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káakum some
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lexicon ID #3667 | revised Oct 30 2014
káakum • NUM • some
Derivative (1)
kakúmniik "in some places"
Source: WB 845, p.359
- kári xás káakum uumkun kun'ákunvuti púufich. And some of them are hunting deer. [Reference: KS 22. Maruk'áraar Gives Man Bread 005]
- kánpaatishrihi káakum paxúrish. Let me load up some of the shelled acorns. [Reference: WB T64.3]
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karu kâakum kumatupichas-háyaachas xakinivki'itráhyar chávura nimma koovura also some its.quite.small.ones seventy finally I.found.them all Then there were a lot of smaller ones, so that in the end I had seventy dollars in all. Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full texthâari víriva káakum kêe[chas] úruhsas sometime so some big.ones round.ones Sometimes, some of the big ones are round. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Playkáakum 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 textpeethríhar káru kunpathraamvútiihva payeeripáxvuuhsa ithasúpaa kunpathraamvútiihva káru káakum uumkun kuntávtiihva yúpin the.flower also they.[each].have.their.hair.wrapped the.adolescent.girls all.day they.[each].have.their.hair.wrapped also some they they.are.wearing.visors forehead Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full textxás kâakum tá kunpiip atafâat uum pihnêefich then some PERF they.said maybe 3.SG coyote And some of them said, "Maybe he's Coyote. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full textxás pa'ávansas káakum kunihmáraroov then the.men some they.ran.upriver And some of the men ran upriver. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full textxás káakum vaa káan kun'iruvêehriv poosúruruprinahitihirak then some so there they.were.standing where.the.hole.was.through And some of them were standing where the hole was (through which they had entered the sky). Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full textkáakum upthapákpak xás upaxyápithva some he.chewed.it.up then he.threw.it.around He chewed up some of it and threw it away. Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full textkánpaatishrihi káakum paxúrish let.me.carry.them some the.shelled.acorns Let me load up some of the shelled acorns! Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full textkáakum pa'éekoons táay vúra tá kun'ífik xás itahara'átimnam kóo tóo píishha some the.acorns much Intensive PERF they.gathered.them then ten.baskets as.much.as he.had soak.acorns Some people gathered a lot of acorns, and put as many as ten baskets to soak. Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full textkáru káakum mah'íitnihach kuntátapvunaati also some early.morning they.were.trapping And some men were trapping early in the morning. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full textkáru hâari tu'ísh káakum pa'ánav also sometime he.drank some the.medicine And sometimes (the patient) drank some of the medicine. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text