Ararahih'urípih
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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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    1. 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 | Play
    2. Hey    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 | Play
    3. pavíkahar    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
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    4. váa    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 text
    5. uhtatváraar   
      tobacco.[coal].inserter.instrument   
      sweathouse tobacco lighting stick
      Source: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text
    6. nishxâareesh    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
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    7. pananiishxâar    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 | Play
    8. peekrupkáanvar    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
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    9. peekxúrar    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 text
    10. púyava    pootáyiithharati    yíiv    vúra        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