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úhthaam garden
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lexicon ID #6207 | revised Jan 22 2016
úhthaam • N • garden
Literally: 'tobacco-meadow'
Derivation: | úuh thaam |
tobacco meadow |
Derivatives (3)
uhcháamach "man's name, Pete Henry"
uhtháamha "to plant"
uhthamha'ávaha "vegetables"
Source: WB 1480.5, p.390; TK 50.11
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payêem vúra vaa káan taay u'íifti pakáan píins kun'úhthaamhitihirak now Intensive so there much it.is.growing that.there beans where.the.beans.are.planted They grow more now where beans are planted. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full textvúra pu'uhthaamhítihap Intensive they.do.not.plant.it They do not sow it. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full textpeheeraha'úhthaamsa the.tobacco.plots Tobacco Plots Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textúhthaam garden any garden, orchard, or plantation; a tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textuhtháamha plant to plant, to sow Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textiheeraha'úhthaam tobacco.plot tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textiheeraha'uhthamhíram tobacco.planting.place tobacco garden Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpámitva iheeraha'uhthamhíramhanik when.previously ancient.tobacco.planting.place former tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpa'uhípih the.stalk Stalk Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpurafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish utháamhítihaphanik vúra iheeraha'úhish vúra kích kuniyâatihanik nothing Intensive also kind.of.seed they.were.not.planting.it.long.ago Intensive tobacco.seed Intensive only they.were.gathering.it.long.ago And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full textvaa vúra ník kun'áapunmutihanik káru vaa uum yáv papírish ávahkam kunithyúruthunatihaak patá kunpúhthaampimarahaak so Intensive a.little they.knew.it.long.ago also so 3.SG good the.foliage over when.they.drag.it.around that.has when.they.finish.gardening They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full textkusâam panunu'úhthaam downhill our.garden Our garden is down the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Playkáan tishrámkaam xás úhthaamhitih káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya there a.big.field then he.is.planting also a.little.tree there it.is.standing A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textutishramhúniihva káru máruk víri vaa káan káru uhthaamhíramhitih it.is.a.field.sloping.down also uphill so so there also it.is.a.planting.place There are fields on the slopes uphill also, there is cultivated ground there too. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textpáy uum úhthaam koonmúrax this 3.SG garden nothing.but.corn This is a garden, nothing but corn. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text