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-aan Agentive
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lexicon ID #32 | revised May 16 2013
-aan • SUFF • Agentive
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ipasnáhvaanich káan úkrii.
Pygmy Owl lived there.Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
ipasnáhvaanich ukúphaanik.
Pygmy Owl did it.Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
xákaan chôora!
Let's go together!Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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xas pa'asiktávaansa káru áhup tá kuntúrar.
Then the women went out to fetch firewood.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
víri vaa mu'íffuth pirishkyâarim ta 'íp uum máruk,
kúkkuum kári vaa kunkúpha'anik peekxaréeyav,
atipimámvaan achvúun xákkaan kunváththêen'nik.
Then after Grizzly Bear was already up the hill, again the Ikxareyavs did it, Buzzard and Hookbill had a fight.Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
" iim vúra îin punêekyáreeshara?"
atipimámvaan achvúun úpeeranik.
"You are not going to kill me?" said Buzzard to Hookbill.Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
xás u'êechip xás ahíramak úyuunkuri pamuxváa,
achvúun atipimámvaan muxvâa ukimfíruraanik.
And he picked him up and held his head in the fireplace, Hookbill burnt Buzzard's hair off.Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
viri ta xánnahishich koovúra kuníkmuum achvúun,
atipimámvaan kunkoohímmach'va.
Then they all pitched on to Hookbill, they felt sorry for Buzzard.Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
yánava xákaan vúra teemúutaras.
Behold they were in a family way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
êem káru apurúvaan.
She was a doctor and sorcerer.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
imkánvaan
woman's name; Phoebe MadduxSource: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
asiktávaan
woman, femaleSource: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
pamupírish vúra pu'ivrárasurutihara,
sákriivsha pamúpsii,
ípam kunish pamupirish'ápsii,
xákaan u'ifshúrootihirak sákriivsha.
The leaves do not fall off, they are tough leaf-stemmed, thier leaves are like sinew, where the leaves grow off [from the stem] is tough.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
pay'ôok xákaan nuchúuphitih.
We are talking right here.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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pay'ôok pa'asiktávaan ukyâati paxuun.
Here the woman is cooking the acorn soup.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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pa'ápsuun káru pa'áan xákaan vúra yav.
The snake is as long as the rope. (The snake and the rope are both good)Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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Tá kunithvíripunih muchíshiih xákaan.
They're running down, the dog too.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Pay'ôok uum xákaan kun'íin pa'avansáxiich káru pachishiih.
In this one here they're both sitting, the boy and dog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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yáv uum imníshaan um?
Is he a good cook?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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oo, vúra uum táay vura uum pa'asiktávaansa lots of women, you know, up there in the reservation.
Oh and there were lots of women up there in the reservation.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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naa vúra ikyavíchvaan.
I'm a worker.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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vúra uum kâanimich pa'asiktávaan.
The lady is poor.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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ta'ítam tá nupimnîish nanitípah xákaan.
So we cooked, my brother and I.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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pananichishíh'anamahach itháan káruk nu'ípasroovat,
káan úkrii chishih'aneekyáavaan.
Once we took my little dog upriver, there was a veterinarian there.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
manâa naa mít káru nîinamich itíhaan áhup nukyâati,
pananitípa xákaan,
áhup núkpaakti.
Well, also when I was little, we were always gathering wood, my brother and I, we were chopping wood.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
cháva tá xánahishich yánava xákaan vúra tá kunímuutaraha.
Sure enough, in a little while they saw they were both pregnant.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
víri vaa kunkupítih,
pa'asiktávaansa kunxúti "
kíri nutururípan pa'áhup."
They were doing that, the women were trying to hook out the sticks.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich tutápkuup pa'asiktávaansa.
And Coyote took a liking to the women.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
"
ooo!"
pa'asiktávaansa kunpiip, "
ooo!
yáxa páykuuk kóo ahupyâamach uthivrúhuthunatih.
"Oh," the women said, "oh, look there, such a pretty stick is floating around.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chavúra kúkuum vaa káan umáh asiktávaansa astiip,
áhup kunikyáavanaatih.
Finally he saw women there on the bank again, they were gathering wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás yánava pa'ifápiitsha xákarari kun'íin poothivtapárahitihirak.
And he saw the girls sitting on each side where people were war-dancing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
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naa vúra yíiv ni'aramsîiprivti páy nanuxákararih."
"I come from far away, from the outside."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás
" koovúra paparishríhvaansa"
upíip
" ôok kiivyíhuki."
And he said, "All twiners, come here!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
pi'êep uum pa'áraar ithtítaansahanik.
Long ago the people were gamblers.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás kunipêer " atafâat íim araraxus'úmaan."
And they said to him, "Maybe you're a doctor."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás upiip " hãã naa araraxus'úmaan."
And he said, "Yes, I'm a doctor."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xakáaniich iinâak páxuus u'uumútih.
Just the two of them were indoors when he doctored.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
hínu páy uum upíkshaayvutih, putáktahara, pu'araraxus'úmaanhara.
There he was lying, he wasn't a doctor, he wasn't a shaman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy vúra pa'asiktávaan upiip " yáxa, ee! yáxa ithyáruk."
Then suddenly one woman said, "Look, oh look across-river!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás kúna kunpiip, " asiktávaan pamukun'átimnam máruk tá kunsánaan.
And next they said, "Women carry their burden-baskets uphill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
kári xás tá kunpávyiihship pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women leave for home.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
káan pihnêefich úkrii,
muyeeripáxvu xákaan kun'iin,
muhrôoha támit u'ívat.
Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
chôora nupxákaanpi payêem."
Let's go back together now."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam pa'asiktávaan uparatánmaahpa.
So then the woman turned back.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
áxak asiktâan kun'íinanik kustáaras ameekyáaraam.
Two women, sisters, once lived at ameekyáaraam (Ike's Falls).Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
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 -
ta'ítam kunífikaheen paxuntápan pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women gathered the acorns.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás upíkvip sáruk káan pa'asiktávaansa kun'íinirak.
Then he ran downhill to where the women lived.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kunpirúviish pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women came back down.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
xás vúra uum yâamach mu'asiktaván'aramah.
And her female child was pretty.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vikváan káru ithvóon.
She was a weaver, and industrious.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
íkiich nimáheesh pa'asiktávaan."
Maybe I'll see the woman."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
pa'asiktavan'îin kunipêer "
xáyfaat,
xáyfaat ivâaram."
The women told him, "Don't, don't go."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
imustihayêepsha káru akúnvaansa.
They were good-looking and (good) hunters.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás payáan'iiftihansa tá kunívyiihma káru pa'asiktávaansas.
And the young men and the women arrived.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
ayu'âach pa'asiktávaan uum yáan'iiftihansa.''
It's because the women are young."Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
u'aakrúprihtih pa'asiktávaan.
He locked arms with the women.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 -
yiimúsich úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra úhyiv "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Again he shouted, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás pa'asiktávaan uxús "
naa nixúti '
kin'áhachakutih.'"
And the woman thought, "I think he's holding out on us."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás kunthítiv,
sáruk úhyiivtih "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Then they heard him, he was shouting downhill, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vúrava kári úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
He was still shouting like that, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
pathufkírik muhrôoha xákaan kun'íinanik.
Owl and his wife lived together.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktâan uvôonsip.
Then the woman got up.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás káan askitávaan utápkuup.
He liked a woman there.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
xás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah,
tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan.
And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
yakún sôomvaan chími u'ípasukeesh."
He's going to bring home a new wife."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kári xás siit upiip, " aaníhich chími u'ípakeesh, sôomvaan u'ípasukeesh."
Then Mouse said, "Big brother is going to come back, he's going to bring home a new wife."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kári xás siit upiip, " naa íp nipasúpiichvat pasôomvaan ti'ípasuk.
Then Mouse said, "I revealed that you were bringing home a new wife.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
púyava tá kunimfipíshriihva paxus'úmaansa.
So the 'doctors' assembled.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
káru uum pa'asiktávaan atahári vúra kunikyáviichvutih,
ávaha kunikyáatih.
And the women were always working, they were gathering food.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás upêer pa'avansáxiich
" imáankam sáruk astíip pamíchaas xákaan ík kuyâarameesh ikxúrar.
And she told the boy, "Tomorrow evening you and your younger brother must go down to the river-bank.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás pamúchaas xákaan sáruk kunithvíripfak.
And he and his younger brother ran downhill.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xákaan vúra kuníkyeehiti poo'áveesh,
áxak vúra upátati paxuun
They both made for him what he was to eat, he ate two (servings of) acorn soup.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
ayu'âach pa'ifápiit tée p xákaan kunikvéeshrihat.
It is because he spent the night with the girl.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
akráa chámuxich xákaan kuníthtit.
Eel and Sucker gambled together.Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text -
ith'aranihrôoha xákaan kun'ásimtih.
He was sleeping with another's wife.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan káru uum tuvôonupuk.
The woman went out too.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava patóo kxáramha,
pa'asiktávaan tu'ípak.
And when it got dark, the woman returned home.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
vúra yáv pa'asiktávaan.
She was a good woman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava imáan tuvôonupuk,
pa'asiktávaan.
So the next day the woman went out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan tóo pvâaram.
Then the woman went back home.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás apsunmúnukich upiip, "
payaas'ára u'iiníshrihaak,
víri pa'asiktávaan vaa ukupítihaak,
ukitaxríharahitihaak,
xáat káru uxúti '
vúra pu'aapúnmeeshap,'
víri vaa vúra kun'áapunmeesh."
Then Racer said, "When Mankind comes into existence, when a woman does this, when she is unfaithful, even though she thinks they won't find out, they will find out like this."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
xás kári pa'asiktávaan kunxus,
" tîi vaa káan nusôomvan."
And the women thought, "Let's go offer ourselves in marriage there!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava uum pa'asiktávaansa yáas kunívyiihshiprimtih,
máh'iit.
Then the women started out, in the morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava kúkuum vúra kúmateech tá kunpavyíhuk pa'asiktávaansa.
Again later in the day the women came back.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kunipíti pa'asiktávaansa, " púya hûut kumá'ii peekxáram xás uvaaramôotih."
And the women said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás araramvanyupsítanach uxus, "
xáyfaat vaa nipiip, "
tóo piip, "
ípahak kích panimáahti pá'aax."
and Horsefly thought, "Let me not say it"; he said, "I find the blood only in trees."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
fatavéenaan kuníkyav.
They made a priest.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
xâatik payêem ikyávaan ka'íru."
And they said, "Let there be priestesses too, this time."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
"
káru imúsaan,
káru koopitxaaríhvaan káru kixáhaan."
"And an assistant priest, and priest's companions, and brush-burners.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
púyava koovúra tá kun'áraarahitih,
kixáhaan káru vúra imúsaan,
káru ikyávaan,
káru koopitxaaríhvaan.
And they were all (there), brush-burners and assistant priest, and priestesses, and priest's companions.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
ikxunanáhaanich kun'íin mukeechíkyav xákaan.
Evening Star lived with his sweetheart.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás upvâaram peekxuraráhaan.
And Evening Star left.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan uxús "
ii!
ninikeechíkyav.
And the woman thought, "Oh, my sweetheart!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
patupíkyaar poochiihvîichvuti kári xás peekxuraráhaan uxús "
ii!
tá nasáyriihva.
When she finished singing her love song, then Evening Star thought, "Oh, I'm lonesome!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
káruma ôok ithivthanéen'aachip xasík xákaan puráan kunipmáheesh.
The fact was, they were both going to see each other again here at the middle of the world.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
peekxuraráhaan pamukeechíkyav puráan tá kuníkfuukiraa.
Evening Star and his sweetheart (finally) clasped one another.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pa'asiktávaan "
payaas'ára u'iiníshrihaak víri xáat káru tá kun'íitshur,
víriva vúra upmáheesh paninipákuriha mûuk.
And the woman said, "When Mankind comes into existence, (a woman) may also become abandoned, (but) she will find (her sweetheart) again by means of my song.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
xás ikxuraráhaan poopkêevish páy nanu'ávahkam atayrámkaam
Then Evening Star was transformed into a big star in the sky.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
víri pooksahárahitih,
kuntákaamtih,
pa'asiktávaan,
pakâanimich,
poo'ûupvutih.
So they laughed, they ridiculed her, the woman, the poor one, as she dug roots.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
paninipákuri u'aapúnmahaak,
víriva vúra ávan uthiinátiheesh,
xáat asiktavankéem."
If she knows my song, she will have a husband, (though) she may be a homely woman."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
xákarari u'áaktak.
He put his hands on each side (of the door).Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás takráav xákarari kun'íxupkiish.
And they lay against his shoulder.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
áxak kunifyúkuti asiktávaansa kôokaninay.
Two women wandered around everywhere.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víri chími uptaxáraapsipreevish,
táma takráav xákarari kunpíkuuyva pamuhrôohas.
He was about to stride back, (when) his wives landed on his shoulders on either side.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
iknûumin veekxaréeyav itráhyar mutúnviivhanik,
ávansas káru yítha asiktávaan.
Burrill Peak Spirit had ten children, (nine) men and one woman.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip,
asaxêevar veekxaréeyav,
" xákaan chími kunímthaatveesh."
And they said, Baldy Peak Spirit (said), "Let's play shinny together!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás paniinamichtâapas iknûumin veekxaréeyav pamú'arama vaa vúra ukupa'ífaha,
pamútiik u'ákchaaktih,
xákarari pamútiik u'ákchaaktih.
And Burrill Peak Spirit's littlest child grew up this way, his hands were closed, both his hands were closed.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
muchíshii vúra xákaan kun'íifship.
He and his dog grew up together.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
asaxêevar veekxaréeyam mú'arama xákaan tá kun'îimasar.
He and Baldy Peak Spirit's child grabbed each other (preparatory to play).Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
yukún vaa xákaan u'iifshípreenik,
pamutákasar.
You see, he had grown up with that tossel.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
ta'ítam u'îimasaraheen asaxêevar veekxaréeyav xákaan.
So he grappled with Baldy Peak Spirit.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
víri akâay vúra xákaan kunvúunveesh."
Who will wrestle with him?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
ta'ítam uxúsanik peekpihantâapas, "
tîi xákaan núvuunvi."
So the strongest one thought, "Let me wrestle with him!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
ta'ítam uksáheen pamaruk'áraar,
uxus, "
íf nîinamich paxákaan nuvúunveesh."
And the giant laughed, he thought, "He's really small for us to wrestle together!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
kári xás asiktâan kinipéer
" chími shipnúkaam kiikvîiki."
And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
patapriha'asiktávaan kanimúsan."
Let me go see the woman at patapríhak (a part of Weitchpec?)!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan uyvéesh,
pakun'íinirak,
pa'asiktávaan.
He poured it there where the women were.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
asiktávaan mukeechíkyav xákaan vúra puxích puráan tá kuntápkuuputih.
A woman and her sweetheart loved each other very much.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan pamutipáhiivshas kunvîihirimkutih.
But the woman's brothers disliked (the man).Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
púyava xás patá kun'íshunva kári xás pa'asiktávaan kúuk u'uum.
So when they buried him (there), then the woman went there.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
víri vaa peepíkyaarahaak víri vaa imáheesh '
vaa káan asa'ípan úkrii atipimáamvaan.'
When you finish, you will see a buzzard sit there on top of a rock.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás asiktâan upéer, "
nuxákaanhi."
And she said to a woman, "Let's go together!"Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás kunmah,
pa'atipimáamvaan.
And they saw the buzzard.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'áharamuti pa'atipimáamvaan.
They were following the buzzard that way.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vaa vúra pa'atipimaamvan'îin kinpôonvuuk.
The buzzard brought them back.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
púyava pakun'ípak ôok kumeethívthaaneen vaa uum pakúphaanhanik póokupiti áraar utâanaxihitihirak.
So when they returned to this world, they are the ones who did as it is done in the land of the dead.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
chîinach asiktávaan ukrêenik.
A woman once lived at chîinach (upriver opposite Orleans).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
peechkáanviichvaanhanik pa'ávansa.
Once a man was a gambler.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
kunxákaanha máruk.
They went uphill together.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xás xákaan kunpiin.
And they lived together again.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
uum vúra ataháriish vúra kunmáahtih,
tá kunpiip, "
u'apurúvaanhitih."
People were always seeing (a certain woman), they said, "She's a devil."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás impáak úskaaksur pa'asiktávaan.
And the woman jumped off of the path.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
vaa káan asiktâan úkrii.
A (certain) woman lived there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
xás upíip pa'asiktávaan, "
xáyfaat ík ipasúpiichva.
And the woman said, "You mustn't reveal it.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
yícheech vúra kích kári muhrôoha xákaan.
Only one man and his wife were still (there).Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan upiip, "
chími kanthimnûupi."
And the woman said, "Let me roast it!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
hínupa vaa káan utnûuprihti yítha pa'apurúvaan.
There was a certain devil peeking through there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
yítha pa'apurúvaan úksah.
And a certain devil (accompanying the first one) laughed.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
kári xás ikxáram axmáy uthítiv,
axmáy uvôonfuruk pa'apurúvaan.
Then in the night suddenly she heard it, suddenly the devil came in.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás uskákuni pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman jumped down.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás pa'apurúvaan upvôonfuruk.
Then the devil came back in the house.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
púyava kári xás u'íipma pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman arrived back at her home.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
púyava vúra tá xára kári xás pa'apurúvaan umah.
So after a long time, then the devil found her.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
xás papeevapíthvaan upíip "
fâat kúna."
And the storekeeper said, "What else?"Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
píshiich pakun'áraarahiti pa'asiktávaansas ápkaas kun'íshumtih.
As they lived at first, the women scraped iris leaves.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás pa'asiktávaansas kuníhviithtih.
And the women cleaned (the fish).Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaansas uum kun'ífikvunaa xuntápan.
The women gathered acorns.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
kunipíti "
uum pupiykáreeshap pakáan asiktávaan uvúrayvutihaak."
People said they wouldn't catch (anything) if a woman was around there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
asiktávaan uum pukáan vúrayvutihara peemvírak.
A woman didn't go around the fishing platform there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan uumkun vúra âapun pakun'áraarahitih.
The women sat on the ground.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
hâari pufíchvaas upathrívahitih,
víriva káan pa'asiktávaansas kun'áraarahitih.
Sometimes a deerskin blanket was spread, and the women sat on that.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xákarari áxak pa'ávansas káru áachip áxak.
There were two men at each end and two in the middle.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
púyava xákaan vúra patá kunxús "
kíri nutâatsip."
Both (men) thought, "Let's toss it!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
púyava xás hâari xákaan vúra tá kunithyívish.
Sometimes both of them fell down.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
pa'aneekyávaan uum pírish pa'óohruuvtih káru hâari pirish'éepuum.
The sweating doctor used plants and sometimes plant roots.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
xás pa'aneekyávaan vúra kúnish ikxaréeyav.
And the doctor was kind of (like) an ikxaréeyav.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
kári koovúra tá nupávyiihraa peekxariya'áraar káru imúsaan.
We all came back up, (including) the priest and the assistant priest.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
xás kári koovúra tá kunpáatvunaa,
xás páahak tá kunvíitkar ithyáruk pafatavéenaan.
And everybody bathed, and they rowed the priest across-river in a boat.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pafatavéenaan poo'ípakahaak ikxúrar tóo pvíishrih,
xás vúra pa'áraar tá kun'íranva.
When the priest returned, evening was falling, and the people were coming to celebrate the world renewal.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
kári xás kúkuum fatavéenaan tuvâaram,
asaxêevar kúuk tu'uum.
And the priest went off again, he went to Baldy Peak.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
xás vaa ifuthanpimúsaan tuvâaram.
And the assistant priest went.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
ishrívaansas tá kunxúrihinaa,
yáas kun'áamtih.
The target-shooters got hungry, then they ate.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pafatavéenaan yáas u'ípak ikxúrar.
Then in the evening the priest returned.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
áxak pa'asiktávaansas tá kunikyávaanha.
Two women acted as priestesses.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
imáankam tóo pvâaram pafatavéenaan.
The next day, the priest went home.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaansas uum kuníshtuukvanaatih.
The women picked them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
asiktávaansas káru vúra ávansas koovúra kunthárufvunaatih.
All the men and women peeled them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
pa'arara'asiktávaan uum ishváak uthúkinhahitih.
The Indian women were tattooed on the chin.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
kuyráak usasipúniihva yítha achipyâach xás xákararih.
There were three stripes running down, one right in the middle and (two) on each side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
vúra páy nanuxákarari kích uum vaa kunkupítih.
Only ones outside of our country did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
xás mít vaa káan asiktávaan uhróot.
He hired a woman there.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
xás kári ukôoha pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman (from Katimin) quit.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
xás námpaan nuxákaanha.
Then I myself went with him.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
xás vaa káan nupíkva paasiktávaansas kóovan.
And the women there and I told stories.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan, úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
Now a woman is the one standing, she is pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan.
Now a woman is the one standing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan vaa vúra káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuuptih.
The woman is standing there like that, she is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
vaa vúra káan pa'asiktávaan uhyárih, víri vaa vúra úksuuptih.
The woman is standing like that, there she is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás musmus'asiktâan káan uhyárih, pírish u'áamtih.
A cow is standing there, she is eating grass.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káan asiktávaan uhyári yurástiim.
A woman is standing there on the seashore.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan utráamnihti pa'ásipak.
The woman is looking in the bowl.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan yiivári kúuk tu'íipma, tóo ktaamsip pa'ásip.
The woman goes away again, she carries off the bowl.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'ávansa muhrôo xákaan káan kun'iruvêehriv.
The man and his wife are standing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
ishkêeshak xákarari áxak ávansa kun'iruvêehriv.
Two men are standing on each side of a river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúna vúra payêem ápapkam asiktávaan yítha.
But now one woman is on one side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem uum pa'asiktávaan ôokukam.
Now the woman is on this side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás uum kunchúuphiti pa'ávansa xákaan.
She and the man are talking.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text