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kôok / kooka- kind, variety
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3915 | revised Oct 31 2014
kôok / kooka- • N • kind, variety
Derivatives (3)
kookamáh'iit "every morning"
kôokaninay "everywhere"
kookfâachas "some things"
Source: WB 900, p.362
Note: Idiom: fâat kook 'What's that?' (WB files).
- tâak kúkuum yíth kôok. Give me a different kind. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 395]
- hâari vúra payváheem xavramníhak numáahti vaa kooka'úhraam. Sometimes now in old house-pits we find that kind of pipe. [Reference: TK 150.22]
Sentence examples (20)
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xas kunpíip,
"nuu nusêeyti pávaa kookapákurih."
Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
vaa kôok panivíikti,
arareemváram
That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri manâa puná'aapunmutihara xás vúra xás kôok patákiram vúra kunikyâati.
I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basketSource: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa payíth kôok kuníhruuvtihanik patákiram.
They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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kôokaninay vúr u'íiftih.
They grow all over.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra ník pa'úhish ník vúra kunsánpiithvutihanik pakookâachas.
They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
fâat kóok?
What kind of thing is that?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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xás uxúti "
vaa kíp kôok uvíshvaanti xathímtas."
And he thought, "He just likes that kind, roasted grasshoppers."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kôokaninay vúra pakunmáahti úuth kunpíkfuutkaanva.
Everywhere they saw him, they pushed him back out into the river.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás kôokaninay vúra úktir paxunyêep, máruk, sáruk, yúruk, káruk.
And he beat the tan-oak trees everywhere, uphillward, downhillward, downriverward, upriverward.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
víri vaa kúth payêem paxuntápan kôokaninay vúra u'íiftih.
That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
tóo tkaanvar pa'ávansa,
kookamáh'iit vúra tóo tkaanvar.
The man went to spear fish, every morning he went to spear fish.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " fâat kóok."
And they said, "What is it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
yakún tá kun'ay, " fâat kóok."
You see, they were afraid, (they wondered), "What is it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
fâat kôok peepâanvuti iim."
What did you paint it with?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
víri kôokinay kahyúras tá kun'aramsípriin,
peekxariya'ifápiitshas.
They came from Klamath Lakes and everywhere, the spirit girls.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | 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 kôokaninay ni'aapúnmuti peekxaréeyav tu'íifship.
I know everyplace that a spirit has grown up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víri kôokaninay kúuk kunthítiimutih,
peekxaréeyav mukinínaasich.
They heard the deer (lit., "spirit's pets") everywhere.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
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