Ararahih'urípih
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vik to weave (esp. basketry; more specifically, to twine with two strands)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6545 | revised Jan 19 2016

vik V • to weave (esp. basketry; more specifically, to twine with two strands)

Derivatives (19; show derivatives)

Source: WB 1545, p.394

Note: Cf. árav 'to twine with three strands'. [chk] - 2nd ref field

  • urípih uvíikti. He's weaving a net. [Reference: KV]
  • tanixúripha panyúraramuuk, tanivik. I stripe it vertically with bear lily, I twine with two strands. [Reference: ??]


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  1. chími    talk about your weaving    fâatva    peevíikti    payêem   
    soon    talk about your weaving    something    that.you.are.weaving.it    now   
    Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  2. naa    vúra    payêem    pufâat    náviiktihara   
    1sg.    Intensive    now    nothing    I.am.not.weaving.it   
    I'm not weaving anything right now.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  3. no    páy    kích    uum    kunipíti    uvíiktih   
    no    this    only    3.SG    3pl(>3s)    you.are.weaving.it   
    People always say you're weaving.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  4. fâat    kích    ivíiktih   
    what    only    you.are.weaving.it   
    [To Madeline:] What are you weaving?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. íp    vúra    nik    nixútihat    kíri    nivik    ítam    pâanpay        na'ûuriha   
    PAST    Intensive    a.little    I.thought    I.wish    I.weave    earlier.today    after.while    PERF    I.get.lazy   
    I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. ítam    xás    nifíkrip    chími    nivíkeesh   
    earlier.today    then    I.sorted    soon    I.will.weave   
    I used to sort them when I was gonna weave.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  7. 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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  8. My mother used to tell me,    pafâat    ixuti    kíri    nivik    ipthíithi    otherwise you never will   
    My mother used to tell me,    something    you.are.thinking    want    I.weave    finish.it    otherwise you never will   
    My mother used to tell me, whatever you want to weave, finish it, otherwise you never will.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  9. vaa    kôok    panivíikti    arareemváram   
    so    kind    what.I.weave    plate.basket   
    That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  10. víri    manâa    vaa    yav    pavaa    ivíiktihaak   
    so    maybe    so    good    pavaa    that.you.weave   
    Well, it's good that you weave that.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  11. víri    manâa    hôoy if    áta    ishêeyti    kumá'ii    peevíikti   
    so    maybe    no.way    maybe    you.don't.know.how    because.of    you're.weaving   
    Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  12. paxiitíchas    kich    uumkun    vúra    táv    kun'ikyâatihanik    kunvíiktihanik    peethríhar    aanmûuk    aksanváhich    kár    axpaheekníkinach    káru    tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich    xás    vaa    yúpin        kunpúuhkhin   
    the.little.children    only    they    Intensive    visor    they.were.making.it.long.ago    they.were.weaving.it.long.ago    the.flower    with.string    flower.sp.    also    plant.sp.    also    bluebell.(dimin.)    then    that    forehead    PERF    they.put.on.a.headband   
    Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text
  13. naa    vúra    nixúti    yáv    panivíiktih   
    1sg.    Intensive    I.am.thinking    good    that.I.am.weaving   
    I hope I weave well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  14. xás    pasárum    víri    vaa    pa'ásip    kunvíiktih   
    then    the.roots.of.Jeffrey.pine    so    so    the.baskets    they.are.weaving.them   
    And they weave the baskets of pine roots.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  15. pamukun'ápxaan        kunvíikvunaa   
    their.caps    PERF    they.weaved   
    They were weaving their caps.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  16. xánpuut    káru    xánthiip    itheekxarámva    vúra    pákunvik   
    maul.oak.acorn    also    black.oak    night.after.night    Intensive    they.weaved   
    Maul Oak and Black Oak wove day and night.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  17. xás    xunyêep    upíip    naa    yáas    áachip    kóo    nivíiktih   
    then    tan.oak.tree    she.said    1sg.    only    middle    as.much.as    I.am.weaving   
    And Tan Oak said, "I've just woven it half-way."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  18. xás    upíip    pûu    vaa    vúra    níthxuuneesh    káruma    nik    áachip    kóo    tuvíkahitih   
    then    she.said    no    so    Intensive    I.will.wear.it.on.my.head    in.fact    a.little    middle    as.much.as    it.is.woven   
    And she said, "No, I'll wear it this way, (though) the fact is that it's only woven half-way.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  19. xás    upíip    uumkun    itheekxarámva    kunvíiktih   
    then    she.said    they    night.after.night    they.were.weaving   
    And she said, "They wove day and night.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  20. koovúra    kunvíikvunaa    yíthuk    chí    kunívyiihmeesh   
    all    they.weave    elsewhere    soon    they.will.go   
    They were all weaving, they were about to go to a different place.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  21. máh'iit    payáan    tusúpaahiti    vaa    kári    kunvíiktih   
    morning    when.recently    it.had.become.day    so    then    they.are.weaving   
    In the morning, when it is just dawn, they are weaving.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  22. yánava        vúra    háriva        kunpirukûurishriheen        kunipvíkaheen   
    visible    PERF    Intensive    sometime    PERF    they.sat.down.again    PERF    they.wove.again   
    He saw they had sat down again sometime, they were weaving again.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  23. kári    xás    pamukústaan    upéer    chími    árus    vîiki   
    then    then    his.sister    he.told    soon    seed.basket    weave!   
    And he told his sister, "Weave seed-baskets!
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  24. áxak    ík    peevíkeesh   
    two    must    you.will.weave   
    You must weave two (of them)."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  25. ta'ítam    uvíkaheen   
    so    she.wove   
    So she wove them.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  26. kári    xás    asiktâan    kinipéer    chími    shipnúkaam    kiikvîiki   
    then    then    woman    they.were.told    soon    big.storage.basket    you.weave   
    And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  27. kári    xás    kunvik   
    then    then    they.wove   
    So they wove.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  28. vúra    táayva    kunvíkroon    icháaniich   
    Intensive    several    they.wove.around    at.one.time   
    They wove several strands at one time.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  29. víri    vaa    kinípeeranik    hûutva    kóo    ithívthaaneen    uthaanêehaak    xáyfaat    ik    kúkuum    vúra    vaa    kukupeepvíkaha   
    so    so    they.told.them    somehow    as.much.as    land    it.exists    don't!    must    again    Intensive    so    you.must.not.weave.that.way   
    (But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  30. kári    xás    upiip    ivíkeesh    ík    átimnam   
    then    then    it.said    you.will.weave.it    must    pack-basket   
    And it said, "You must weave a burden basket.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  31. púyava    kári    xás    ta'ítam    uvíkaheen   
    you.see    then    I.wish    so    she.wove   
    And so then she wove.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  32. ta'ítam    uum    káru    uvíkaheen    káru    úkyav    payáfus   
    so    3.SG    also    she.wove    also    she.made.them    the.dresses   
    So she too wove and made the dresses.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  33. xás    vúra    uum    vikakêemich   
    then    Intensive    3.SG    bad.weaver   
    And she was a poor weaver.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  34. 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
  35. kári    xás    kunpiip    uum    mâasuum    uvíiktih    pahípriik   
    then    then    they.said    3.SG    up.creek    she.is.weaving    peppernut.tree.grove   
    And people said, "She's weaving in the pepperwood grove, up the creek.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  36. vaa    káan    uvikankôotih   
    so    there    she.always.goes.there.to.weave   
    She always goes there to weave."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  37. yánava    káan    uvíiktih   
    visible    there    she.was.weaving   
    He saw her weaving there.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  38. xás    urípi    kunvik   
    then    net    they.wove.them   
    And they wove nets.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text
  39. xás    pamukun'ápxaan    uum    uvíkahiti    pasárum    mûuk    káru    papanyúrar    káru    peekritápkir    káru    patíiptiip   
    then    their.hat    3.SG    it.was.woven    the.Jeffrey.pine.root    with.(by.means.of)    also    the.beargrass    also    the.five-finger.fern    also    the.chain.fern   
    And their hats were woven with the pine-roots and the bear-lily leaves and the five-finger fern and the chain fern.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text