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ikrih- fish (with a set-net)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1965 | revised Nov 13 2014
ikrih- • V • fish (with a set-net)
Derivatives (10)
iknihaná'anamahach "a type of small fishnet"
ikríhak "on the fishing platform"
ikríhar "to go fishing"
ikríhar "to fish with"
ikríhar "fish trap"
ikríhraam "fishing platform"
ikríhroov "name of a fishery"
ikríihva "to fish with a set-net"
yuhikríhar "large fishnet for catching salmon and sturgeons"
yuhikrihara'urútvaap "poles for big net used to catch sturgeon"
Source: WB 485, p.338
Note: Bound stem, used only with suffixes.
Sentence examples (17)
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pihnêefich vaa káan mukríhraam pihneefthuf'ípan.
Coyote's fishery was there at the end of Wilder Gulch.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás káan atahári vúra ukrihankôotih.
He was always fishing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás ikríhak á' utháantak.
And he set it up on the fishery.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam úkriihvaheen pasípnuuk,
upakurîihvutih.
Then the storage basket fished, it was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
kâam kiimúsan póokriihvutihirak."
Go look upriver where he's fishing."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
yánava káan úkriihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
They saw him there fishing, he was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yúruk pakunpávyiihma tá kunpiip, "
uum vúra pihnêefich kâam úkriihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
And when they got back downriver, they said, "It's Coyote upriver fishing, he's singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kúkuum kunpimúsar,
xás ikríhak vúra úuth kun'uum.
So they went and looked again, and they went out on the fishery.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
uum pihnêefich pathivtaaptíhan,
pu'uumhára peekriihvútihan.
And they said, "It's Coyote who's dancing, it's not him that's fishing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
upíip "
imáan nikríhareesh."
(A man) said, "Tomorrow I'll go fishing."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
imáan kúkuum upikríhar.
The next day he went fishing again.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás kuméemaankam poopikríhar.
And it was the next day that he went fishing again.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
yánava káan ára úkriihvutih.
They saw a man fishing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás vaa káan kuníkriihva,
táay kuníykar pa'áama.
And they fished there, they caught a lot of fish.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
pa'áraar uum pa'áama ukupéekriihvahitih.
The Indians fished for salmon in a certain way.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
xás pamukun'ikríhar uum taskanatunvêechas ukyâarahitih.
And their fish-trap was made of little poles.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
púyava pakuníkriihvuti vaa káan kunkûuntako peemvirak'ípan.
So when they fished, they sat there on top of the fishing platform.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text