack.baskets the.hazel.sticks They carried home the hazel sticks in burden baskets. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full textpayêem uum tá kóo patur chishíi mûuk uum tah now 3.SG PERF all the.packbasket dog with.(by.means.of) 3.SG already Now the use of burden baskets is all gone, it is with horses now. Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full textpasárip'atimnak pakuntúunfak in.the.hazel-twig.burden.baskets they.carried.wood.downhill They carried them downhill in hazel-twig burden baskets. Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text