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saamvároo creek
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5217 | revised Jul 22 2014
saamvároo • N • creek
Derivative (1)
samvaróoninay "??"
Source: WB 1220, p.377
Note: Locative is saamvárook (DeA&F 06.1).
- payêem vúra ni'isheesh pasaamvároo nimáhaak. Now I'll drink when I see a creek. [Reference: WB 01: Coyote's Journey 024]
- kári xás yanava kúkuum káan íshaha úxaakti, usaamvároohiti. And he saw again the water sounding there, there was a creek. [Reference: WB 01: Coyote's Journey 050]
See sav- 'to flow'
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ithâan mit masúruk saamváruk níshxaaytihat once near.past up.a.creek at.a.creek I.was.fishing.with.hook.and.line Once I went up the creek, fishing with hook and line. Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full textxás masúruk saamváruk nikvêesh then up.a.creek at.the.creek I.camp I made camp up the creek. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full textsaamvároo ithyárukirukam súva as úxaakti itharípriik vúra hôoyvarihva creek on.other.side.of.river listen! rock it.is.making.a.noise fir.forest Intensive somewhere.or.other On the other side of the creek I could hear the noise of rocks somewhere in a fir thicket. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full textpúyava tóo mah pasaamvároo you.see he.had see the.creek Then he saw the creek. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkári xás uxus payêem vúra ni'ísheesh pasaamvároo nimahaak then then he.thought now Intensive I.will.drink when.a.creek I.see And he thought, "Now I'll drink when I see a creek. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkári xás yánava pa'íshaha pasaamvároo úxaaktih then then visible the.water the.creek it.was.making.noise Then he saw the water, the creek was sounding. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkári xás poo'úum yánava tupivaxráheen pasaamvároo then then when.he.arrived visible it.had.dried.up the.creek And when he arrived he saw the creek had dried up. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkári xás yánava kúkuum káan íshaha úxaaktih usaamvároohitih then then visible again there water it.was.making.noise there.was.a.creek And he saw again the water sounding there, there was a creek. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkári xás kúkuum uchunvákir pasaamvároo then then again he.sneaked.up.on.it the.creek And again he sneaked up on the creek. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textkêech saamvaróokaam big big.creek It was big, a big creek. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full textyanéekva pasaamvároo uvúrunihtih visible the.creek it.was.flowing.downhill There was a creek flowing down. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full textpayêem panimáhaak pasaamvároo paninívaas kúuk nipaathméesh now when.I.see.it the.creek my.blanket to.there I.will.throw.it.toward.it "Now when I see a creek, I'll throw my blanket at it. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full textxás poomáh pasaamvároo ta'ítam kúuk upaathmáheen then when.he.saw.it the.creek so to.there he.threw.it.toward.it And when he saw the creek, then he threw (the blanket) at it. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full textsaamvárook aratváraf kích i'áamtiheesh in.creeks black.mud only you.will.be.eating.it You'll be eating nothing but mud in the creeks Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full textsaamvaróotiim aratváraf u'áamtih creek.edge black.mud he.is.eating.it He eats mud on the edge of creeks. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text