Ararahih'urípih
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if to grow; (person) to grow up; (water) to boil; (bread) to rise

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1453 | revised Nov 07 2014

if V 1 to grow; (person) to grow up • 2 (water) to boil (lexicon ID #1454)3 (bread) to rise (lexicon ID #1455)

Derivatives (19; show derivatives)

Source: WB 400, p.335

  • panámniik u'ífanik. He grew up at Orleans. [Reference: WB 3: Coyote's Journey 002]
  • pa'ípaha u'íifti. The trees are growing. [Reference: KV]


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  1. kôokaninay    vúr    u'íiftih   
    everywhere    Intensive    it.is.growing   
    They grow all over.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text
  2. 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 text
  3. astíip    vúr    u'íifti    yúxnaam   
    shore    Intensive    it.is.growing    sand   
    It grows by the river in the sand.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text
  4. á'yaach    vúr    uvêehrímva    poo'íifti    peehêeraha   
    straight.up    Intensive    it.stands    when.it.is.growing    the.tobacco   
    The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  5. á'yaach    vúra    uvêehrimva    poo'íifti    peheeraha'íppa   
    straight.up    Intensive    it.stands    when.it.is.growing    the.tobacco.plant   
    The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  6. káakum    vúra    a'vári    poo'íifti    káru    káakum    vúra    âapunich   
    some    Intensive    high    when.plants.are.growing    also    some    Intensive    low   
    Some [tobacco plants] grow low, some high.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  7. vaa    vúra    a'varittâapas    u'íifti    pa'avansa'ávahkamvari    tu'íffahaak   
    so    Intensive    extremely.high    it.is.growing    towards.the.top.of.the.man    when.it.has.grown   
    The highest that they grow is higher than man.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  8. vaa    vúr    upifyîimmuti    pa'avansa'ávahkamvari    tu'íffahaak   
    so    Intensive    it.is.growing.far.toward.(something)    towards.the.top.of.the.man    when.it.has.grown   
    The highest it ever grows is higher than man.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  9. payáan    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 text
  10. peehêeraha    u'íiftihirak   
    the.tobacco    where.it.grows   
    place where tobacco grows
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text
  11. pamupírish    vúra    pu'ivrárasurutihara    sákriivsha    pamúpsii    ípam    kunish    pamupirish'ápsii    xákaan    u'ifshúrootihirak    sákriivsha   
    its.leaves    Intensive    it.is.not.falling.off    hard.ones    its.stem    sinew    sort.of    its.leaf-stem    both    where.the.leaves.grow.off    hard.ones   
    The leaves do not fall off, they are tough leaf-stemmed, thier leaves are like sinew, where the leaves grow off [from the stem] is tough.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text
  12. vúra    ník    mít    vaa    kun'aapúnmutihat    pa'úhish    u'ífeesh   
    Intensive    a.little    near.past    so    they.knew.it    that.seed    it.will.grow   
    They Knew That Seeds Will Grow
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  13. kúna    vúra    vaa    kun'aapúnmutihanik    pa'áraar    hôoy    vúrava    pa'úhish    pookyívishrihaak    vaa    vúra    íkiich    u'ífeesh    kun'aapúnmutihanik    vúra    vaa   
    in.addition    Intensive    so    they.had.been.knowing.it.long.ago    the.people    where    just    the.seed    if.it.falls.down    so    Intensive    maybe    it.will.grow    they.had.been.knowing.it.long.ago    Intensive    that   
    But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  14. kúna    vúra    mít    puhári    úhish    ipshâanmutihaphat    pa'úhish    u'ífeesh   
    in.addition    Intensive    near.past    never    seed    they.took.them.back    that.seed    it.will.grow   
    But They Never Packed Seeds Home
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text
  15. kúna    vaa    vúra    ník    kun'áapunmutihanik    pamukunvôoh    muuk    vaa    káan    taay    u'íifti    pakáan    hitíhaan    kun'ûupvutihaak    patá    yíth    vaa    káan    yáanchiip    taay    u'íifti    yíth    pakáan    kun'uupvutihaak   
    there    so    Intensive    a.little    they.knew.it.long.ago    with.their.digging.sticks    with.(by.means.of)    that    there    much    it.is.growing    there    always    when.they.are.digging.it    that.has    other    so    there    next.year    much    it.is.growing    other    there    when.they.are.digging.it   
    But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text
  16. vaa    kunipíti    pakun'ûupvutihaak    patayîith    vaa    yâanchiip    kúkuum    taay    u'íiftih   
    so    they.are.saying    when.they.dig.it    the.Indian.potato    so    next.year    again    much    it.is.growing   
    They claim that by digging Indian potatoes, more grow up the next year again.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text
  17. taay    tûupichas    u'íifti    sú'    vaa    mupîimachich    patayîith   
    much    small.ones    it.is.growing    inside    that    next.to.it    the.Indian.potato   
    There are tiny ones growing under the ground, close to the Indian potatoes.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text
  18. áfeer        kunvítrip    vaa    uum    pukúkuum    píiftihara    pávaa    kun'îinishtihaak    payúux    uxéetchichhitih   
    resembling.the.base.of.[it]    PERF    they.pull.it.up    so    3.SG    not.again    it.was.not.growing.up    that    when.they.finished.doing.it    the.dirt    it.is.softer   
    Root and all they pull them out, so they will not grow up again, and by doing this the ground is made softer.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text
  19. vúra    xára    xás    vúra    tu'íf   
    Intensive    long.time    then    Intensive    it.raised   
    And after a long time it raised.
    Source: Vina Smith, Biscuits (VS-23) | read full text
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  20. máh'iit    tu'íf    xás    vúra    tóo    kyav    saraxútnahich   
    morning    it.raised    then    Intensive    PERF.she    make    pancake   
    In the morning it raised, and she made pancakes.
    Source: Vina Smith, Biscuits (VS-23) | read full text
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  21. itíhaan    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan    káru    xás    vúra    vaa    poo'if    vúra    vaa    itíhaan    vúra    ikpíhan   
    strong    Intensive    that    strong    also    then    Intensive    that    when.he.grew.up    Intensive    that    strong    Intensive    strong   
    He is always strong, and when he grew up he was just always strong.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  22. íp    poo'íf    xás    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan   
    PAST    when.he.grew.up?    then    Intensive    that    strong   
    Growing up he was strong.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  23. poo'íifti    xás    vúra    vaa    kâarim    vúra    púfaat    pu'ûum    táay    vúra    púfaat   
    when.he.was.growing.up    then    Intensive    that    bad    Intensive    nothing    not.barely    much    Intensive    nothing   
    When he was growing up he was poor, he didn't have hardly anything, he didn't have much.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  24. xás    vúra    vaa    tu'if   
    then    Intensive    that    he.grew.up   
    He grew up that way.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  25. vúra    púfaat    uum    vúra    mu'ám    mu'uup    xás    vúra    vaa    kâarim    xás    vúra    vaa    poo'íiftih   
    Intensive    nothing    3.SG    Intensive    his.food    his.possessions    then    Intensive    that    bad    then    Intensive    that    how.he.grew.up   
    He didn't have any food or possessions, he was poor, that is how he grew up.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  26. vâaram    ti'íf   
    long    you.have.grown   
    You grew tall.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  27. panámniik    u'ífanik   
    Orleans    he.grew.up   
    He grew up at Orleans.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  28. víri    vaa    kúth    payêem    paxuntápan    kôokaninay    vúra    u'íiftih   
    so    that    because.of    now    the.acorn    everywhere    Intensive    it.is.growing   
    That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  29. kári    ithívthaaneen    tóo    thárish    xás    paxuntápan        kunífar   
    then    land    they.had    put.down    then    the.acorns    PERF    they.came.to.grow   
    They were creating (lit., laying down) the world, and the acorns came to grow.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  30. yaxéek    vúra    nik    kunxúseesh    xuntápan    tu'ífar   
    you'll.see    Intensive    a.little    they.will.think    acorn    she.has.come.to.grow   
    They'll know (lit., think) that Tan Oak Acorn has come to grow.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  31. víri    îifuti        kunívyiihma    pakáan    kunífeesh    vúra    vaa    uthivkêetih   
    and.so    sure.enough    PERF    they.arrived    where    they.will.grow    Intensive    so    she.went.along   
    So sure enough, they arrived where they were going to grow, she accompanied them like that.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  32. itáharavan    kun'ífanik    tipahêeras   
    ten.(animate)    they.once.grew.up    brothers   
    Ten brothers grew up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  33. yáanchiip    táay    u'ífeesh    xuntápan   
    next.year    much    it.will.grow    acorn   
    The next year many acorns will grow.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text
  34. kári    xás    yítha    uum    káan    u'ífanik   
    then    then    one    3.SG    there    she.had.grown.up   
    And one (girl) had grown up there (at Orleans).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text
  35. ôok    kun'ífanik    ithivthanéen'aachip    áxak    ikxareeyav'ifápiitichas   
    here    they.grew.up    center.of.world    two    spirit.girls   
    Two spirit girls grew up here at the middle of the world.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text
  36. kári    xás    paniinamichtâapas    iknûumin veekxaréeyav    pamú'arama    vaa    vúra    ukupa'ífaha    pamútiik    u'ákchaaktih    xákarari    pamútiik    u'ákchaaktih   
    then    then    the.smallest    Burrill.Peak.spirit    his.child    so    Intensive    he.grew.up.this.way    his.hands    it.was.closed    on.both.sides    his.hands    it.was.closed   
    And Burrill Peak Spirit's littlest child grew up this way, his hands were closed, both his hands were closed.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  37. kári    xás    vaa    upiip    iimkun    úm    kúth    ni'íiftih    iimkun    úm    kumá'ii    ni'íiftih   
    then    then    so    he.thought    2pl.    or    because.of    I.am.growing.up    2pl.    or    because.of    I.am.growing.up   
    And he said, "Am I growing up for you people, am I growing up for your sake?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  38. naa    káru    vúra    káan    ni'íiftih   
    1sg.    also    Intensive    there    I.am.growing.up   
    I am growing up here too!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  39. koovúra    vaa    upítih    iimkun    úm    kúth    ni'íiftih   
    all    so    he.was.saying    2pl.    or    because.of    I.am.growing.up   
    Every time, (kunâach'aa) said, "Am I growing up for you people?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  40. naa    káru    vúra    káan    ni'íiftih    kunâach'aa   
    1sg.    also    Intensive    there    I.am.growing.up    bird.sp.   
    I am growing up here too, (I,) kunâach'aa!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  41. vaa    u'íifti    pamú'iish   
    so    it.grew    his.flesh   
    Thus his flesh grew.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  42. paxuntápan    uum    kun'ífiktih    ípahak    kun'íiftih   
    the.acorns    3.SG    they.were.picking.them    on.trees    they.were.growing   
    They picked the acorns, they grew on trees.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text
  43. xás    panunu'ífunih    vúra    xávish    mûuk    nupákootih    kíri    vâaramas    u'if    panunu'ífunih   
    then    our.hair    Intensive    mock.orange    with.(by.means.of)    we.were.whipping.our.hair    I.wish    long    it.grows    our.hair   
    And we whipped our hair with syringa, (thinking), "Let our hair grow long!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text