Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Karuk Dictionary

by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).

New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency

Search Index

váasip / vaasíprih- to rise up

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6402 | revised Oct 31 2014

váasip / vaasíprih- • V • to rise up

  • chími axmáy peemfír súrukam uvaasíprinanik. Pretty soon the heat rose up from under them. (pl. action) [Reference: KS42. Rabbit and Snow 015]

Sentence examples (4)


Display mode: sentence | word | word components

  1. mâam    patusúpaaha    maruk    too    trâa    tuvásip   
    uphill    when.it.had.become.day    uphill    he.PERF    look.upward    it.rose   
    When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play

  2. kumáam    vúra    hôoy    upíip    poo'aramsîip    tuvásip   
    uphill.from    Intensive    where    he.said    where.it.starts.out    it.rose   
    He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play

  3. yée    yáxa    ithyáruk    xás    uvásip    pakúusrah   
    well    look!    across    then    it.was.rising.up    the.sun   
    There was the sun coming up from across (the next hill).
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play

  4. kúkuum    ithyáruk    xás    tuváasip    pakúusrah   
    again    across    then    it.rose    the.sun   
    Then the sun rose across from him again.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play