Ararahih'urípih
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hôoy where; somewhere

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1396 | revised Nov 07 2014

hôoy QW • where; somewhere

Derivatives (2)
hôoyva "somewhere"
hôoyvurava "somewhere or other"

Source: WB 385, p.334

  • hôoy iim. Where are you? [Reference: WB files]
  • kíri nu'áapunma hôoy kunmáahti. Let's find out where they were finding (the salmon). [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 004]


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  1. hôoy ti'aramsîiprin?
    Where are you coming from?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. xas kunpíip, "hôoy if."
    And they said, "Nonsense!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  3. yánava su hôoyvarihva xas áhup nikrúkukaa.
    I poked a stick in.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  4. kári vura nixúti kúkuum vura ikhich nimáhis táay hôoyvurava vaa kâan.
    I still think maybe I'll make a find again somewhere right there.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text
  5. xáyfaat uum vaa ipíti " you don't know," hôoy if ipíti puná'aapunmutihara.
    Don't say, [in English] "I don't know.” Say [in Karuk] "I don't know."
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. hôoy if imvárak xuun íktaamsipreevish.
    You can't pick up acorn soup in a plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  7. hôoy tá kutákir?
    Where are you all soaking it?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  8. xás kúkuum tá kunipêer: "hôoy tivâaram, pihnêefich?"
    Then they asked him again: "Where are you going, Coyote?"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  9. xás pihnêefich upíip, tá kunchúuphinaa, pa'avansáxiichas kóova tá kunchúuphinaa kóova pa'avansáxiichas, xás upíip: "hôoy mikun'ákah?"
    Then Coyote said, the boys talked with him, they talked to him, the boys talked with him, and he said: "Where is your father?"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  10. hôoy nanikâarim úkrii?"
    "Where does my sister-in-law through mourning live?"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  11. pu'áapúnmutihara hôoy vaa poovȃaramootih.
    She did not know where he kept going all the time.
    Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text
  12. kúna vúra vaa kun'aapúnmutihanik pa'áraar, hôoy vúrava pa'úhish pookyívishrihaak, vaa vúra íkiich u'ífeesh, kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra vaa.
    But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  13. hôoy tivâaram?
    Where are you going?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about fear and going places (LA-01) | read full text
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  14. hôoy pa'akvaat?
    Where is the raccoon?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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  15. hôoy uum pa'ikxáramkunish púsihich?
    Where is the black cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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  16. hôoy pamí'aramah?
    Where is your child?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  17. hôoy pamítaat?
    Where is your mother?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  18. hôoy pamipôor?
    Where are your pants?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  19. hôoy pami'áan?
    Where is your rope?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  20. hôoy uum pamu'áhup?
    Where is his stick?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  21. hôoy pananíchishiih?
    Where is my dog?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  22. hôoy pamichíshiih?
    Where's your dog?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  23. hôoy pamipûuvish?
    Where's your bag?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  24. hôoy pamipúsihich?
    Where is your cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  25. hôoy pamiputíruh?
    Where is your potato?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  26. hôoy tivâaram?
    Where are you going?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  27. hôoy ithîishriheesh?
    Where are you going to put it (one small thing)?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  28. hôoy ithárishriheesh?
    Where are you going put it (something heavy)?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  29. hôoy iiyêeshriheesh?
    Where are you going to put it (something flat)?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  30. iim hôoy i'aramsîiprimtih?
    Where are you coming from?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  31. hôoy tu'aramsîip?
    Where is he coming from?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  32. hôoy tá kun'aramsîipriv?
    Where are they coming from?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  33. hôoy iim péekrii?
    Where do you live?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  34. hôoy panákish?
    Where is the pig?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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  35. hôoy pananinákish?
    Where's my pig?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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  36. hôoy papúsihich?
    Where is the cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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  37. Xás tóo muustihinaa pa'avansáxiich káru ... Hôoy uum pachishíih?
    And he's looking at the boy and ... where's the dog?
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  38. hôoy ti'aramsîipriv?
    Where are you coming from?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  39. hôoy tivâaram?
    Where are you going?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  40. hôoy ivâarameesh?
    Where are you going to go?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  41. hôoyva vúra panivâarameesh.
    I'm going to go somewhere.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  42. hôoy pamiishxâar?
    Where is your fishing pole?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  43. hôoy pamíchnaat?
    Where is your rat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  44. hôoy pamu'ápsuun?
    Where is his snake?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  45. hôoy patarípaan?
    Where's the cup?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  46. hôoy pa'ápus?
    Where's the apple?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  47. hôoy uum patasákaam?
    Where is the big fence?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  48. hôoy peekrivrám'aaxkunish?
    Where's the red house?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  49. hôoy pananipúsihich?
    Where is my cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  50. hôoy pamisíkih?
    Where is your spoon?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  51. hôoy pasára?
    Where's the bread?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  52. káru hôoy akâayva 'îin kun kêemish kun'ákihanik, kéemish u'ávanik.
    "And somewhere, someone, they ... they fed him poison, he ate poison."
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  53. kári xás upiip, " hôoy imáahti peeshpuk."
    And he said, "Where do you find the money?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  54. kári xás kúkuum too xus, " hôoy íf ni'uumêesh."
    And again he thought, "I can't reach it."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  55. xás yítha upiip, " hôoy."
    And (the other) one said, "Where?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  56. xás upiip, " chími, êev, hôoy kích ahúp'anamahach.
    And (one) said, "Come on, dear, where is a little stick?
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  57. imáan máh'iit yáan hôoy usúpaahitih, púyava kunpávyiihma.
    The next morning it was just daylight here and there, then they went there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  58. vaa uum hôoy vúrava kanéeptaatripaavish."
    That way they will hook me out somewhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  59. xás upíip " hôoy vúra kumeethívthaaneen usnúrutih."
    And he said, "It's thundering somewhere in the country."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  60. yítha upíip " yahé hôoy pananíkrivkir."
    And one said, "Well, where's my chair?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  61. káru yítha upíip " hôoy pananipatúmkir."
    and one said, "Where's my pillow?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  62. " káru hôoy patanúpviitma, kíri nimah.
    "And where have we paddled to? I want to see!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  63. kári xás kunpiip, " hôoy kích imáheen áraar."
    And they said, "Where did you see a person?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  64. xás tá kunpatánvish " hôoy i'aramsîiprivtih."
    And they asked him, "Where do you come from?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  65. " vúra hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih, tá pukin'aapúnmara.
    "Where does he come from? We don't know.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  66. xás kunpíip " hôoy kích ára kumáheen, tóo kvíriprup."
    And they said, "Where have you seen a person? He ran downriver."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  67. hôoyva kúnish kunpakúriihvutih.
    Somewhere they were sort of singing.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  68. xás pihnêefich axmáy hôoyva ukpêehva " shúuuuuhuuuuu."
    And suddenly Coyote hollered somewhere, "Shuuuuuhuuuuu."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  69. kári xás kunpíip " pûuhara, hôoy íf vaa ikupheesh, itaharâan ipíhiroopithveesh."
    And they said, "No, you can't do that, you will (have to) dance around ten times!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  70. xás paaxíich upatánviishvunaa, " hôoy uumkun pa'ávansas."
    And he asked the children, "Where are the men?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  71. naa vúra puna'aapúnmutihara ' hôoy uum papihnêefich úkrii.'"
    I don't know where Coyote is."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  72. chavúra pumahára, hôoy poo'aramsîiprivtih.
    In the end he didn't find where it came from.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text
  73. hôoy íf akáray îin xuus i'éethtiheeshap.
    Nobody will take care of you.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  74. kári xás kunxús pa'asiktávaansas, " hôoy uum poo'aramsîiprivtihirak.
    Then the women thought, "Where is it that he comes from?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  75. hôoy íf âavahar u'ípakeesh."
    He won't come back alive."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  76. xás upiip, " hôoy uumkun pa'ávansas."
    And they said, "Where are the men?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  77. xás upiip, " hôoy páy tu'aramsîip pa'ifunihaxára."
    And he said, "Where did this long hair come from?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  78. pamu'îin hôoy ník úxaaktih.
    There was no sound of his falls.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text
  79. kári xás uum vúra hárivaheesh, á'iknêechhan hôoyva tuvâaram, sinmôovishar.
    So it would be sometimes, Duck Hawk went off somewhere, he was gone a long time.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text
  80. kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii.
    You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text
  81. hôoy íf yaxéek yaas'ara'îin kunxúseesh húut.'"
    Mankind won't think (about her) in any way.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  82. xás upíip " hôoy uum tátach."
    And they said, "Where's mama?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  83. 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
  84. naa ni'aapúnmuti pahóoy."
    I know where."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  85. xás kunpiip, " pûuhara, hôoy íf ikvípeesh."
    And they said, "No, you can't run."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  86. kári xás uxús páchishii, " hôoy íf vaa páy pánukupheesh."
    And Dog thought, "We can't do it like this."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  87. kári xás kunipéer, " hôoy imáhanik.
    And he was asked, "Where did you find it?
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  88. hôoy kích kusrípan.
    Where was Madrone?
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  89. ithéekxaram vúra hôoyva kunikvéesh.
    They spent the whole night somewhere.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  90. púyava yáan ník vúra hôoyva usúpaahitiheesh.
    Then it was just about to be dawn someplace.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
  91. hôoyva má' poomkaanvúrayvutih.
    She was gathering food (from bushes, such as berries) somewhere in the mountains.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
  92. xás kuníhyiivti hôoyva.
    And there was a shout somewhere.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text
  93. púyava kunípeentih, " hôoy iim imáahtih peepâanvutih."
    So they said to him, "How do you find what you paint your face with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text
  94. kári xás upiip, " naa ni'aapúnmuti ' pamihrôovas hôoy kun'iin.'"
    And he said, "I know where your wives are."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  95. xás uxus, " hôoy áta kuniyaarámootih, patóo kxurarahaak."
    And he thought, "I wonder where they always go when evening comes?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  96. hôoy íf nipásaseesh."
    I can't dress up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  97. xás upiip, " pûu, naa vúra pananípaa nîinamich, hôoy íf nuyâaheesh.
    And he said, "No, my boat is little, we won't fit.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  98. káan xás mah'íitnihach upapivankôoti pamusárum ishkêeshak hôoy kích tóo pthívruuhruprav.
    Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  99. máruk hôoyva ni'ípahoo, tá ná'aathva."
    I'm going uphill somewhere; I'm afraid."
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  100. axmáy xás pa'úuhyan hôoyva u'aramsîiprin.
    Suddenly a voice came from somewhere.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  101. kári xás upatanvâava, upiip, " hôoy vaa."
    And he inquired, he said, "Where is that one?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  102. kári xás upiip, " ishávaasich hôoy áta uvâaramaheen.
    And he said, "I wonder where little niece has gone?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  103. vaa uxúti pakúusrah hôoy tu'aramsîiprivtih.
    He's wondering where the sun comes from.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  104. kumáam vúra hôoy upíip poo'aramsîip tuvásip.
    He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  105. xás uxútih kíri vaa káan ni'uum, pakáan kúusrah hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih.
    He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  106. payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih.
    He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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