Ararahih'urípih
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-raa here, to this place, to this place from downhill, to this place from downriver

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lexicon ID #5171 | revised Aug 23 2005

-raa • SUFF • here, to this place, to this place from downhill, to this place from downriver

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  1. sáruk niyvúrunih xás áavkam ni'áapish xás máruk upikvíripraa.
    I followed him down hill at a run. I headed him off and he ran back up hill.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text

  2. xás máruk nipíthváraa.
    I packed him back up the hill to that log.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text

  3. kári xás máruk níkfuukraa, chavúra máruk ípan nikfúkuvraa.
    Then I climbed uphill and finally I climbed over the hill top.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

  4. chími axmay húut tu'iin, máruk utápichraa.
    Then behold he slipped in upslope direction.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  5. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither upriver.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  6. xás úkfuukraanik ikurâak.
    Then he climbed up slope.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  7. xás uum vúra váa póokfuukraanik pirishkâarim upárihishrihanik.
    And when he climbed up slope he was metamorphosed into the grizzly bear.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  8. chéemyaach ík vúr ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up 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

  9. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  10. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text

  11. chéemyaach ík vúr ishyâat imshîinnaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text

  12. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshíinaavish.
    Shine upriver soon, Spring Salmon.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  13. peheeraha'íppa mupikyutunváramuu, káru koovúra pamúthvuy
    "Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  14. mupikutunváramuu
    its joints
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  15. Xás vúra káan tú'uum váa káan u'áharamuraatih.
    And then he (the frog) gets there, he follows them there.
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  16. 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

  17. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshírihraavish.
    Spring salmon, you must shine upriver quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

  18. kupánakanakana. chêech ík vúra ishyâat imshírihraavish.
    kupánakanakana. Spring salmon, you must shine upriver quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  19. xás ta'ítam kunípviitraaheen.
    So then they paddled up from downriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  20. xás kúkuum vúra kunípviitraa.
    Then they paddled upriver again.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  21. kári xás vúra kunípviitraa.
    So they paddled upriver again.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  22. xás axmáy vúra máruk kúna utápichraa.
    And suddenly he slipped upriver.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  23. víri vaa kúth sâam usaamnúputih, káru vaa kúth áama ukvíripraatih.
    That's why (the water) flows downstream, and that's why salmon run up the river.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  24. âanxus upíkfuukraa.
    Weasel climbed back uphill.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  25. xás âanaxus tóo naa, pa'áraar kuniykáranaati âanaxus.
    Then Weasel went upriver, the people were killing (i.e., trying to kill) Weasel.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

  26. máruk tá kunpifúkraan.
    They climbed uphill.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text

  27. víri máruk pootrâatih.
    He looked uphill.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text

  28. víri kún káan tá kunpifúkraan.
    There they had climbed up there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text

  29. káru pa'avansáxiich uum tá mâam kun'íkakraa.
    And the boys were already climbing uphill.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  30. kári xás xahamíchmiich kári xás u'êethraa pamú'aan.
    Then (the spider called) xahamíchmiich brought up his string.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  31. imáankam kúkuum vúra u'árihraa.
    The next day he went up again.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  32. yánava tóo kvíripraa.
    She saw him run upriverward.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  33. íp kanéepeerat ' xáyfaat ôok inaa'."
    They told me, 'Don't go up there.'"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  34. kári xás máruk ikuraa'ípan u'ikrîish.
    And she sat down uphill on the end of a ridge.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text

  35. kári xás pá'aah ta'ítam u'iinaaheen.
    Then Fire burned uphill (toward her).
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text

  36. máruk tá kunítraatih.
    They looked uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text

  37. xás kúkuum kunítraatih, kúkuum tu'íhithun.
    And again they looked uphill, he was dancing down again.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text

  38. káru kaanvári tá níkfuukraa.
    And I climb up there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text

  39. xurishaxara'ifápiit pamúkuraa kaanvári tá níkfuukraa.
    I climb up there on the Ridge of Long Acorn-Meats Young-Woman.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text

  40. axmáy yúruk kunithvíripraa peekxareeyav'ifápiitichas.
    Suddenly the spirit girls ran up from downriver.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  41. axmáy ára u'árihraa.
    Suddenly a person came up.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  42. xás uxúti " ikxaréeyav u'árihraa."
    And he thought, "A spirit is coming up."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  43. kári xás poovâaram, mâamvanihich tóo kfuukra.
    So when he went, he climbed a little ways uphill.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  44. xás máruk úkfuukraa.
    Then he climbed uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  45. xás máruk úkfuukraa.
    And he climbed uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  46. xás úkfuukraa.
    And he climbed uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  47. púyava pá'aas ukríkurihva púyava pa'áama tá kunívyiihraa, xás urípihak tá kunihmáravar.
    So when they set it into the water, when the salmon came up, then they ran into the net.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text

  48. púyava xás uumkun yu'kúkamkam pa'ávansas tá kunithvíripraa.
    Then the men on the downriver end ran up.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text

  49. ôok tu'árihraa peekxariya'áraar.
    The priest came up there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text

  50. mâam patusúpaaha maruk too trâa tuvásip.
    When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  51. táma ukfuukrâaheen.
    Then he went up the hill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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