Ararahih'urípih
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ákah father

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #236 | revised Nov 07 2014

ákah N • father

Derivative (1)
akáhyaan "stepfather"

Source: WB 50, p.316

  • hínupa páy vaa pani'ávanhiti panani'ákah. It was my father that I married. [Reference: KT 161.6]
  • xás takunipêer pamukun'ákah, yee! arákaas, hûut ti'iin. And they said to their father, "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?" [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 026]


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  1. fâat    kumá'ii    pananítaat    káru    panani'áka        kuniyâaram    fâat    kumá'ii   
    what    because.of    my.mother    also    my.father    PERF    they.took.them.away    what    because.of   
    Why did they take my father and mother away?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play
  2. xás    pihnêefich    upíip        kunchúuphinaa    pa'avansáxiichas    kóova        kunchúuphinaa    kóova    pa'avansáxiichas    xás    upíip    "hôoy    mikun'ákah   
    then    coyote    he.said    PERF    they.talked.    the.boys    so    PERF    they.talked.    so    the.boys    then    he.said    where    your.father   
    Then Coyote said, the boys talked with him, they talked to him, the boys talked with him, and he said: "Where is your father?"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  3. vaa    mu'ákah   
    that    3sPOSS   
    It's his father.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  4. panani'ákah    vúra    tupihnîichha   
    my.father    Intensive    he.is.an.old.man   
    My father is old.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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  5. panani'ákah    vúra    uum    tupihnîichha   
    my.father    Intensive    3.SG    he.is.an.old.man   
    My father is old.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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  6. pamu'ákah    uum    îikam   
    his.father    3.SG    outdoors   
    His father is outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  7. hûut    kích    pami'ákah   
    how    only    your.father   
    How's your father?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  8. pananí'ákah    vúrava    pimnáanih   
    the.my.father    just    summer   
    My father (gathered wood) in the summer.
    Source: Vina Smith, Gathering wood (VS-47) | read full text
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  9. ayu’âach    púfaat    pa'ávansa    iináak    panini'ákah    uum    támit    u'ívat   
    it.was.because    nothing    the.men    placename    my.father    3.SG    already.in.the.past    he.died   
    It was because there was no man in the house, my father had died.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
  10. xás    poovôonupuk    pa'ávansa    víri    vúra    vaahyâach    pamu'áka   
    then    when.he.comes.outdoors    the.man    so    Intensive    exactly.that    her.father   
    And when the man came out, he was just like her father.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  11. xás    upíti    chími    pami'áka    pimúsan   
    then    he.is.saying    soon    your.father    go.to.see.again   
    Then (her husband) said, "Go see your father again."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  12. xás    pâanpay    xás    uxús    naa    nixúti    napikshayvûunishti    yukún    koovúra    vaa    umúsahiti    panunú'uup    káru    uum    vúra    vaa    umúsahiti    panini'áka   
    then    after.while    then    she.thinks    1sg.    I.am.thinking    he.is.lying.to.me    you.see    all    that    it.looks.like    our.possessions    also    3.SG    Intensive    that    he.looks.like    my.father   
    Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  13. yánava    panini'áka   
    visible    my.father   
    "I see it is my father!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  14. xás        kunipêer    pamukun'ákah    yee    arákaas    hûut    ti'iin   
    then    PERF    they.told.him    their.father    well    old.man    how    you.have.something.wrong.with.you   
    And they said to their father, "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  15. kári    xás    upêer    pamú'aramah    chími    pami'áka    êehi    paxuun   
    then    then    she.told.her    her.child    soon    your.father    give.it.to.him    the.acorn.soup   
    And she told her child, "Give your father his acorn soup!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  16. pamu'akah'îin    kunpápivar   
    his.father    he.went.to.search.for.him   
    His father went to look for him.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  17. kári    xás    pihnîichich    uvôonsip    pamukun'ákah   
    then    then    old.man    he.got.up    their.father   
    Then the old man got up, their father.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  18. xás    upiip    nini'ákah   
    then    she.said    my.father   
    And she said, "My father!"
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  19. xás    mupîimach    pamu'áka    uhyárih   
    then    next.to.her    her.father    he.is.standing   
    Next to her is standing her father.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  20. xás    pamu'áka    mupîimach    uhyárih   
    then    her.father    next.to.her    he.is.standing   
    Her father is standing next to her.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text