Ararahih'urípih
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-ma / -mu to, toward

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4131 | revised Oct 31 2014

-ma / -mu SUFF • to, toward

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Note: Alternant of -va (-vu). Combination with -va 'pl. suffix' is -moo.


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    1. vaa    vúr    upifyîimmuti    pa'avansa'ávahkamvari    tu'íffahaak   
      so    Intensive    it.is.growing.far.toward.(something)    towards.the.top.of.the.man    when.it.has.grown   
      The highest it ever grows is higher than man.
      Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
    2. iinâak    tóo    kxipma    pa'achviiv   
      indoors    he.has    flies.toward    the.bird   
      The bird is flying into the house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
      Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
    3. xáyfaat    tóo    'ikxipma    iinâak   
      don't!    he.has    flies.toward    indoors   
      It shouldn't fly into the house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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    4. naa    iinâak    níkxipmeesh    mikrívraam   
      1sg.    indoors    I.will.fly    your.house   
      I am going to fly into your house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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    5. hûuka    tóo    kxipma    pa'achviiv   
      to.where    it.has    fly.towards    the.bird   
      To where did the bird fly?
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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    6. yakún    uumkun    yúruk    ithivthaneen'ípan    kun'íhmootih    káru    káruk    ithivthaneen'ípan    kun'íhmootih   
      you.see    they    downriver    end.of.the.world    they.dance.to    also    upriver    end.of.the.world    they.dance.to   
      They dance to the downriver end of the world, and they dance to the upriver end of the world."
      Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
    7. xás    kunpíip    pa'avansáxiich    káan        kun'íihmahaak    ík    kári    kupêethkeevish   
      then    they.said    the.boys    there    PERF    when.they.dance.to    must    then    you.will.pull.them.out   
      And they said, "When the boys dance to there, you people must pull them out."
      Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
    8. xás    káan    pa'avansáxiich        kun'íihma    poosúruruprinahitihirak   
      then    there    the.boys    PERF    they.danced.to    where.the.hole.was.through   
      And the boys danced there to where the hole was.
      Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
    9. xás    peekmaháchraam    kúuk    u'árihma   
      then    the.sweathouse    to    she.ran.to   
      Then she ran to the sweathouse.
      Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
    10. váa    kúuk    ukvíripma    pa'ípa    unhíshriihvat    pa'áthiith   
      so    to.there    she.ran.toward    Where.recent.past    she.tied.down    the.hazel.branches   
      She ran there where she had tied the hazel branches.
      Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
    11. xás    yáas    máruk    tuyshípreek    kunívyiihma   
      then    then    uphill    on.the.mountain    they.went   
      And then they went up on the mountain.
      Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text