Ararahih'urípih
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kuuk thither, to there

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4076 | revised Nov 17 2014

kuuk ADV • thither, to there

Derivatives (2)
kûukam "in that direction, in that way"
páykuuk "over there"

Source: WB 912, p.358

  • kári xás kúuk u'uum pakun'ûupvanaatihirak. And (Across-the-Water Widower) went there where (the girls) were digging roots. [Reference: TK 68.7]
  • kári xás kúuk upáathma yítha, takuníxtiivhar pasah'áhup. And then one (girl) threw it to the other, they played with the driftwood. [Reference: WB T 1.107]


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  1. " chi váa kúuk kiik'uumi, kíri váa káan ku'iin, kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas."
    "Go over there to live! That's where we want you to live! You had better marry those boys, they are such good hunters!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  2. xas papúufich tá kunthathyúrufurukva ma' kûukam.
    Then they dragged in the deer through the hole in the wall at the back of the house.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  3. kári xas kúuk ni'úum.
    Then I went to the log.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  4. kári xás ni'ûufak pataskaná'anamahich kaan ni'íipma.
    I took my little pole and climbed down.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  5. kári xás kúuk ni'uum.
    Then I went in that direction.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  6. kári xás kúuk ni'uum.
    I went toward it.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  7. páykuuk path.
    Throw it over there
    Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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  8. páykuuk mukrívraam tá ni'áhoo.
    I am walking to his house.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  9. yáxa páykuuk!
    Look there!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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  10. páykuuk uum papôos.
    The boss is over there.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  11. yáxa páykuuk káru apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich
    Look at the white person over there and that white person and that white person.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  12. uum vaa páykuuk vúra uum vaa yav.
    The one over there, she's good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  13. vaa páykuuk nipítap.
    I know that person over there.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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  14. páykuuk uum chuphûunish!
    Talk to him over there!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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  15. xasík peeschool upvôonupukat, vaa kúuk i'uuméesh."
    When the school has let out, you'll go there (to Katimin)."
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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  16. xás uxus, " tîi kúuk kaníkfuukmi."
    And he thought, "Let me crawl to it."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  17. xás kúuk upáathma pamúvaas.
    And he threw his blanket at it.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  18. kári xás kúuk upáathma yítha, tá kuníxtiivhar vaa pasah'áhup.
    And one threw it to (another), they played with that driftwood.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  19. " payêem panimáhaak pasaamvároo paninívaas kúuk nipaathméesh.
    "Now when I see a creek, I'll throw my blanket at it.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  20. xás poomáh pasaamvároo ta'ítam kúuk upaathmáheen.
    And when he saw the creek, then he threw (the blanket) at it.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  21. " 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
  22. xás páy nanu'ávahkam kúuk kinpôonva.
    And they were taken to the sky.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  23. xás vúra hûut chí pakúuk kunkupá'uumaheesh.
    And how were they to get there?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  24. vaa káan ávansa úkrii, páykuuk yíiv úkrii, patuyshipriha'ápapkam.
    A man lives there, he lives far off there, on the other side of the mountain.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  25. kúna vúra páykuuk yíiv áhoon, payôok xáyfaat i'áhoo, peempaheepshûunkinich, kâarim ikupheesh.
    But go by the far way yonder, don't travel (by the way) right here, on the short road, you'll do badly.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  26. xás kúkuum vaa vúra káan u'ípahoo míta kûukam u'arávuukat.
    And she traveled again the way she had come there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  27. xás upíti " tá na'ûuri páykuuk pani'ahoonkôoti yiiv."
    And she said, "I'm tired of going by the far way yonder."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  28. vaa máruk páykuuk kinínaasich úkrii.
    (My) pet is uphill there.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  29. xás mâa páykuuk pakinínaasich iinâak utnúpukva.
    And behold, there the pet peeked out from inside (a nest).
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  30. kári xás yiivári kúuk u'íipma, kúkuum upítkaanvar.
    Then he went away again, he went to spear fish again.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  31. 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
  32. paxuntápan kunífiktih, kúuk tóo kvíripma, xás koovúra tu'ífik píshiip.
    When they picked acorns, she would run there, and she would pick them all first.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  33. xás upêer " xáyfaat ík vúra haríxay kâam kúuk i'íipma.
    And he told him, "You mustn't ever go back upriver there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  34. pa'ifápiit mukrívraam kúuk u'uum.
    They got to the girl's house.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  35. kári xás pakúuk kunpávyiihma axmáy vúra fâatva kunthítiv.
    And when they came back there, suddenly they heard something.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  36. púyava ichámahich kúuk kunchúnvavuti.
    Then they sneaked up to it one by one.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  37. xás kúuk úkfuukiraa.
    And he grabbed in that direction.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text
  38. ta'ítam kúuk kun'úumaheen.
    So they went there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  39. 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
  40. xás upiip, " puyávhara páykuuk.
    And she said, "That (woman) over there is no good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  41. áraar tóo hvaníchviichva páykuuk, puyávhara.
    That one teases (euphemistic for "bites") people, she's no good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  42. xás pamutat'îin kunipêer " îikam kúuk uumi.
    And his mother told him, "Go outdoors!
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  43. xás pámita îin kunsíitvat úpeenti " xáyfaat mâam kúuk ikuníhivraa."
    And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  44. xás mâam kúuk ukúniihva yiimúsich vúra.
    So he shot a little ways uphillward.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  45. váa kúuk ukvíripma pa'ípa unhíshriihvat pa'áthiith.
    She ran there where she had tied the hazel branches.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  46. xás kúuk u'úumanik papreacher muhrôoha.
    So the preacher's wife went there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text
  47. paxúrish tóo krav, páykuuk ása múuk.
    They ground the shelled acorns with that stone over there (pointing to a pestle).
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text
  48. víriva kúuk tá kun'ahávoo páchishiih.
    The dogs would herd them there (towards the traps).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text
  49. víriva kúuk tá kunívyiihma pamukun'ímpaah.
    (The deer) would go to their paths.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text
  50. púyava patusúpaahaak púyava ukráam kúuk tá kunihmárava, tá kunpáatvunaa pa'ávansas.
    When day came, they went to a pond, the men bathed.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text
  51. 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