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mah to see; to find
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4155 | revised Aug 22 2005
mah • V • to see; to find
Derivatives (6)
fatamáhaan "lucky person"
ipmah "to see again"
ipmahvákirar "to come to see, come to visit"
ishkitmáhaan "lucky person"
ishkítmahar "lucky"
máahva "to visit"
Source: WB 956, p.366
- vaa páy pishiichyâach yáas nimáhat. That's the very first one I ever saw. [Reference: KV]
- kíri nu'áapunma hôoy kunmáahti. Let's find out where they were finding it (the salmon). [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 004]
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xas yítha pamuxuunak ífuni umah.
Then one of the boys found a hair in his mush.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
yaas'ára îin kinmáahtiheesh."
And the people who live will see them."Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas kaan nimáhat pi'êep va'irípraam.
There I saw an old mine.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | 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 -
karu kâakum kumatupichas-háyaachas xakinivki'itráhyar chávura nimma koovura.
Then there were a lot of smaller ones, so that in the end I had seventy dollars in all.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
kári vura nixúti kúkuum vura ikhich nimáhis táay hôoyvurava vaa kâan.
I still think maybe I'll make a find again somewhere right there.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
chavúra kári xás nimah.
Finally I saw him.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
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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víri man punámaahtihara.
But I can't see.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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pakéevniikas kunfíkriiptih,
xás pukunmaahtih.
The old women sorted, they couldn't see.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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Hey vaa panimáharati naa káru,
Violet vaa pay...
I copy that too, like Violet ...Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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tá kunmah mukunpárahvaas.
They saw that he was their uncle through mourning.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
íp nimáhat pamiheerahappírish.
I saw your good for nothing tobacco weeds.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
vaa kári xás kunxúti tóo mtup peehêeraha,
patá,
kunma tóo xváhaha."
Then they know the tobacco is ripe, when they see it is gummy.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Gum (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.i) | read full text -
hâari axmáy'ik vúra fátaak tá kunmah vaa vúra taay pátayiith,
xás sú' patá kun'ûupvakurih.
Sometimes they see at some place a lot of Indian potatoes, and then they dig in under.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
hâari vaa káan vúra mupîimach tá kunmah akthiptunveechiváxrah âapun ithivthaneensúruk.
Sometimes nearby there they see lots of wild oat straw under the ground.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
pa'áama tá nimah.
I see the salmon.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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tá nimah.
I see it.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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ipít íp nimáhat.
I saw it yesterday.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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ipít nimáhat.
I saw it yesterday.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nimah papúsihich.
I see the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nimah papúsihich.
I see the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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iim tá numah.
I see you (sg).Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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iim tá numah.
I see you (sg).Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nimah.
I see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá numah.
We all see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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nimáheesh.
I will see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich îin tá námah.
The cat sees me.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich umáhtih iim.
The cat sees you.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich iim tumah.
The cat sees you.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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taay púsihich tá nimah.
I see lots of cats.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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súva nik tá nimah.
I see it later on (?)Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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súva nik numáheesh.
I will see you later.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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kâam papúufich tá nimah.
I see the deer up the river.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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yûum tá nimah papúufich.
I saw a deer downriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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yûum púufich tá nimah.
I saw a deer downriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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ithyáruk papúufich tá nimah.
I see a deer across the river.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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ithyáruk tá nimah papúufich.
I see a deer across the river.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih uum kúnish nimáhat papúufich pay'ôok úkriivtih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer lives.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih pay'ôok nimahat papúufich úkviit-hitih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer was sleepingSource: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih papúufich uum pamu'asímnaam tá nimah.
When I was walking, I saw the deer's bed.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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fâatva tá nimáh.
I saw something.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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fâatva tá nimáahti îikam.
I saw something outside.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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panani'aháknah tée máh hum?
Did you see my goose?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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íp nimáhat pa'ávansa.
I saw the man.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa íp nimáhat Orleans úkrii.
I saw the man who lives in Orleans.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa Orleans úkrii îin íp namáhat.
The man who lives in Orleans saw me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa Orleans úkrii íp îin namáhat.
The man who lives in Orleans saw me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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tá numah.
I see you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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tá numah îin.
I see you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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iim tá numah.
I see you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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tá nimah.
I see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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punamáahtihara.
I do not see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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punámaahtih.
I don't see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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îikam pa'ipít nimah mí'aramah.
I saw your child outside yesterday.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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achviiv tá nimah.
I see a bird.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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achviiv tee mah.
You see a bird.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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achviiv tá numah.
We see a bird.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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tée mah húm pa'achviiv?
Do you see the bird?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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tá nimah pavírusur.
I saw the bear.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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pavírusur íp nimah.
I saw the bear.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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tée mah húm papúufich?
Do you see the deer?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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papúsihich úm tee mah?
Did you see the cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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hãã tá nimah papúsihich.
Yes, I do see the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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pûuhara punamáahtihara papúsihich.
No, I do not see the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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yuraschíshiih tá nimah.
I see the horse.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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Xás tá kunmah paxanchíifich.
And they see the frog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Pamufíthih kich tá numah.
We can only see his feet.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás pa'avansáxiich káru pachishíih tá kunmáh paxanchíifich.
And the boy and the dog see the frog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás paxanchíifich payêem tóo mah.
And now the frog sees them.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Yáv tóo mah.
He sees that they're good.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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íf xára xás tá nupmah.
I haven't seen you in a long time.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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súva nik nupmáheesh.
I'll see you again.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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kúmateechvanihich ník nupmáheesh.
I'll see you later today.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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imáan nupmáheesh.
I'll see you tomorrow.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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tá nimah pa'ikrivrám'aaxkunish.
I see the red house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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tá nimah pa'ikrívraam.
I see the house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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tá nimah, pa'úuxkunish xuntápan.
I see the bitter acorns.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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tá numah.
I see you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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tá nimah.
I see her.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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imáan nimáheeshi.
I will see her tomorrow.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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imáan ik nimáheeshi.
I am going to see her tomorrow.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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ipít ip vírusur nimáhat kúnish,
tá ni'ay.
Yesterday I saw a bear, I was sort of afraid.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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ipít ip pavírusur nimáhat,
vúra púxich tá ni'ay.
Yesterday I saw the bear, I was really afraid.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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káan pihnêefich umáahtih,
tóo mah poopathuvrîinati ára kaan.
Coyote saw him there, he saw the person there measuring strings of money.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
hôoy imáahti peeshpuk."
And he said, "Where do you find the money?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
púyava tóo mah pasaamvároo.
Then he saw the creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás uxus, "
payêem vúra ni'ísheesh pasaamvároo nimahaak."
And he thought, "Now I'll drink when I see a creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás tóo mah pa'íshaha poovúuntih.
And he saw the water flowing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
koovúra pa'áraar umáahvunaatih, "
iimkun vúra pufáatsahara.
He saw all the people (and said), "You-all are just nothings.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
káan xás umáh áraar,
uphikirîihvutih.
And there he saw a person, he was sweating himself.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
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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 -
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 -
chavúra umáh yánava ithyáruk ukúripaahiti itháriip.
Finally he saw it, he saw a fir tree lying fallen out across-stream.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 -
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 -
xáyfaat ík vúra íshaha umah.
He mustn't find any water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás too mah,
astíip sah'áhup kunikyáavunaatih.
And he saw, they were gathering driftwood on the shore.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
púyava tá kunmah,
pa'ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak.
Then they saw it, the pretty stick floating down from upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
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káru hôoy patanúpviitma,
kíri nimah.
"And where have we paddled to? I want to see!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kári xás káan umáh akvaat,
ípaha kun'irukûuntakoo.
And there he saw raccoons, they were sitting in a tree.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yánava ôok u'iinváhitih.
And he saw it, he saw there was a forest fire here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yánava utháthriinaa axraat.
Then he saw it, he saw bowls of gooseberries sitting.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunmah,
tuthívruuhvarak pa'ahupyâamach.
And they saw it, the pretty stick floated down from upriver.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
hôoy kích imáheen áraar."
And they said, "Where did you see a person?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás pihnêefich ikrívraam umah,
yána u'íikra.
Then Coyote saw a house, he saw it standing.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás pu'akara'îin kínmaahtihap.
And nobody had seen them.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
payêem xasík chí kinmáheesh."
And they said, "Now we are going to see them."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás uum pihnêefich káru vúra púva haríxay maahvúnaa.
And Coyote had never yet seen them either.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
hôoy kích ára kumáheen,
tóo kvíriprup."
And they said, "Where have you seen a person? He ran downriver."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansas uumkun yúruk ník tá kunithvirípiithva,
xás puvúra fâat tá máhap.
And the men ran around downriver, and they didn't see anything.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
nimáheesh poo'árihvarakahaak."
I'll see him when he comes down from upriver."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
kári xás vaa káan umah,
ataynamtunvêechas.
Then he saw the Pleiades there.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
chavúra pumahára, hôoy poo'aramsîiprivtih.
In the end he didn't find where it came from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
xás tu'aachíchha patóo pma pamú'aramah.
And he was happy when he saw his child.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
víri payêem panipimúsarahaak víri vaa ník kári nimáheesh peekrívraam káan vúra u'iikráhaak."
Now when I go back to see (my father), then I'll see if the house is standing there."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | 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 -
xás upêer pamukîit "
peemáhaak '
nanipíkvas tóo kyívunih,'
tá ni'iv."
And he told his grandmother, "When you see my headdress-feather fall down, I'm dead."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
vúra uum hitíhaan kumasúpaa póomuusti pápikvas.
She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xáyfaat kíikmahap."
Don't let them see you."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upíip yítha pa'ávansa, "
yee!
páy fâat tá nimah.
And one man said, "Hey, what's this I see?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
vaa vúra payêem kumáheesh.
You will see him like that now.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kári xás uxús
" chími kanmáhi."
And she thought, "Let me watch him."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra payváheem pamupathakhíram káan kunmáheesh.
And nowadays his kneeling-spot can be seen 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 -
kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii.
You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
ii!
xás umah,
yánava ámtaap kích ukrítuv.
Oh, then she saw him, she saw just ashes lying there!Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" tîi kanmáhi hûut áta pookupeekyâahitih."
And she thought, "Let me see how she makes it!"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás kunipéer,
" hôoy imáhanik.
And he was asked, "Where did you find it?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 -
vaa vúra payêem kumáheesh,
u'úuntih.
You will see it that way now, it is peeling.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
víri vaa vúra kumakári kumáheesh kusrípan,
itíhaan kumahárinay tu'ur.
You will see him that way still, every year he peels.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
yiimúsich tóo pmah,
apsunmúnukich.
She saw Racer a little ways off.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
túus máruk xás tóo mah, káan tóo kmárihivrik.
He saw Mockingbird uphill, he went to meet him there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text -
víri vaa káan tá nimáh panipâanvutih."
There I found what I am painting it with."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
púyava kunípeentih, "
hôoy iim imáahtih peepâanvutih."
So they said to him, "How do you find what you paint your face with?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | 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 -
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 -
vaa uxús "
vaa xasík vúra panikupeepmáhaheesh."
She thought, "That way I'll see him again."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xasík vúra múthvaay upmáheesh.
And he was going to find his heart again.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 -
kári xasík pamúthvaay upmáheesh.
And he was going to find his heart again.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 -
kunmáahti peekxaréeyav tu'íifship.
They would see where a spirit had grown up (i.e., was living).Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
kúkuum fátaak tá kunmáh "
ikxaréeyav tu'íifship."
Again somewhere they would see that a spirit had grown up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víri káan xasík ípmaahvunaavish.
You will find them again there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víriva káan ípmaahvunaavish pamihrôohas."
There you will find your wives again."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
uxus, "
xáy kunmah."
He thought, "Let them not see it!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan tóo mah,
patapriha'ifápiit.
The patapríhak girl saw him there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás kunipéer, "
háriva peemáhaak '
pasáhyuux aas kích'
ixúseesh, '
tá kunpiyâaramaheen.'"
And they told him, "Whenever you see that the sand is wet, you will know that we've gone again."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás pootfúnukva,
umah,
káan úkrii,
pa'ifápiit.
And when he looked inside, he saw her, the girl was there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
víri vaa imáheesh axvithínih.
You will see a grave there.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
káru imáheesh áxak yuup úthyiimvarayveesh.
And you will see two eyes float around.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás vaa vúra umah.
And she saw that.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 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 -
xáy kíikmahap."
Let them not see you!Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
uum pa'áraar pápimtihan ithahárinay vúra pumaahtíhap.
She, the person looking for him, didn’t see him for a year.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
ithâan kumamáh'iit umá
" pachánchaaf yíiv á' vúra úkrii".
One morning she saw the foam was up high.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
víriva ithahárinay pukínmaahtihap.
People didn’t see him for a year.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
tée má húm peekrívraam máruk."
Do you see the sweathouse uphill?"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
tée má húm peekrívraam."
And she said, "Do you see the sweathouse (now)?"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xáyfaat ík kúykar pa'ápsuun pa'ôok kumáhaak."
You mustn't kill the snakes when you see them here."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
vúra tá pu'ipmáhara.
She couldn't find (the child).Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
peepárihrupahaak yúruk peepitvâavnukahaak imáheesh úmkuufhitih.
When you go back downriver, as you look down over, you will see there is smoke.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 umah.
And he saw her.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
vúra pumaahtíhara.
He didn't find her.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
imáan umáh,
utháaniv,
vúra kári úksaahtih,
káruma tu'ívaheen.
The next day (the first devil) saw him, he was lying (there), he was still laughing; the fact was, he had died.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | 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 -
kári pa'apxantínihich tá kunkôoha pakunváthiinaa kári xás pa'áraar afyíiv tá kínmah.
When the white men finished fighting, then they were friendly to the Indians.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text -
xás kári papreacher muhrôoha umáh "
fâat tu'úrishuk sichakvutvarasúruk."
And the preacher's wife saw her take something out of the belt.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
víriva vúra ûumukich tóo máh papúufich.
He would see the deer close by.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | 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 -
vaa pasiríshkir pumáahtih,
kuníchunvaheen.
They didn't look at the river-bar, they hid.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
paaxíich uumkun káru tá kunmah, pa'ápsuun.
The children also see the snakes.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text