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íhuk to do the flower dance (puberty dance)
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lexicon ID #1593 | revised Apr 20 2014
íhuk • V • to do the flower dance (puberty dance)
| Derivation: | ih-uk |
| dance-to.here |
Derivatives (6)
íhuk "flower dance, girl's puberty ceremony"
íhukar "to go flower-dancing"
íhukar "flower dance song"
ihukûum "do the flower dance"
íhukvunaa "flower-dance"
íhukvunaa "to have a flower dance"
Source: WB 416.1, p.336
- mí'aramah tuyêeripha, káan xás kun'íhukti. Your child is having her first menses, they're having a puberty dance there. [Reference: KT 129.32]
- xás payêeripharas kunpiip, nuu chími nu'íhukeesh. And the pubescent girls said, "Let's do the flower dance!" [Reference: KT 145.3]
Sentence examples (14)
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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