Ararahih'urípih
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ívur / ívun- to cry for, to mourn for

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lexicon ID #3479 | revised Oct 31 2014

ívur / ívun- • V • to cry for, to mourn for

Source: WB 799, p.356

  • pathakan'ávak takunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan. Their dresses were all tattered up above the knees with the tears that they cried for Klamath Lakes Young Man. [Reference: WB T51.35]
  • vaa kích pooxáxanaati, pakun'ívunti. They were all weeping, crying for him. [Reference: TK 70.25]

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  1. táay    nik    tá    kunchífich    vúra    pu'ixraratihara    váa    xás    u'ívur    pamúkiit    muyáfus   
    much    a.little    PERF    they.won    Intensive    he.didn't.cry    that    then    he.cried.for    his.grandmother    her.dress   
    They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. víri    váa    vúra    payváhiim    kári    u'ívunti    pakunpáxeepanik    pamúkiit    muyáfus   
    so    so    Intensive    nowadays    then    he.is.crying    they.won.it.from.him    his.grandmother    her.dress   
    He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  3. víri    vaa    kunkupitih    pathakan'ávak    tá    kunthataktakúraan    pamukunyáfus    pamukunyupastáran    mûuk    pakun'ívunti    kahyuras'afishríhan   
    so    so    they.were.doing.it    above.the.knee    PERF    they.were.tattered    their.dresses    their.tears    with.(by.means.of)    that.they.were.crying.for.him    Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man   
    They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text