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xakitráhyar / xakitahara- twenty
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lexicon ID #6775 | revised Oct 31 2014
xakitráhyar / xakitahara- • NUM • twenty
Literally: 'two tens'
| Derivation: | áxak itráhyar |
| two ten |
Source: WB 217.4, p.327
Note: Shortened form of axakitráhyar / axakitahara-.
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pi'êep paniyáan'iiftihanhaak pa'ôok káruk veethívthaaneen pishîich ni'úumhaak papanámniik pishîich ni'úumhaak naa vúra xakitrahyar káru yítha hárinay kích tá níkrii long.ago when.I.was.a.young.man when.here upriver its.country first I.arrived when.Orleans first I.arrived 1sg. Intensive twenty also one year only PERF I.stay Long ago, when I was young, when I first came to Karuk country, when I first came to Orleans, I was only 21 years old. Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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