Ararahih'urípih
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-thun / -thuna- around, here and there

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lexicon ID #6019 | revised Oct 31 2014

-thun / -thuna- SUFF • around, here and there

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Note: Corresponding plural action suffix is -piithva (a/u).


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  1. xáyva nipáhariithun.
    I was lucky enough to catch up with him.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  2. 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
    Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. chí á' pákathuneesh.
    You should cook.
    Source: Violet Super, Sentences about weather and cooking (VSu-05) | read full text
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  11. káan tuvúrayvikeethun.
    (Coyote) walked around there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  12. víri káan ukuchnáxathunatih.
    (Coyote) was sticking his buttocks around there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  13. 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
  14. " 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
  15. káan vúra tuthivrúhuthun.
    It floated around there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  16. káan vúra uvúrayvikeethun.
    He walked around there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. ta'ítam utakníhithunaheen.
    Then he rolled around.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. chími kunipáhariithuneesh.
    They were about to catch up with him.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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