Ararahih'urípih
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úhthaam garden

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6207 | revised Jan 22 2016

úhthaam • N • garden

Literally: 'tobacco-meadow'

Derivation:  úuh thaam
tobacco meadow

Derivatives (3)
uhcháamach "man's name, Pete Henry"
uhtháamha "to plant"
uhthamha'ávaha "vegetables"

Source: WB 1480.5, p.390; TK 50.11

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  1. payêem vúra vaa káan taay u'íifti, pakáan píins kun'úhthaamhitihirak.
    They grow more now where beans are planted.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text

  2. vúra pu'uhthaamhítihap.
    They do not sow it.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text

  3. peheeraha'úhthaamsa
    Tobacco Plots
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  4. úhthaam
    any garden, orchard, or plantation; a tobacco plot
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  5. uhtháamha
    to plant, to sow
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  6. iheeraha'úhthaam
    tobacco plot
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  7. iheeraha'uhthamhíram
    tobacco garden
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  8. pámitva iheeraha'uhthamhíramhanik
    former tobacco plot
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  9. pa'uhípih
    Stalk
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  10. purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish utháamhítihaphanik, vúra iheeraha'úhish vúra kích kuniyâatihanik.
    And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text

  11. 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

  12. kusâam panunu'úhthaam.
    Our garden is down the hill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  13. káan tishrámkaam, xás úhthaamhitih, káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
    A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  14. utishramhúniihva káru máruk, víri vaa káan káru uhthaamhíramhitih.
    There are fields on the slopes uphill also, there is cultivated ground there too.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  15. páy uum úhthaam, koonmúrax.
    This is a garden, nothing but corn.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text