Ararahih'urípih
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thivruh to float

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5967 | revised Jan 29 2016

thivruh V • to float

Derivatives (17; show derivatives)

Source: WB 1460, p.389

  • uthivrúhtiihva. (Clouds) are floating. [Reference: WB files]
  • astíipich vúra kanthivrúhi. Let me float to the shore! [Reference: WB T91]


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  1. hínupa vúra uum vaa tóo pthívruhvarak.
    He floated down the 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
  2. chavúra tá yiiv tóo pthívruhvarak.
    He floated a long ways down.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  3. kári xás pihnêefich yúras uthívruuhramnihanik kúkuum, yuras'ástiip xás uthivrúuhripaanik.
    Then Coyote floated down river again, he floated down out by the ocean.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  4. kári xás yúruk uthívruuhrup.
    And he floated downriverward.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  5. chavúra tá yíiv tóo pthívruuhvarak.
    Finally he floated a long ways downriver back to here.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  6. chavúra ôok ithivthaanéen'aachip tóo pthívruuhvarak.
    Finally he floated back downriver here to the center of the world.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  7. kári xás uthívruuhvarak.
    And he floated down from upriver.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  8. xás upiip, " astíipich vúra kanthivrúhi, astíipich vúra kanthivrúhi.
    And he said, "Let me float to the bank, let me float to the bank.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  9. mukunsá'kukamich xasík nipthivrúhrooneesh."
    I will keep floating back upriver just downhill from them.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  10. tá kunimúsar poopthivrúhroonatih.
    They went to look at it floating back upriver.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  11. pa'úuth kunpípaathkar thúfip xás uthivrúhish.
    When they threw him back in the river, he then floated ashore at Requa.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  12. ta'ítam upthívruuhvarak.
    So he floated back down from upstream.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  13. yíiv tuthívruuhma.
    He floated a long ways.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  14. chavúra kaanvári uthívruuhma.
    Finally he floated to that vicinity.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  15. víriva káan ta'ítam pihnêefich káan uthívruuhma.
    So then Coyote floated to there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  16. " 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
  17. kári xás uxús " chími kanipthívruuhsun."
    And he thought, "Let me float away!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  18. ta'ítam upthívruuhrup.
    So he floated downriver again.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  19. xás yítha upíip " ooo! yáxa kóo ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak."
    And one said, "Oh, look, such a pretty stick has floated down from upstream!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  20. káan vúra tuthivrúhuthun.
    It floated around there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  21. chavúra yûum kumayúrasak uthívruuhramnih.
    Finally he floated into the ocean downriver.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  22. káan xás uthivrúhish.
    He floated to shore there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  23. vaa vúra ôok nupthivrúhukeesh."
    We'll float back to here."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  24. víri pootníshuk víri uumyâach kunipthivrúhish úuth yúrastiim.
    When he barely looked out, they floated ashore out at the ocean, at the seashore.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  25. xás uthívruuhvarak.
    So he floated down from upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  26. 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
  27. xás tá kunpíip " yáxa pa'ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak.
    And they said, "Look at the pretty stick floating down!
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  28. xás vúra tuthívruuhvarak.
    So he floated down from upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  29. xás yurástiim uthivrúhish.
    And he floated ashore on the seashore.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  30. xás mâaka uthívruuhripaa.
    He floated up on land.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  31. kári xás upthívruuhvarak.
    So he floated back down from upriver.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  32. 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
  33. vaa uum vúra payúruk tá kunvíitrup tuthívruuhrup yúruk.
    When they traveled downstream by boat, they floated downstream.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text
  34. ithyáruk kúna úpviitrooveesh, uthívruuhrooveesh káru, káruk uvuunôovahiti pa'íshaha.
    They would travel back upstream on the other side, they would float upstream also, the water was flowing upstream.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text
  35. xás péekxurar uthivrúhish.
    And in the evening he floated to shore.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text
  36. kúkuum vúra imáan péekxurar uthivrúhish.
    Again the next day he floated to shore in the evening.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text
  37. páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen nipthivrúhiroopithvutih.
    I float around and around this world.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  38. peekxúrar púvaxay thivrúhish, koovúra axupa'ithvutiharamúrax.
    When evening hadn't (even) floated down yet, they were all doing nothing but carrying dressed deer meat.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  39. vaa káan sú' kunívyiihramnihanik, vaa uthivrúhuthunanik.
    (The people) got inside (the basket) there, they floated around that way.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  40. káan xás mah'íitnihach upapivankôoti pamusárum ishkêeshak hôoy kích tóo pthívruuhruprav.
    Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  41. víri îifuti uthívruuhtih.
    Sure enough, they were floating (there).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  42. ithahárinay xás tóo pthívruuhruprihva.
    Then in a year he comes back up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  43. káru pápaa úuth uthívruuhtih.
    And the boat is floating out in the water.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text