Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
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tákuruk- to curl, to coil
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5615 | revised Nov 17 2014
tákuruk- • V • to curl, to coil
Derivatives (2)
tákurukish "to curl up"
tákurukriv "to be in a coil"
Source: WB 1293, p.382
Note: Bound stem, used with derivative suffixes.
Sentence examples (2)
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xas upíip,
"vup'áfiv tákurukrivan hitíhaan íp napáknitsurunat."
And the old man answered, "I pulled if off out of the back of my neck where the hair is so curly, you know."Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xás papihnîich upiip, "
paninivup'áfiv vaa káan utakurukíshriihva,
víriva tóo kyiimshur."
And the old man said, "It's curled up there at the base of the neck, it fell off."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text