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-ar / -ara- Instrumental; Agentive
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lexicon ID #504 | revised Oct 31 2014
-ar / -ara- • SUFF • Instrumental; Agentive
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pi'êep kunipítih payupsíriharas uum vaa xás mukunfikríparas long.ago they.are.saying blind.people 3.SG so then their.sorters Long ago, they say, the blind people were their sorters. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | PlayHey vaa panimáharati naa káru Violet vaa pay Hey so I.copied.that 1sg. also Violet so this I copy that too, like Violet ... Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Playpavíkahar kêechasahiruva I couldn't do that the.weavers too.big.ones I couldn't do that If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Playváa vúra payváheem úthvuuyti pirishkaarim'áhasurar peekriripanpákurih so Intensive nowadays it.is.called grizzly.bear.driver-away the.Amekyaram.sweathouse.song It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textuhtatváraar tobacco.[coal].inserter.instrument sweathouse tobacco lighting stick Source: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full textnishxâareesh pananiishxâar I.will.go.fishing.with my.fishing.pole I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playpananiishxâar nishxâareesh payêem my.fishing.pole I.will.go.fishing.with now I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole now. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playpeekrupkáanvar nihrúuvti pa'as vaa nishxâareesh the.fork I.am.using.it . I.will.go.fishing.with I am going to go fishing with a fork. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playpeekxúrar púvaxay thivrúhish koovúra axupa'ithvutiharamúrax the.evening not.yet float.ashore all nothing.but.those.carrying.dressed.deer.meat.on.the.back When evening hadn't (even) floated down yet, they were all doing nothing but carrying dressed deer meat. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textpúyava pootáyiithharati yíiv vúra tá kun'aramsípriin kúnikvárishtih xáat káru vikakêemich you.see when.she.lashed.the.base.of.a.basket far Intensive PERF they.came.from they.buy.from.her may also bad.weaver So when she lashed the base of a basket with them, people came from far away, they bought from her, (though) she might be a poor weaver. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text