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-thun / -thuna- around, here and there
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6019 | revised Oct 31 2014
-thun / -thuna- • SUFF • around, here and there
Derivatives (32; show derivatives)
Note: Corresponding plural action suffix is -piithva (a/u).
Sentence examples (30)
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xáyva nipáhariithun.
I was lucky enough to catch up with him.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
naa vúra punathitíveeshara,
xâat xára kaan kú'uuhyanati,
naa vúra vaa punatákirara fâat vúra pakuchuphúruthunatih.
I won't be able to hear, even if you talk a long time, I won't be able to leach acorn or whatever you're talking about.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xas xára vura u'êethithun pa'as.
Then he packed that rock around.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
poo'oonváthunati pamusavásiivsha.
Coyote took his nephews through mourning around all the time.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
vaa vúra ník kun'áapunmutihanik káru,
vaa uum yáv papírish ávahkam kunithyúruthunatihaak patá kunpúhthaampimarahaak.
They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
naa vúra payêem nikpuhúthunavish.
I am swimming around.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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îikam paaxíitichas kunihmárathunanaatih,
xás vúra vaa káan kuniksháahtih.
The kids are all running around outside, they are happy out there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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îikam paaxíitichas kunihmárathununaatih,
xas vúra koovúra yáv kunipmahóonkoonatih.
The kids are running around outside, they are all feeling happy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pûuhara,
naa nixúti îikam vúra káan kunihmárathununaatih,
xás koovúra vaa vúra yáv kunipmahóonkoonatih.
No, I think they are running around there outside, they are all feeling happy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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chí á' pákathuneesh.
You should cook.Source: Violet Super, Sentences about weather and cooking (VSu-05) | read full text
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káan tuvúrayvikeethun.
(Coyote) walked around there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri káan ukuchnáxathunatih.
(Coyote) was sticking his buttocks around there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vaa vúra káan âapun yúuxak ukûuruthun.
He slid all over there that way, on the ground, in the dirt.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
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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 -
káan vúra tuthivrúhuthun.
It floated around there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
káan vúra uvúrayvikeethun.
He walked around there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra vaa utháaniv,
uthítiimti pakunchuphúruthunatih.
(Coyote) lay like that, he heard them talking about him.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti pihnêefich "
nanithívthaaneen tá kunchuphúruthun."
And Coyote thought, "They're talking about my country."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
ta'ítam utakníhithunaheen.
Then he rolled around.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
yánava páxaath vaa vúra ukupa'íshipithunahiti pookupavúrayvahitiheen.
He saw the grasshoppers strung around where he had been wandering.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás âapun ukyívish,
xás ukrivrúhuthun.
And he fell to the ground, and he rolled about.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás vúra tusáyriihva,
xás uváxiprishuk,
xás âapun ukrivrúhuthun.
Then (Coyote) was homesick, and he flopped out, and he rolled around on the ground.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás kári vúra u'aachíchha,
xás ukrivrúhuthun,
úuth upiytúykaanva páyuux.
Then he was happy, and he rolled around, and he kicked the dirt out into the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
chími kunipáhariithuneesh.
They were about to catch up with him.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kúkuum chími kunipáhariithuneesh.
Then they were about to catch up with him again.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás káan avansatínihich ukûuruthunatih.
And a flat man was sliding around there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
u'ihukárahitih veeshura'ípan pakuntâatathunatih."
They're having a puberty dance, they're tossing her around on the ends of their horns."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
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 -
kári xás upiip, " púya, payêem ík vôohara mûuk ivúreesh, papay'ôok tu'íhithunahaak nunúthvaaykam."
And (one) said, "Say, this time we must jab him with a digging stick when he dances around here in front of us."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
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