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hínupa indicates something surprising or unexpected
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1383 | revised May 25 2005
hínupa • PCL • indicates something surprising or unexpected
Derivative (1)
hínupay "surprisingly, unexpectedly"
Source: WB 381.1, p.334
Note: No lengthening of -n-. Equiv. to hínupay.
- káruma naa hínupa kich. So I am the one (showing that he did not know this before). [Reference: JPH ethno ?:200]
- xás uxúti, tîi matêe kóomahich kan'ífapvi paxathímtas, hínupa chími u'ífapveesh. And (Coyote) thought, "I'm going to pick up a few of the roasted grasshoppers," and he started to pick them up. [Reference: WB T3.35]
Sentence examples (44)
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hínupa yee u'apunkôoti pamahnûuvanach.
That one kept poisoning Chipmunk.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás hinupáy uvíshtaanti sunyithih'ásar.
Because he liked chestnut mush.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
hínupa tá kuníhmaruk.
They were the ones that were following him (they were already on the roof).Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
hínupa vúra uum vaa tóo pthívruhvarak.
He floated down the river.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hínupa pihnêefich áxak vúra axiich tóo kyéehinaa.
The Coyote had made two babies for them.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hínupay tóo kfúukiraa pakeechxâach.
And he caught hold of the shave-head (widow).Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hínupay kúkuum úuth tá kunpáathkar kúkuum.
And then they threw the Coyote into the river again.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
kúna úum pahôotah yâak nu'ípakahaak,
hínupa tapu'ára íinara.
If we came back late to the good place, humankind would not exist.Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
" hínupa uum u'iimníhvutih."
[Then the woman said] “He was in love [was staying away with a girl].”Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
hínupa chími u'ífapveesh.
He was going to pick them up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy pamu'afupchúrax poo'iinkútih.
There it was his anus burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy íp pa'axváha mûuk upsívshaapat hinupáy vaa poo'iinkútih.
There it was the pitch he had sealed it with that was burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás kári ta'ítam "
chími kankúniihki,"
hínupa páy tóo kfíripriv.
And then (he said), "Let me shoot (one)," but he missed.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
hínupa áfup kunpávyiihrishukti poo'áamtih.
There they were coming out of his buttocks as he ate.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
ta'ítam "
yée naa hínupa páy uum vúra pihnêefich payûum uthívtaaptih.
So (they said), "Well, that's Coyote who is dancing downriver!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
hínupa ípat.
They were does.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás hínupa páy ára tu'íinish.
And there Mankind came into existence.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
hínu páy uum upíkshaayvutih, putáktahara, pu'araraxus'úmaanhara.
There he was lying, he wasn't a doctor, he wasn't a shaman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
hínu páy uum ithyáruk tóo kvíriproov, káruma uum kunxútih " tóo síinvar."
There he ran upriverward across-river; the fact was, they thought he had drowned.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
káan hínupa áama kun'áamtih."
They're eating salmon there!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " tá hínupa utáayvaar papihnêefich.
And they said, "There Coyote has spoiled it.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
hínu páy ikreemyaha'úru póopeenti "
iktûunihi."
There it was eggs of the wind that she told him to take down.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás úxrar papihnîich,
hínupa mú'aramah.
And the old man cried, it was his child.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
víri póo'av,
hínupa vúra tutháfip,
xás ífuth xás úpxuuspa.
When he ate it, he devoured it (all), and (only) afterwards did he realize it.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
hínupa vúra kin'áhachakutih.
He's holding out on us.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
hínupa ník tu'áharamunaa.
He was following them.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
hínupa vúra uum u'apunkôonaatih, kachakâach uum u'apunkôonaatih.
There she was bewitching them, Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa uum kachakáach u'apunkôonaatih.
There Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa akvíishich hôoyva pufích'anamahach tóo pêethuk.
There Wildcat had brought a little deer from somewhere.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
hínupa papirishkâarim poo'arihvárakvutih.
There it was Grizzly Bear that was coming down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hínu páy chí kunchúphiichveesh.
There they were going to chat.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
chavúra kun'áapunma, hínupa êeth, hínupa uxúti, " tá taay, kíri pácheech ni'av."
Finally they found out, there it was Slug, there he thought, "There's a lot, let me eat it by myself!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
púyava hínu páy uum vírusur,
víri vaa kumá'ii pátaay úmkaanvutih.
So there she was a bear, that's why she gathered (so) much.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
kári xás hínupa chantírih.
And there it was Tick.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
hínupa chantirih'îin sú' patá kunvôonkurih,
vaa kúth pookpaksúrooti pamúsiish.
There it was Tick that crawled into him, that's why he cut off his penis.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
vaa páy hínupa uum pookupítiheesh."
And they said, "That's the way (Mankind) will do it."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
hínu páy kunimuskíranik,
poopvakirîihvutih.
They had admired him, when he was dancing in front.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
hínupa achvuun.
There it was dog salmon.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
hínu páy vúra if.
Sure enough, it was true.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
hínupa vaa káan utnûuprihti yítha pa'apurúvaan.
There was a certain devil peeking through there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
hínupa yúpyaach tu'ákithtir.
There she threw it smack in his eye.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
hínupa páy uum vaa ukupavêenahiti atahári.
There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text