Karuk Dictionary
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pufich'iykáraan deer-slayer
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lexicon ID #5095 | revised Aug 23 2005
pufich'iykáraan • N • deer-slayer
- kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas. We wish your husbands were such real deer-slayers! [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 010]
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chi váa kúuk kiik'uumi kíri váa káan ku'iin kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas soon that to.there you.guys.go.there I.wish that there you.guys.live I.wish that your.husband truly deer-slayers "Go over there to live! That's where we want you to live! You had better marry those boys, they are such good hunters!" Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text