Ararahih'urípih
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akâay who?; anyone

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #234 | revised Nov 07 2014

akâay • PRON • who?; anyone Variant: akáray.

Derivative (1)
akâayva "anyone, someone, whoever"

Source: WB 52, p.316

Note: After pu- 'not,' the allomorphs akára and kára occur.

  • kunípaanik, akáray áta. They said, "We'll see who wins." [Reference: KS2.Turtle & Abalone 002]
  • chími akâay kích kiikpíkaan. Go fetch someone else! [Reference: DeA & F 3: Bluejay as Doctor 016]

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  1. akâay uum mi'áraar?
    Who are your relations?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. kári xás upíip, " púxay vúra húunxayheeshara, chími akâay kích kiikpíkaan!"
    Then he said, "I cannot do any more for him, you better fetch someone else!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  3. akâayva vaa urôovanik when I was packing, you know ..., vúra vaa káruk xás nimah.
    [talking about an unfinished basket] Somebody took it upriver when I was packing , you know, then I saw it upriver.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  4. akâay? akâay poo'iithvútihanik?
    Who? Who was packing it?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. vaa mukunikyáviichva, akâayva vúra tá kunsáruk pamukunsárip.
    That was their job, different people brought them their sticks.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. akâay paxuntápan ukítnaaktih?
    Who is cracking acorns?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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  7. akâay ikpúr utákirtih?
    Who is leaching acorn meal?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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  8. akâay uum panámnik uvâarameesh?
    Who's going to go to Orleans?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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  9. akâay pa'áama u'áamtih?
    Who's eating the salmon?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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  10. akâay u'ávaheen?
    Who ate it?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  11. akâay vaa káan úkrii pa'ikrívkir.
    There is someone sitting there in the chair.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  12. akâay vaa káan úkreenik pi'êep?
    Who lived there long ago?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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  13. akâay sáruk tu'árihfak?
    Who walked down the hill?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  14. akâay sáruk tóo árihfakuheen ipit?
    Who walked down the hill yesterday?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  15. akâay iim mi'áraaras?
    Who are your relatives?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  16. akâay mi'áraaras?
    Who are your relatives?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  17. akâay tu'áhoo?
    Who is arriving?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  18. akâay vaa tóo kúupha?
    Who did that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  19. akâay pami'áraaras?
    Who are your relatives?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  20. akâay múthyur?
    Whose car?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  21. akâay tóo knáknak?
    Who is knocking?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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  22. akâay ukyâanik vaa pa'ápxaan?
    Who made your hat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  23. akâay uum pami'ávan?
    Who is your husband?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  24. 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

  25. íkiich káru vúra mutípa káru muxúkam káru vúra akâay vúra pamu'áraar.
    Maybe too it would be his brother or his uncle or any relative of his.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text

  26. kári xás upiip, achiimuuchpihnîich, " akâay tutháfip naníxraat.
    Then Old Man Lizard said, "Who ate up my gooseberries?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  27. xás uthítiv, akâayva upakurîihvutih.
    And he heard it, someone was singing.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  28. '' naa vúra kóo yáv pa'akâayva kumayáan'iiftihan.''
    "I'm just as good as any young man."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text

  29. kári xás upiip, " akâay tutáayvaar panani'íin."
    And he said, "Who spoiled my falls?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

  30. kári xás upiip, " akâay kích vúra ipshansîipreevishan pamu'ípih."
    And he said, "Who is going to carry away her bones?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

  31. kári xás kunpiip, " akâay uum páxuus êethtiheeshan."
    And they said, "Who will take care of it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  32. víri akâay vúra xákaan kunvúunveesh."
    Who will wrestle with him?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  33. púyava vúra vaa uthiináti papáthraam, xás kôokinay vúra u'ápiv, akâay áta mu'ífunih.
    So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text

  34. xás kári upiip, " chími akâay kích vúra káru kiikpíkaan.
    And she said, "Go get somebody else, too!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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