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ih to dance
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lexicon ID #1525 | revised Nov 03 2005
ih • V • to dance
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Source: WB 416, p.336
- uxúti kíri ni'ih. He wants to dance. [Reference: KV]
- vúra vaa kun'íihti. They kept dancing that way. [Reference: WB 22: Old Man Turtle 016]
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xas papihnîich upíip,
"chími nu'íhukvunaa.
Then the old man said, "Let's have a puberty dance!Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"vúra nu'íhukvunaavish."
Then he said, "Indeed! We will have to dance!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas kun'íkyâasip pa'íhukvunaa.
Then they started to dance.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
aayâach kun'ixviphûunishti íp pa'úthvoonhitihat va'íhuk,
tá kun'ithyúruvarak,
pamútraax kich kun'áaphutih.
That was because they were mad at him because he had wanted to dance. They they dragged him down, they were just carrying him (by) the arms".Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich panámniik u'íhukaranik, uum masuh'árahanik pihnêefich.
Then Coyote went to attend a flower dance at Orleans, he was a Salmon River person, Coyote was.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
púyava káan xás tá kun'íhukvunaa.
Then they flower-danced there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
tá kun'íharuk.
They came to dance.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kunxus, " uknamxánahich chími nu'íhukanveesh."
They thought, "We'll go flower-dance at uknamxánahich."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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kun'íhukanveesh uknamxánahich.
They were going to flower-dance at 'uknamxanahich.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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ta'ítam kun'árihishriihvaheen pa'íhukar.
So they sang the flower-dance songs.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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kári xás umah,
yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
ta'ítam u'ihukûumaheen.
So he flower-danced.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás pa'á' kunívyiihma xás kunpíip
" kun'íhukarahitih."
And when they got up, then they said, "They're having a flower-dance."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
víri pa'avansáxiich uum áachip pakun'íihtih.
There were the boys dancing in the middle.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás tá kunímuusti pa'iihvúnaa.
And they watched the dance.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíip
" chími naa kan'íhi."
And Coyote said, "Let me dance!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
yakún uumkun yúruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih,
káru káruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih."
They dance to the downriver end of the world, and they dance to the upriver end of the world."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás kunpíip
" pa'avansáxiich káan tá kun'íihmahaak ík kári kupêethkeevish."
And they said, "When the boys dance to there, you people must pull them out."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás kári kun'íihvunaa.
Then they danced.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás káan pa'avansáxiich tá kun'íihma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
And the boys danced there to where the hole was.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
ayu'âach páy pasaamnúpahitihan chí kun'íihrupaavish.
It was because they were going to dance downriver that way the stream flows.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
víri tá kári pachí kun'íihrupaavish,
xás asaxvuhpihnîich tóo thvoonha.
It was time for them to dance down, and then Old Man Turtle wanted to.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
xás tá kun'íihvarak.
Then they danced down from upriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íihtih.
They kept dancing that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íihtih.
They kept dancing that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
vúra vaa áachip tá kun'íihvarak.
They danced down from upriver that way to the middle (of their course).Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
uum pa'asiktávaan vúra vaa kun'íihruputih.
The women kept dancing downriver that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
u'ihukárahitih veeshura'ípan pakuntâatathunatih."
They're having a puberty dance, they're tossing her around on the ends of their horns."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás káan u'íihtih,
u'íihtih.
And there he danced and danced.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás kunímuusti iv'ávahkam a' poo'íihtih.
And (Lizard) was looked at as he danced, up on the roof.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
yuuxmachmahánach vúra vaa u'íihtih.
Lizard was dancing like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
poopárihrishuk víri vaa yuuxmachmahánach iv'ávahkam poo'íihtih,
uthívtaaptih.
When (Lizard) came out, Lizard danced on the roof, he did a war dance.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
víri vaa kích upíti poo'íihtih,
" shakatíiyu'inaa híyoo.
He said only this as he danced, "shakatíiyu'inaa híyoo.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
chí kunívyiihshipreevish uknamxánahich,
káan chí kun'íhukvunaavish.
They were going to leave for 'uknamxánahich, they were going to have a flower dance there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Crane" (WB_KL-42) | read full text -
axmáy ík máruk ára u'íhuniheesh.
Suddenly a person was about to dance down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
tá kuntápkuup pakunímuustih, u'íihtih.
They liked him as they watched him, he was dancing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
xás kúkuum kunítraatih, kúkuum tu'íhithun.
And again they looked uphill, he was dancing down again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " púya, payêem ík vôohara mûuk ivúreesh, papay'ôok tu'íhithunahaak nunúthvaaykam."
And (one) said, "Say, this time we must jab him with a digging stick when he dances around here in front of us."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
xás púyava vúra tu'íhuni tá ûumukich.
And so he danced down close.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
kári xás víri vaa tupuxíchkaanva poo'íihtih, kûufan 'an 'an
'an."
And there he was exerting himself as he danced, (singing) "kûufan 'an 'an 'an."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
víri vaa kích upítih,
tupuxíchkaanva,
vúra tu'ih,
too máahrav:
That's all she would say, she's really dancing real hard, she's knowing things now:Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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