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-kaam big, large
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3668 | revised Nov 17 2014
-kaam • ADJ • big, large
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Source: WB 846, p.359
Note: Plural -kaamsa. Bound stem; occurs only in combinations, such as asákaam 'big rock'. The corresponding independent form is kêech, plural kêechas.
- xavish'úhraam uum vúra puvaaramákaamhara. An arrowwood pipe is not very long. [Reference: TK 158.34]
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hûut kích pa'ishkêesh?
How was the river?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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xas áhkaam kun'íkyav.
And they built a big fire.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
kári xás xuskáamhara mûuk nitátararish.
I held him down with my gun.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
púyava kári xas kúkuum kêechich vúra nipárupkurih.
Good. I kept on and made the hole large enough.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
itha'ithvákaam u'árihish
It made a big load.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
kâan xas kêechas péeshpuk cháavura áxxak nimma.
And right there I found two big gold nuggets.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
yánava káan utháaniv kêeshichas vêeshur.
There he lay, a big buck.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
hâari víriva káakum kêe[chas] úruhsas
Sometimes, some of the big ones are round.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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pavíkahar kêechasahiruva,
I couldn't do that.
If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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But my weavers,
uum kêechashiruva.
But my weavers, they're too big.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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manâa puxutihara xáy kêechas nihruv.
Well, you shouldn't try to use big ones.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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ta'ítam upátumkuriheen peeshkêeshak.
Then he was drinking with his mouth to the water in the river.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
kêechas vúra patakâakaa.
The quails are big.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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pakêechas vúra tá kuníkxiipshur.
The big ones flew away.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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hûut kích peeshkéesh?
How's the river?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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yáv umúsahiti pa'ishkéesh.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh vúra yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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axvíthirar peeshkéesh.
The river is dirty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh tu'uh.
The river is rising.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh tupiváxrah.
The river is drying up.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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xás uxuti kunish yíim nîinamich papúufich, xás póo'uum xás vúra uum pufíchkaam.
And he thought the deer was small, but when he got there, it was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vúra uum vaa káan xás uupíipha vúra uum kêech papúufich uum, vúra uum máath.
So [when he got] there, he said? the deer was really big, it was really heavy.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vaa vúra uum kêech káru.
And it was really big.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vúra vaa kêech papúufich.
It was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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" vúra uum kêech papúufich.
"It was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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asákaamsa kaan xás vaa á' tá nukfukúraa.
We used to climb those big rocks out there.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vaa káan kêechas vúra páramva pa'íshaha.
We had to heat the water there.
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oo, vúra uum ikyáakaam.
Oh, it was hard.
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pukêechhara.
It is not big.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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peeshkeesh hûut kích?
How is the river?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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xayfáat iim vishvánkaam.
Don't get a big belly.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh tupiváxrah.
The river has dried up [i.e. it is shallow].Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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vúra úum puxích tu'úh,
pa'ishkêesh.
The river has risen a lot [i.e. it is deep].Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh vúra úum puxích tu'uh.
The river has risen a lot.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh vúra puxích tu'uh.
The river has risen a lot.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh u'úuhtih.
The river is rising.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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yáv vúra yâamach payupsítanach,
xás vúra uum pakêech úkyav,
xás vúra uum imusakêem.
She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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hôoy uum patasákaam?
Where is the big fence?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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ishkêeshak tanutárivrip,
máruk tanukvíripraa.
We dipped it up at the river (for laundry), we ran uphill.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
sáruk peeshkêesh uvuunváraktih.
Downhill the river was flowing downriverward.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kêech,
saamvaróokaam.
It was big, a big creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa sáruk uvuunváraktih peeshkéesh.
Downhill the river was flowing downriverward like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
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xás uxus, "
chími vaa kan'îishi peeshkéesh."
Oh, he thought, "Let me drink from the river!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás ishkéesh'aachip u'uum.
And he got to the middle of the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
vúra puna'ísheeshara ishkéesh'aas."
And he thought, "I won't drink river water."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
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vúra puna'ísheeshara ishkéesh'aas."
"I won't drink river water."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri úuth ishkêeshak tu'ahirímkaanva.
There were trees falling out into the river.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
xâatik vúra ni'ish,
peeshkéesh'aas.
And he thought, "Let me drink the river water.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra ishkéesh'aachip xasík ni'ísheesh."
I'll drink in the middle of the river.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás ishkéesh'aachip ta'ítam ukúkuriheen.
And in the middle of the river he stooped down to the water.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás vaa káan tuyshipréekaam úkrii.
And a big mountain sat there.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás úuth upiytúykaanva páyuux,
uknamxánahich mú'uuthkam,
víri vaa kumá'ii pakêech usirishkírahitih.
And he kicked the dirt out in the river, out from uknamxánahich, that's why there's a big bar (there).Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás yánava tuthivtaparákaamha.
And he saw there was a big war dance.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíip "
thúfkaam vúra vúrunihi nani'ífuth."
So Coyote said, "Let a big creek flow down behind me!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yurúkthuuf pookvíripma xás "
nani'ífuth thúfkaam kam'árihish."
And when he ran to Bluff Creek, then (he said) "Let it become a big creek behind me!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pa'îin kun'áharamuti xára xás kunithyárukha,
ayu'âach ishahákaam.
And those following him were a long time crossing, because there was a lot of water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás ishkêeshak úskaakurih,
xás úkpuuhrin.
And he jumped in the river, and he swam across.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich vúra uum sípnukaam tóo thárish pakáan umáhyaaneesh.
And Coyote put a big storage basket down where they were to put it in.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás vúra patu'iinkáyaachha xás tée imnakákaam.
And when (the bark) had burned well, then there was a big coal.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás sáruk ishkeesh'ípanich ukrívruuhma.
And he rolled downhill to the edge of the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás paxanchíifich u'iipkúri ishkêeshak.
So Frog (took the fire in his mouth and) dived in the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás payeeripáxvu tóo kêechha,
xás yâamach tu'íifship.
And the girl got big, and she grew up pretty.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xâatik vúra yárarahi,
iim tée kêechha.
You should get married, you've gotten big.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
vúra yítha kéech.
There's one real big one.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
vaa kíri ni'av,
pakéech."
Let me eat that one, the big one!"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
chími kanikyav,
xuskáamhar."
And he thought, "Let me make a bow."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kunipêer "
vaa káan kúniihki mufithíhkaam mupîimich,
vaa káan pamúthvaay utháaniv."
And they told him, "Shoot him there by his big toe, his heart lies there."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
víri kún amvákaam.
There was a big salmon (in the net).Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra amvákaam úykar.
Again he caught a big salmon.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás póo'uum,
víri kún amvákaam tóo thyúruripaa.
And when she arrived, there he had pulled out a big salmon.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás pa'avansaxichákaam utníshuk vasasúruk.
And the big boy was peeking out from under the blanket.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás ukyívivraa,
ishkêesh úkyiimkurih.
And she fell over, she fell into the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás kaanvári kunihmárava,
yánava ukrámkaam u'íithra.
Then they ran there, they saw a big lake lying.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás káan ás utháaniv,
kéech.
And a rock lay there, a big one.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás umá
" káan ishkéeshtiim kun'iin."
And he saw that they were there on the edge of the river.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
víriva kaanvári tá nipitvâamnuk peeshkêesh usaamvárak.
I look down over (the bank) there where the river flows down from upstream.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
tá nipitkúrihti peeshkêesh usaamvárak.
I look again into the water as the river flows down from upstream.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
pa'áama káan vúra kunpaxyanípaneesh peeshkêesh poosaamvárak.
The salmon will overflow the river there as it flows down from upstream.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | 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 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 -
hûut ník vúra panikupeepmáhaheesh paninikeechíkyav."
How will I ever see my sweetheart again?Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
vaa xasík vúra panikupeepmáhaheesh paninikeechíkyav."
That way I'll see my sweetheart again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
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ii!
ninikeechíkyav,
mít tá nupáxviiphat.
"Oh, my sweetheart! we quarreled.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
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ninikeechíkyav,
tá nasáyriihva.
Oh, my sweetheart, I am lonesome!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
ayukîi ninikeechíkyav.
Hello, my sweetheart!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 -
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 -
xás ta'ítam peeshkêesh upuhyîimahitih.
The river was at the high-water mark.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | 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 -
ishkêeshak uthiivkúrih.
He put it in the river.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 -
káan xás mah'íitnihach upapivankôoti pamusárum ishkêeshak hôoy kích tóo pthívruuhruprav.
Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
pâanpay vúra tá kêech pa'avansáxiich.
After a while the boy (living with his kidnappers) got big.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
yána vúra kêech tu'uh.
He saw that it had risen high.Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
xás ishkêeshak imvír kuníkyav.
And they made fisheries in the river.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás áhkaam tóo kyav.
And they made a big fire.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás asípkaam tumáhyaan pa'éekoons.
And they put the acorns in a big soup-basket.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
ishkêeshak kunvêehkurihvuti patáaskar.
The poles were stuck into the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
púyava îikam áhkaam tá kuníkyav.
So they made a big fire outdoors.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
kári xás víri pamukunxúskaamhar víriva áak tá kunsímku ánam múuk.
Then they heated their bows by the fire, with medicine.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text -
xás asákaamsa mûuk tá kuniyáakoo.
And they put them on with big rocks.Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text -
píshiip tá kuniptáthrip imvarámkaam.
First they strained them with a big tray-basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text -
xás sáruk kúuk tá kun'uum, xás úuth ishkêeshak tá kunpáatva.
And they went downhill, and they bathed out in the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
yúruk tóo trûuputih,
peeshkêesh tóo muustih.
He looked downriver, he looked at the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
úuth tóo tkáratih,
peeshkêesh tóo muustih.
He looked out across the water, he looked at the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
peeshkêesh tóo muustih,
uvêenatih.
He looked at the river, he prayed.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
ikxúrar nupâatvuti ukrámkaam.
In the evening we bathed in (the pond called) ukrámkaam.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
xás vaa yíiv yúruk xumvaroomáruk áhkaam tóo kyav.
And he made a big fire far downriver, uphill from xumvároov.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
yuhsahrímkaam tá kunmah,
vaa káan tá kunímnish xuun,
púufich,
áama.
They saw (i.e., met) him at yuhsarímkaam; there they cooked acorn soup, venison, salmon.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
kuyûum amkúfkaam.
There's a big (lot of) smoke just downriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text -
káan tishrámkaam, xás úhthaamhitih, káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum tishrámkaam, xás utuyshíiprinahiti yiiv.
This is a big valley, and there are mountains rising far away.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