Ararahih'urípih
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-aha / -ahi- Modal

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #169 | revised Oct 31 2014

-aha / -ahi- SUFF • Modal

Derivatives (2)
kupavêenaha "to do; to be up to something, to make mischief"
kupaveenahíichva "to make-believe"

Note: Part of the discontinuous modal morpheme kupa-...-aha (WB G732).


Sentence examples (37)

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  1. hãã    víri    vaa    hûutva    kípa    hûutva    kupakupháheesh        naséey   
    yes    so    so    somehow    like    somehow    how.to.do.it    PERF    I.do.not.know   
    How would I do that? I don't know.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
  2. vaa    hûut    nikupá'aapunmaheesh    hûut    uum    koos   
    so    how    I.will.know.that.way    how    3.SG    the.size.of   
    How will I know what size?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  3. káru    uum    yíth    kunkupeekyâahitih   
    also    3.SG    other    how.they.made.it   
    They make a different kind for that.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
  4. víri    hûut    kunkupa'ávahitih   
    so    how    how.are.they.eating.it   
    So how can they eat it? [without a special plate]
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. hári    kích    vaa    tikupatákiraha   
    sometime    like    so    you.have.soaked.acorns.like.that   
    Did you ever soak acorns like that?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. ishyâat    úpaanik    yaas'ára    vúra    u'aapúnmutiheesh    yakun    pa'îin    yíth    ukupeexákahitiheesh    patá    nipikrêehaak    nani'îin   
    king.salmon    long.ago.he.said    rich.person    Intensive    he.will.know    you.see    the.falls    other    it.will.make.noise.that.way    that.has    when.I.reside.again    my.falls   
    Salmon said: “Human will know the water will sound different in the falls when I am in there, in my falls.
    Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text
  7. peheeraháaptiik    pa'uh'íppi    sákriivsha    puyâamahukich    kupeeshpáttahitihara   
    the.tobacco.branch    the.tobacco.stem    tough.ones    not.easy    it.does.not.break.in.some.way   
    The tobacco-branches, the tobacco-stems are tough; they do not break easily.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  8. pahûut    ukupeethríhahaahiti    peethríha   
    how    it.blooms.in.some.way    the.flower   
    Phases of Flowering
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text
  9. vaa    ukupathitívahitih    kúnish    upíti    huhuhuhuhuhu   
    so    he.was.hearing.it.that.way    sort.of    it.was.saying    roaring.sound   
    He heard that, it sort of said, "Huhuhuhuhuhu."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  10. yánava    páxaath    vaa    vúra    ukupa'íshipithunahiti    pookupavúrayvahitiheen   
    visible    the.grasshoppers    so    Intensive    it.was.strung.around.that.way    where.he.had.been.wandering.like.that   
    He saw the grasshoppers strung around where he had been wandering.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  11. xás    vúra    hûut    chí    pakúuk    kunkupá'uumaheesh   
    then    Intensive    how    soon    to.there    they.will.arrive.somehow   
    And how were they to get there?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  12. víri    hûut    vúra    panikupeepvûunihaheesh   
    so    how    Intensive    I.will.go.back.down.somehow   
    How am I going to get back down?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  13. kári    xás    uxús    hûut    áta    nikupeepvûunihaheesh   
    then    then    he.thought    how    maybe    I.will.get.back.down.in.that.way   
    Then he thought, "How ever am I to get back down (to earth)?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  14. koovúra    ník    kunikyâavarihva    pá'aah    kunkupeekyâaheesh   
    all    a.little    they.tried.it    that.the.fire    they.will.make.it.thus   
    They tried everything to make fire.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  15. xás    úpeenti    pamú'aramah    kúna    vúra    yáv    peekupeekrêehitiheesh   
    then    he.is.saying.to.her    his.child    in.addition    Intensive    good    that.you.will.be.living.in.that.way   
    And he told his child, "But you will live well.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  16. vaa    ukupapakurîihvahitih    cháfich    kích    navíshtaantih   
    so    he.was.singing.that.way    bone.to.gnaw    only    I.want.it   
    He was singing that, "I just want a bone to gnaw on."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  17. víri    íp    nuxúsaat    vaa    kukupá'aapunmaheesh    vaa    íp    kúth    panupaathrámnihat    pa'ásipak   
    so    PAST    we.thought    so    you.will.know.it.in.that.way    so    PAST    because.of    that.we.threw.them.in.them    in.the.baskets   
    We thought you would know it in that way, that's why we threw them in the baskets."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  18. víri    hûut    chími    ukupeepsháanvaheesh   
    so    how    soon    she.would.take.it.back   
    How was she to carry it home?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  19. kári    xás    uxus    tîi    kanmáhi    hûut    áta    pookupeekyâahitih   
    then    then    she.thought    let...    let.me.see    how    maybe    how.she.is.making.it   
    And she thought, "Let me see how she makes it!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  20. xás    upiip    víri    hûut    ikupa'eethríshukvahiti    pamímyah   
    then    she.said    so    how    how.you.are.taking.it.out    your.heart   
    And she said, "How do you take out your heart?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  21. púyava    vaa    ukupeeykárahanik    papirishkâarim   
    you.see    so    how.he.killed.her.once    the.grizzly.bear   
    So he killed Grizzly that way.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  22. púyava    vúra        kunkáriha    pakunkupavúraheesh   
    you.see    Intensive    PERF    they.are.ready    when.they.will.jab.him   
    And they were ready to jab him.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text
  23. kári    xás    xára    vúra    yâamach    kunkupá'iinahitih   
    then    then    long.time    Intensive    pretty    they.lived.in.that.way   
    And they lived nicely for a long time.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  24. hûut    ník    vúra    panikupeepmáhaheesh    paninikeechíkyav   
    how    a.little    Intensive    that.I.will.see.him.that.way.again    my.sweetheart   
    How will I ever see my sweetheart again?
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  25. vaa    xasík    vúra    panikupeepmáhaheesh    paninikeechíkyav   
    so    then.(future)    Intensive    that.I.will.see.him.that.way.again    my.sweetheart   
    That way I'll see my sweetheart again.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  26. vaa    uxús    vaa    xasík    vúra    panikupeepmáhaheesh   
    so    she.thought    so    then.(future)    Intensive    that.I.will.see.him.that.way.again   
    She thought, "That way I'll see him again."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  27. 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
  28. víri    vaa    kinípeeranik    hûutva    kóo    ithívthaaneen    uthaanêehaak    xáyfaat    ik    kúkuum    vúra    vaa    kukupeepvíkaha   
    so    so    they.told.them    somehow    as.much.as    land    it.exists    don't!    must    again    Intensive    so    you.must.not.weave.that.way   
    (But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  29. chavúra    utooríshriihva    pookupakúhaheesh   
    finally    he.finished.counting    how.he.will.make.(a.person).sick   
    Finally he finished counting what he would make (a person) sick with.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  30. vaa    púufich    kunkupeeykárahiti    pa'áraar    kuntátapvutih   
    so    deer    they.killed.them.that.way    the.Indians    they.trapped.them   
    The Indians killed deer that way, they trapped them.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text
  31. vaa    kunkupeeykárahiti    papúufich   
    so    they.killed.them.that.way    the.deer   
    They killed the deer that way.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text
  32. pa'áraar    uum    pa'áama    ukupéekriihvahitih   
    the.Indian    3.SG    the.salmon    he.fished.for.them.in.a.certain.way   
    The Indians fished for salmon in a certain way.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text
  33. víriva    pa'áama    kunkupeeykárahitih   
    so    the.salmon    they.caught.them.that.way   
    They caught the salmon that way.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text
  34. púyava    íshyaav    kunkupeeykárahitih   
    you.see    winter    they.are.killing.it.that.way   
    They killed it that way in the winter.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text
  35. peekmaháchraam    uum    yíth    ukupeekyâahiti    káru    peekrívraam    uum    vúra    yith   
    the.sweathouse    3.SG    other    it.was.made.in.some.way    also    the.living-house    3.SG    Intensive    other   
    The sweathouse was made one way and the living-house another.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text
  36. púyava    páy    uum    papirish'ánav    kunkupeekyâahitih   
    you.see    this    3.SG    plant.medicine    how.they.made.it   
    That’s how they made plant medicine.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text