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lexicon ID #4086 | revised Oct 31 2014
kúupha / kúuphi- • V • to do
Variant kupi (lexicon ID #7809): Used with the durative suffix -ti(h)
Derivative (1)
kupíti "to be doing"
Source: WB 926, p.363
Note: Irregular tense forms: ukúphaanik 'he once did it' (ancient tense, G822.3); ukúphaat 'he did it (past tense, G534); ukúpheen 'he had done it' (anterior tense, G822.2); ukuphêesh 'he will do it' (future tense, G822.1); ukupíti 'he's doing it' (durative, G757). All forms of this verb are often unaccented when at the end of a sentence (cf. TK 53.28).
- páy uum kuuphi. Do it this way! [Reference: KV]
- pikváhahirak káru vúra vookúphaanik axraas. In the myth time, Gopher did the same thing. [Reference: TK 66.15]
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xás nixúti vaa páy kip Violet ukupíti the whole thing vaa too sáankuri púxay vúra fikríiptihara then I.thought so this just Violet she.is.doing.it the whole thing so she.does put.them.into.water not.yet Intensive she.doesn't.sort.them.out And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out." Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Playpuxáy vúra vaa nakupéeshara paViolet ukupiti not.yet Intensive so I.do.not.do.it NOMZ she.does.it I can't do it like Violet does. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Playkoovúra pananívik vaa ukupítih all my.weaving so it's.that.way It's that way with all my weaving. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playxás uumkun váa vúra kích kunkupítihanik pakunpakurîihvanaatihanik pa'ávansas pakunpakurîihvanaatihanik ikriripan'ikmaháchraam then they so Intensive only they.were.doing they.sang the.men they.sang Amekyaram.sweathouse All they did was sing songs, the men, they used to sing in Amekyaram sweathouse. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textxás vúra uumkun hitíhaan pakaan kunivyíihmutihanik peekxaréeyav váa kumá'ii pakun'úuhyanatihanik hûut áta pakunkupítiheesh yaas'ára then Intensive they always there they.went. the.First.People so because.of they.were.talking. how maybe they.will.do rich.person The First People went in there all the time, since they were talking over what humans were going to do. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textpa'áraar tupakurîihvahaak ikriripanpákurih márukninay váa xás vúra ukvíiptih payváheem váa ukupítih the.person when.he.or.she.sings Amekyaram.sweathouse.song uphill.anywhere so then Intensive he.runs nowadays so he.does.it Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textkáruma vookúpiti poo'áhootih in.fact he.was.doing.it.that.way he.was.walking He was walking, that was what he was doing. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textxas uum vúra váa kich ukupítihanik póothtiitihanik then 3.SG Intensive so only he.was.doing.long.ago that.he.was.gambling And all that he used to do was to gamble. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textuum vúra vookupitti' patóo kxáramha kári tóo pchanchákkar káru patusúpaaha kári kyúkkuum tu'êetchúrar patusúpaaha' tuchánchaaksurar patusúpaaha' 3.SG Intensive he.was.doing.that.way when.it.was be.night then he.did repeatedly.go.to.close.the.roof-hatch also when.it.became.day then again he.went.to.take.it.off when.it.became.day he.went.to.close.the.roof-hatch when.it.became.day He [Coyote] was doing that way, was closing evenings the living-house roof hole and mornings opened it up, when morning came, opened it when morning came. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full textuum vúra vaa hitíhaan ukupítti' 3.SG Intensive so always he.was.doing That was his job. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full textáankunish sú' usasípiithva áachip áankunish u'ishipváraahiti koovúra vookupíti pamupírish áachip áankunish u'ishipváraahitih string-like inside it.swirls.around middle string-like it.runs.in.through all it.was.doing.it.that.way its.foliage middle string-like it.runs.through They have little threads in them, with a filament running down the middle; they are all that way, with a filament running down that way. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full textfâat vaa vúra vaa pávaa kupítihan man'áta axraas what that Intensive that that is.doing maybe gopher It is something that is doing that, maybe a gopher. Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full textvúra fâatva vaa vúra pávaa kupítihan sú' ithivthaneensúruk usanpîithvutih Intensive something so Intensive that is.doing inside under.ground it.is.carrying.things.around Something is doing that, is packing it around down under the ground. Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full textpahûut pakunkupítihanik xáas vúra kúnish ikxáyxaytihaphanik the.way that.they.did.it.long.ago almost Intensive sort.of . How they would say that [the ground] was sort of cultivated Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full textxâatik vaa ukupítih it's.better so it.is.doing Let it do that." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textxáyfaat vaa ukupítih don't! so it.is.doing Let it not do that. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás vaa ukupíti payêem tá pu'áhootihara patur then then so it.is.doing now PERF it.doesn't.walk the.basket-load So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás pihnêefich uxús púxay vúra vaa kupítiheeshara then then coyote he.thinks not.yet Intensive that won't.be.doing And Coyote thought, "They can't do that." Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full textkoovúra mímyaahti vaa ikupítiheesh fátaak á' ikûuntakoovish all your.life so you.will.be.doing somewhere above you.will.sit.on.it All your life you will be doing that, you will sit on something above. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full textpúyava xás paaxíich upêer pamútaat úma kachakâach vaa ukupítih kachakáach uyveeshrîihvuti paxuun you.see then the.child she.told.her her.mother emphatic(?) bluejay that she.is.doing bluejay she.is.pouring.it.out the.acorn.soup So the child told its mother, "Blue Jay is doing that, Blue Jay is pouring the acorn soup down." Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full textkári xás upiip víri hûut ikupítih pirishkâarim íf tá nitápkuup then then she.said so how you.are.doing.it grizzly truly PERF I.like.it And Grizzly said, "How do you do it? I really like it!" Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full textpurafâat vúra káru kupítiheeshara nothing Intensive also won't.be.doing You won't be doing anything, either." Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full textvíri vaa ukupitih tusaríshriihva pakóo kuma'ávaha so that she.was.doing she.was.putting.down all kinds.of.food She was doing this, she was bringing in all kinds of food. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full textvaa kumá'ii pavaa ukupítih ikxáram xás póomkaanvutih that because.of that she.was.doing night then that.she.was.gathering.from.plants That's why she did that, she gathered food in the evening. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full textâapun úkrii pávaa ukupitih on.the.ground she.sits thus she.does She sat on the floor as she did that. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full textpayêem uum tá koo tá púvaa kinkupítihara now 3.SG PERF all PERF not.that we.aren't.doing.it Now that's all over, we can't do that. Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full textvúra páy nanuxákarari kích uum vaa kunkupítih Intensive country.outside only 3.SG so they.did Only ones outside of our country did that. Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text