Ararahih'urípih
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kúna in addition, in turn; but

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3978 | revised Apr 21 2005

kúna PCL • in addition, in turn; but

Derivatives (2)
yíthakuneek "at various places"
yitheekúna "the next one"

Source: WB 919, p.363

  • kúna peeyuuphâak pukinpávyiihmeeshara. But if you open your eyes, we won't get back. [Reference: WB T3.153]
  • tâak yíth kuna. Give me another one. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 394]


Sentence examples (68)

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  1. xas    pasáruk    nipitfákutih    víri    kúna    su    upárihkaa    pihneefích'anamahich   
    then    downhill    I.am.looking.away.downhill    so    in.addition    inside    it.runs.inside    coyote.pup   
    I looked back just in time to see a coyote pup running back into the log.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  2. yánava    kári    vúra        kári    xas    vaa    kúna    nithyúrurupuk    táma    ikrívki    papihnêefichtunvêechas   
    visible    then    Intensive    inside    then    then    so    in.addition    I.drag.it.out    then    six    the.little.coyotes   
    And there was one more still inside. Then I pulled out that one too. There they were, six little coyotes!
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  3. viri    kúna    vúra    ithyárukirukam    kumavîitkir    chími    ukfúkuvravish   
    so    in.addition    Intensive    on.other.side.of.river    its.ridge    soon    he.will.climb.over   
    He was about to climb over the ridge on the other side of the creek.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  4. ta'ítam    kúkuum    ni'aaksúraheen    chímiva    súrukam    kúna    nipásip    tama    uskákavraa   
    so    again    I.shot.at.him    soon    under    in.addition    I.shoot.    then    he.jumps.over.the.ridge   
    I shot under, and he jumped over the ridge.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  5. kári    xás    vúup    kúna    nivúsur   
    then    then    neck    in.addition    I.cut.it.off   
    Then, in addition, I cut off his neck.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  6. yíth    kúna        nikyâasip    tuupichasyâach   
    other    in.addition    PERF    you.start.it    really.small.ones   
    I start another one, with smaller sticks.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  7. fátaak    vúra        nipáchish    yítha    kúna    nikyâasip   
    somewhere    Intensive    PERF    I.throw.it.down    one    in.addition    I.start.it   
    I just throw it down somewhere, I start another one.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  8. xas    yúruk    kuna    utápichrup   
    then    downriver    in.addition    he.slipped.downriver   
    Then he slipped in downriver direction.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  9. xas    káruk    kuna    utápichroov   
    then    upriver    in.addition    he.slipped.upriver   
    Then he slipped in upriver direction.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  10. xas    sáruk    kuna    utápichfak   
    then    downhill    in.addition    he.slipped.downhill   
    Then he slipped in downslope direction.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  11. tîi    pay    kich    xas    kumatêeshich    kuna    kanpútyiinkachi   
    let...    this    only    then    still.more    in.addition    let.me.defecate.on.it   
    Let me do a little bit more of job on it."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  12. ée    aaf    kuna    upákat   
    oh!    excrement    in.addition    it.tastes.like   
    "Oh, it tastes like manure."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  13. xás    vaa    kúna    kunpáxeep   
    then    that    in.addition    they.won.it.from.him   
    And they won it from him.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text
  14. kúna    úum    pahôotah    yâak    nu'ípakahaak    hínupa    tapu'ára    íinara   
    in.addition    3.SG    if.late    good.place    we.come.back    surprise    has.not.people    not.exist   
    If we came back late to the good place, humankind would not exist.
    Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text
  15. yíth    kúna    u'árihish   
    other    in.addition    she.started.to.sing   
    Then she sang another song.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  16. vaa    vúra    púrith    umússahiti    kúna    vúra    axvíththirar    umússahiti    pachishihpúrith    uxraháthkaay    pappírish    káru    vúra    axvíththirarkunish   
    so    Intensive    huckleberry    it.is.looking.like.it    in.addition    Intensive    dirty    it.is.looking.like.it    the.dog.huckleberry    sour    the.leaves    also    Intensive    dirty-like   
    They look like huckleberries, but the dog huckleberries are dirty looking, they are sour, the leaves also are dirty looking.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text
  17. kúna    vúra    patapasihêeraha    uum    kúnish    axváhahar    tíikyan    ár    uxváhahiti    patu'áffishahaak    patapasihêeraha   
    in.addition    Intensive    the.real.tobacco    3.SG    sort.of    having.been.made.sticky    in.the.hand    person    it.makes.it.sticky    when.one.touches.it    the.real.tobacco   
    But the real tobacco is pithy, it makes a person's hands sticky when one touches it, the real tobacco does.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text
  18. kúna    vúra    vaa    kun'aapúnmutihanik    pa'áraar    hôoy    vúrava    pa'úhish    pookyívishrihaak    vaa    vúra    íkiich    u'ífeesh    kun'aapúnmutihanik    vúra    vaa   
    in.addition    Intensive    so    they.had.been.knowing.it.long.ago    the.people    where    just    the.seed    if.it.falls.down    so    Intensive    maybe    it.will.grow    they.had.been.knowing.it.long.ago    Intensive    that   
    But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  19. kúna    vúra    mít    puhári    úhish    ipshâanmutihaphat    pa'úhish    u'ífeesh   
    in.addition    Intensive    near.past    never    seed    they.took.them.back    that.seed    it.will.grow   
    But They Never Packed Seeds Home
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text
  20. naa    ipshûunkinich    kúna    pananitípa    uum    vâaram   
    1sg.    low    in.addition    my.brother    3.SG    long   
    My brother is taller than me. (I'm short, but my brother is tall.)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  21. kúna    vúra    pa'ararakéevriikshas    pa'ararapihnîichas    pananikáruk    va'araréefyiivshas    koovúra    neepsháravrik   
    in.addition    Intensive    the.old.Indian.women    the.old.Indian.men    my.upriver    its.Indian.friends    all    they.helped.me   
    But the Karuk old women, the Karuk old men, my Karuk friends, they all helped me.
    Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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  22. kúna    vúra    kúkuum    ôok        ni'uum    pananífyiivshas    nimúsarukti    kári    vúra    pakáruk    váhi    ni'aapúnmiikti   
    in.addition    Intensive    again    here    PERF    I.arrived    my.friends    I.am.visiting.them    then    Intensive    the.upriver    its.language    I.am.learning.it.from.them   
    But I've come back here again, I'm visiting my friends, and I'm still learning the Karuk language.
    Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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  23. kúna    vúra    xáyfaat    ík    iyúupha   
    in.addition    Intensive    don't!    must    you.open.your.eyes   
    But you mustn't open your eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  24. chímiva    vaa    kúna    ukúupha    íshaha    úxrah   
    soon    so    in.addition    he.did.it    water    he.thirsted.for.it   
    Soon he did this also, he got thirsty.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  25. kúna    vúra    pu'astíipich    na'ísheeshara   
    in.addition    Intensive    not.by.the.bank    I.will.not.drink.it   
    But I won't drink by the bank.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  26. ith'áraan    ník    kúna    tóo    pvôoruvrath    kunithyivúniihvutih   
    each.person    a.little    in.addition    he.had    come.back.into.the.sweathouse    they.fell.down   
    (As) each person crawled in, they fell down.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  27. kúna    vúra    xáyfaat    iyúupha   
    in.addition    Intensive    don't!    you.open.your.eyes   
    But don't open your eyes."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  28. kúna    peeyuuphâak    pukinpávyiihmeeshara   
    in.addition    if.you.open.your.eyes    we.will.not.go.back.there   
    But if you open your eyes (before), we won't get there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  29. kúna    vúra    i'asimchákeesh    ík    xáyfaat    ík    itxâarihva   
    in.addition    Intensive    you.will.close.your.eyes    must    don't!    must    you.open.your.eyes   
    But you must close your eyes, you mustn't open them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  30. xás    patishanihyûum    ukvíriprup    víri    kúna    kâam    pa'îin    kun'áharamuti        kunihmáravarak   
    then    when.downriver.from.tishániik    he.ran.downriver    so    in.addition    little.upriver    the.ones.that    they.were.following.him    PERF    they.ran.downriver   
    And when he ran downriver from tishániik, the ones following him were running down just upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  31. tîi    naa    kúna    kan'árihishrih    paninipákurih   
    let...    1sg.    in.addition    let.me.sing    my.song   
    Let me sing my song now."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  32. xás    pihnêefich    kúna    u'árihish    haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa   
    then    coyote    in.addition    he.sang    haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa   
    So Coyote sang, "haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  33. xás    pamusípnuuk    uum    ipshûunkinich    kúna    vúra    tinihyâach    káan    u'uuchnímach   
    then    his.storage.basket    3.SG    low    in.addition    Intensive    quite.wide    there    it.was.squatting   
    And his storage basket was short, but it was sort of wide, it was squatting there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  34. kári    xás    upíip    chími    man    kúna    vúra    xáyfaat    ík    i'ûurih   
    then    then    she.said    soon    why...    in.addition    Intensive    don't!    must    you.get.tired   
    And they said, "All right, but you mustn't get tired."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  35. ápap    kúna    pamútraax    kuníshpaatsur   
    one.side    in.addition    his.arm    they.broke.it.off   
    They pulled off his arm on the other side.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  36. xás    kári    uum    patóo    kfuuyshur    yítha    kúna    tu'éeh   
    then    then    3.SG    when.he.had    be.tired    one    in.addition    he.had.given.it.to.him   
    And when he got tired, he gave it to another one.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  37. xás    víri    kúna    kumâam    kunihmárafak    pakah'árahsas   
    then    so    in.addition    just.upslope    they.ran.down.from.uphill    the.upriver.people   
    And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  38. xás    axmáy    vúra    máruk    kúna    utápichraa   
    then    suddenly    Intensive    uphill    in.addition    he.slips.downriver   
    And suddenly he slipped upriver.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
  39. ithyáruk    kúna    úpviitrooveesh    uthívruuhrooveesh    káru    káruk    uvuunôovahiti    pa'íshaha   
    across    in.addition    it.will.paddle.upstream    it.will.float.upriver    also    upriver    it.flows.upstream    the.water   
    They would travel back upstream on the other side, they would float upstream also, the water was flowing upstream.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text
  40. kári    xás    kúna    kunpiip    asiktávaan    pamukun'átimnam    máruk        kunsánaan   
    then    then    in.addition    they.say    woman    their.burden.basket    uphill    PERF    they.carry.uphill   
    And next they said, "Women carry their burden-baskets uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text
  41. kúna    vúra    kúnish        arákaas   
    in.addition    Intensive    sort.of    PERF    old.man   
    But he's sort of old.'"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  42. 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
  43. kúna    vúra    pamukrívraam    vaa    vúra    umúsahiti    panunukrívraam    koovúra    pootâayhiti    iinâak    vaa    vúra    umúsahiti    ôok    iinâak    pootâayhitih   
    in.addition    Intensive    his.house    that    Intensive    it.looks.like    our.house    all    that.they.are.many    indoors    that    Intensive    it.looks.like    here    indoors    that.they.are.many   
    "But his house looks just like our house, everything that is inside looks just like what is inside here.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  44. kúna    vúra    páykuuk    yíiv    áhoon    payôok    xáyfaat    i'áhoo    peempaheepshûunkinich    kâarim    ikupheesh   
    in.addition    Intensive    over.there    far    go.travel    right.here    don't!    you.go    the.short.road    bad    you.will.do   
    But go by the far way yonder, don't travel (by the way) right here, on the short road, you'll do badly.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  45. âanxus    kúna    u'árihish    keechxâach    tíiptiip    áahrishuk    keechxâach    tíiptiip    áahrishuk   
    weasel    in.addition    he.sang    widow.(old)    Woodwardia.fern    áahrishuk    widow.(old)    Woodwardia.fern    áahrishuk   
    Weasel sang in turn, "keechxâach tíiptiip áahrishuk, keechxâach tíiptiip áahrishuk."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  46. ápap    kúna    úsyuunkiv   
    one.side    in.addition    she.pulled.off   
    She pulled off (the earring) on the other side.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text
  47. vaa    kúna    kumûuk    úktir   
    so    in.addition    with.it    she.hit   
    She hit at him with it in turn.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text
  48. kúna    nuu    yaas'arará'uuthkam    kích    nu'irukúunpiithvutiheesh   
    in.addition    we    in.front.of.rich.people    only    we.will.sit.around   
    But we will be sitting around only in front of rich people."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  49. xás    payítha    kúna    uxús    níkfuukiraa   
    then    the.one    in.addition    he.thought    I.grab.it   
    And he thought, "I'm grabbing the other one."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  50. pamuhrôoha    kúna    úkfuukiraa   
    his.wife    in.addition    he.grabbed.her   
    He grabbed his wife in turn.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  51. kúna    uum    vaa    vúra    káan    úksuusur   
    in.addition    3.SG    so    Intensive    there    he.swooped.down   
    He, in turn, swooped down there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  52. kúna    naa    naa    káru    paninitúnviiv    páy nanusúruk    kúuk        nupávyiihma   
    in.addition    1sg.    1sg.    also    my.children    underground    to    PERF    we.go.back.to   
    But I, I and my children, we are going underground.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  53. kári    xás    mahnûuvanach    kúna    kunpíkav   
    then    then    chipmunk    in.addition    they.get   
    Then in turn they summoned Chipmunk.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text
  54. xás    pa'avansáxiich    vúra    uum    uxráratih    kúna    vúra    u'íchunvuti    pooxráratih   
    then    the.boy    Intensive    3.SG    he.was.crying    in.addition    Intensive    he.was.hiding    when.he.was.crying   
    And the boy was crying, but he hid when he cried.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  55. víri    kúna    káruk    ukvíripvarak   
    so    in.addition    upriver    she.ran.down.from.upriver   
    She in her turn was running down from upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  56. víri    kúna    kukâam    tóo    kvíripvarak   
    so    in.addition    a.little.ways.upriver.from.there    she.had    run.down.from.upriver   
    (Bear) in turn was running down from close upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  57. kári    xás    úkpaatrav    pamúpsiih    aax    kúna    u'ínihnamnihach   
    then    then    she.broke.it.in.two    her.leg    blood    in.addition    it.dribbled.into.it   
    And she broke her leg, but (only) blood dribbled in.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  58. yiimúsich    kúna    uum    táma    upikyívunih   
    little.ways.off    in.addition    3.SG    then    it.fell.back.down   
    But it fell down again just a little ways off.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  59. kúna    chámuxich    uum    vúra    ípihar   
    in.addition    sucker    3.SG    Intensive    bony   
    But Sucker is bony.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text
  60. kári    xás    paachvíiv    kúna    kunikyâavarihva   
    then    then    the.fire    in.addition    the.try   
    And the birds tried in turn.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text
  61. káan    kúna    pamukun'aktinakírak    vaa    káru    vúra    pu'aapúnmutihara   
    there    in.addition    their.handrests    so    also    Intensive    it.didn't.know   
    The grasping stones there (at the doorway) didn't know either.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  62.     yúruk    ithivthaneen'ípan    kúna    úkuuyva    patákasar   
    visible    downriver    at.end.of.world    in.addition    it.lands    the.tossel   
    He saw the tossel land in turn at the downriver end of the world.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  63. kári    xás    vaa    kúna        kin'ákih    ipchimákananach   
    then    then    so    in.addition    PERF    they.gave.them    handkerchief   
    Then in addition they gave them handkerchiefs.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text
  64. xás    papeevapíthvaan    upíip    fâat    kúna   
    then    the.storekeeper    he.says    what    in.addition   
    And the storekeeper said, "What else?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text
  65. fátaak    kúna    tóo    sriv   
    somewhere    in.addition    he.has    target-shooting   
    They did target-shooting someplace.
    Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text
  66. imáankam    xumvaroovyúrukam    kúna    kunishríveesh   
    next.day    on.a.height.downriver.from.xumvároov    in.addition    they.would.shoot.at.targets   
    The next day they shot at targets on a height downriver from xumvároov.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text
  67. púyava    panipkárahaak    payêem    káruk    kúna    ni'árihroovish    niptakníhareesh   
    you.see    when.I.go.back.across.river    now    upriver    in.addition    I.will.go.upriver    I.will.go.drive.back   
    When I go back across-river now, I'll go upriver, I'll go drive back.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text
  68. kúna    vúra    payêem    ápapkam    asiktávaan    yítha   
    in.addition    Intensive    now    at.one.side    woman    one   
    But now one woman is on one side.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text