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vôonfuruk to enter a house

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6606 | revised Jan 14 2016

vôonfuruk • V • to enter a house

Literally: 'to crawl indoors'

Derivation:  vôor-fúruk
creep-indoors

Source: WB 563.2, p.395

Note: Used of Indian houses because of their low doors, and by extension of white men's houses also.

  • chími vôonfuruki, kûurish. Come on in and sit down! [Reference: KV]
  • xás iinâak kun'iruvôonfuruk. Then they went inside the living house. [Reference: TK 265.4]

Sentence examples (28)


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  1. xás    uvôonfuruk   
    then    he.went.inside   
    Then he went in.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text

  2. chavúra    tá    pâanpay    axmáy    pihnêefich    upvôonfuruk   
    finally    PERF    after.while    suddenly    coyote    he.came.back.inside   
    Then after a while once Coyote came back into the house.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text

  3. chavúra    pâanpay    iinâak    upvôonfuruk   
    finally    after.while    indoors    he.came.back.in   
    Then a little later on he came into the living house (from the sweathouse).
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  4. pachishíih    tóo    pvôonfuruk   
    the.dog    he.has    come.back.inside   
    The dog came back inside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  5. papúufich    îinaak    tuvôonfuruk   
    the.deer    indoors    it.has.come.inside   
    The deer came inside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  6. papúufich    îinaak    tuvôonfuruk   
    the.deer    indoors    it.has.come.inside   
    The deer came inside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  7. pachíshiih    iinâak    vôonfuruk   
    the.dog    indoors    enter.a.house   
    Put the dog in the house.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  8. pachínim    pa'ipíta    iinâak    uvôonfurukatih   
    the.skunk    when.it.was.yesterday    indoors    it.came.inside   
    There was a skunk inside the house yesterday.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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  9. iinâak    tuvôonfuruk   
    indoors    he.goes.inside   
    He is going inside the house.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  10. vôonfuruk   
    enter.a.house   
    Come in.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  11. íp    peevôonfuruk    íp    kúnish    vaa    ifuráthfiptih   
    PAST    when.you.entered.the.house    PAST    sort.of    that    you.were.cranky   
    It seemed like you were cranky when you came in.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  12. íp    poovôonfuruk    uksáahtih   
    PAST    when.she.came.in.the.house    she.was.laughing   
    When she came in the house she was laughing.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  13. uum    káru    poovôonfurukati    puyáv    ipmahóonkoonatihara   
    3.SG    also    when.she.was.coming.in    not.good    she.is.not.feeling   
    And when she came in she was not feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  14. kári    xás    iinâak    uvôonfuruk    ikmaháchraam   
    then    then    indoors    he.crawled.inside    sweathouse   
    Then he crawled into a sweathouse.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  15. xás    uvôonfuruk   
    then    he.crawled.inside   
    So he crawled inside.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  16. xás    pakéevniikich    upíip    víri    naa    chími    vôonfuruki   
    then    the.old.woman    she.said    so    1sg.    soon    come.in!   
    And the old woman said, "Well, come in.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  17. âanxus    uvôonfuruk   
    weasel    he.went.inside   
    Weasel went in the house.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  18. xás    pamú'arama    uvôonfuruk   
    then    her.child    she.came.in   
    And her child came in.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  19. kári    xás    axmáy    upvôonfuruk    pathufkírik   
    then    then    suddenly    he.came.in.again    the.great.horned.owl   
    And suddenly Owl came in again.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text

  20. kári    xás    poo'íipma    xás    upvôonfuruk    iinâak   
    then    then    when.he.returned    then    he.crawled.indoors.again    indoors   
    And when he got there, he crawled inside again.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text

  21. xás    u'íkihvuti    poopvôonfuruk    maath    póoktaamtih   
    then    she.was.grunting    as.she.came.back.into.the.house    heavy    that.she.was.carrying   
    And (Bear) was grunting as she came in, as she was carrying a heavy load.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  22. xás    kuniruvôonfuruk   
    then    they.went.inside   
    And they went in.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  23. xás    kunipêer    chími    vôonfuruki   
    then    they.told.him    soon    enter.the.house!   
    Then (the girls) told him, "Come in!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  24. xás    kunipêer    chími    vôonfuruki    iim    kahyuras'afishríhan   
    then    they.told.him    soon    enter.the.house!    2sg.    Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man   
    They told him, "Come in, you Klamath Lakes Young Man!
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  25. xás    iinâak    upvôonfuruk   
    then    indoors    he.went.back.inside   
    Then he went back inside.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  26. kári    xás    ikxáram    axmáy    uthítiv    axmáy    uvôonfuruk    pa'apurúvaan   
    then    then    night    suddenly    she.heard    suddenly    he.entered.the.house    the.devil   
    Then in the night suddenly she heard it, suddenly the devil came in.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

  27. kári    xás    pa'apurúvaan    upvôonfuruk   
    then    then    the.devil    he.came.back.into.the.house   
    Then the devil came back in the house.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

  28. xás    tóo    pvôonfuruk   
    then    she.had    crawl.back.indoors   
    And she came indoors again.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text