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ákunvar / ákunvan- to go hunting
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lexicon ID #307 | revised Oct 31 2014
ákunvar / ákunvan- • V • to go hunting
Derivation: | ákunva-ar |
hunt-go.to |
Derivative (1)
akunvarasímsiim "hunting knife"
Source: WB verbs
- xás upiip, uumkun téep kun'ákunvarat. And he said, "They've gone hunting." [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 010]
- chími nu'ákunvanveesh. We're going hunting. [Reference: KT 122b.4]
See -ar 'go to'
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kúkuum imáan tu'ákunvar again tomorrow he.went.hunting.again Again in the morning [the next day] he went hunting. Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full textkúkuum imáan tupákunvar again tomorrow he.went.hunting.again The next day, he went hunting again. [The same episode is repeated several times.] Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full textkári xás chími i'ákunvar then then soon you.go.hunt Then (Coyote said), "Go hunting!" Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full textmah'íitnihach tá kun'ivyíihrupuk tá kun'ákunvanva early.morning PERF they.go.outdoors PERF they.go.hunting Early in the morning they go out hunting. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxas pakunpámvaar kun'ákunvanva then when.they.finished.eating they.went.hunting And when they got through eating they went out to hunt. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkúkuum mah'íitnihach tá kun'ákunvanva patá kunpámvaar again early.morning PERF they.went.hunting when they.finished.eating And again in the early morning they went forth to hunt when they got through eating. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textyée ôok pámit ni'ákunvarat well here where.(in.the.near.past) I.went.hunting Not long ago I was out hunting. Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full textpapishyavpîish mit ni'ákunvarat the.autumn near.past I.went.hunting Last fall I went on a hunting trip. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full textimáankam xás mah'íitnihach xás ni'ákunvarat next.day then early.morning then I.went.hunting Next morning early I went hunting. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full textxás kunipêer nuu chími nuvyîihshipreevish chími nu'ákunvanveesh then they.told.him we soon we.will.go.out soon we.will.go.hunting Then they told him: "We are going out, we are going hunting." Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textxás vaa tá nu'ákunvar then that PERF we.hunted And we would go hunting. Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playxás vaa tá nu'ákunvar papúufich ímpaah then that PERF we.hunted the.deer trail And we were hunting the deer [from the] road. Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playxás upiip uumkun tée p kun'ákunvarat then he.said they PERF PAST they.went.hunting And he said, "They've gone hunting." Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full textpúufich u'ákunvareesh deer he.was.going.to.go.hunt.it They were going deer-hunting. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textxás púyava kunpákunvanva kúkuum then you.see they.went.hunting again Then they went hunting again. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textkúkuum vúra imáan kunpákunvanva again Intensive tomorrow they.went.hunting The next day they went hunting again (but were still unsuccessful). Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textyáas tá kunpákunvanva then PERF they.went.hunting Then they went hunting again. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textpúyava kúkuum vúra imáan tu'ákunvar you.see again Intensive tomorrow he.would.go.hunting He would go hunting again the next day. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full textpakári athkuritárahiv tá kun'ákunvanva when hunting.season PERF they.went.to.hunt When it was hunting season, they went hunting. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full textkári xás tá kunívyiihship tá kun'ákunvanva then then PERF they.left PERF they.went.hunting Then they went off, they went hunting. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text