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vôor / vôon- to creep, crawl, move slowly
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lexicon ID #6621 | revised Nov 19 2015
vôor / vôon- • V • to creep, crawl, move slowly
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Source: WB 1563, p.395
- pa'ámtaap vaa vúra kích toovôonti pamú'iish. Dust is all over his body. [Reference: TK 250.4 (?)]
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xas papihníich upíip,
"chími kiikpiruvôonishuki."
Then the old man said to the girls, "Come out now!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas kunpiruvôonishuk.
And they came out.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas mah'íitnihach kun'iruvôonsip,
xas kun'ímnish xuun.
Early the next morning, they got up and cooked the acorn mush.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
kári xás tá nivôonsip.
And then I got up.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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xás yítha îim uvôonupuk.
Then one went outside the house.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
mâaka kích uvôonipaati ma'tîimich.
He (Grizzly Bear) only moved back against the wall in the back part of the sweathouse.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás kunipêer:
" íim úm vúra pu'ipvôonupukeeshara?"
Then they told him: "Aren't you going to go out?"Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
tá pu'imtaranáamhitihara pamutiiv poopvôonsip.
His ears were invisible when he got up again.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás uvôonfuruk.
Then he went in.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
chavúra tá pâanpay axmáy pihnêefich upvôonfuruk.
Then after a while once Coyote came back into the house.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
chavúra pâanpay iinâak upvôonfuruk.
Then a little later on he came into the living house (from the sweathouse).Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
máh'iit îikam nivôonupuk.
I went outside this morning.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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îikam ivôonupuk.
You went outside.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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pachishíih tóo pvôonfuruk.
The dog came back inside.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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papúufich îinaak tuvôonfuruk.
The deer came inside.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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papúufich îinaak tuvôonfuruk.
The deer came inside.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pachíshiih iinâak vôonfuruk.
Put the dog in the house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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pachínim pa'ipíta iinâak uvôonfurukatih.
There was a skunk inside the house yesterday.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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iinâak tuvôonfuruk.
He is going inside the house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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vôonfuruk.
Come in.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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îikam vôonupuk.
Go outside.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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íp peevôonfuruk íp kúnish vaa ifuráthfiptih.
It seemed like you were cranky when you came in.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íp poovôonfuruk uksáahtih.
When she came in the house she was laughing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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uum káru poovôonfurukati puyáv ipmahóonkoonatihara.
And when she came in she was not feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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ipvoonvánaachheesh.
Put your shirt on.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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naa tá nipásasip pananivoonvánaach.
I'm putting on my shirt.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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xasík peeschool upvôonupukat,
vaa kúuk i'uuméesh."
When the school has let out, you'll go there (to Katimin)."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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xás panipvôonupukat,
xás kári káruk ni'árihroov.
And when it had let out, then I went upriver.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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kári xás poopvôonsip taay tu'ish.
And when he got up, he had drunk a lot.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás ikmaháchraam upvôoruvrath.
And (one) went back into the sweathouse.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
xás upiip, " yée naa, pihnêefich tuvôoruvrathaheen.
And he said, "Well, Coyote has come into the sweathouse.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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kári xás poovôonupuk ikmaháchraam uvôonupuk.
And when he went out, (the person sweating) came out of the sweathouse.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uvôoruvrath pihnêefich.
So Coyote crawled in.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
ith'áraan ník kúna tóo pvôoruvrath,
kunithyivúniihvutih.
(As) each person crawled in, they fell down.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
poorápiit nikyâavish káru vúra nanivoonvánaach káru akvákir káru vúra naniyukúkuh."
I'll make new pants and my shirt and a quiver and my shoes."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás upíip "
payêem nivôoruraavish pa'ípaha.
And he said, "Now I'll climb a tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás á' uvôoruraa ípahak.
And he climbed up a tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kári xás iinâak uvôonfuruk ikmaháchraam.
Then he crawled into a sweathouse.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás uvôonfuruk.
So he crawled inside.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás á' uvôoruraa iyvôoruraak.
Then he crawled up on the woodpile.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam kun'iruvoorúraanaheen.
And so they crawled up.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
kári xás upvôonsip.
Then he got up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
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púyava upvôonsip.
Then he got up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás kári upvôonsip.
Then he got up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás upvôonishuk.
And he crawled back out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás poovôonupuk pa'ávansa,
víri vúra vaahyâach pamu'áka.
And when the man came out, he was just like her father.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás pakéevniikich upíip "
víri naa chími vôonfuruki.
And the old woman said, "Well, come in.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
ta'ítam máh'iit yáan vúra usúpaahitih,
uvôoruraa pa'ípaha.
So in the morning it was scarcely dawn, he climbed up the tree.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vúra vaa uvôoruraatih.
He was climbing up like that.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
âanxus uvôonfuruk.
Weasel went in the house.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás pamú'arama uvôonfuruk.
And her child came in.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
kári xás âanaxus uvôoruraa.
So Weasel climbed up.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
xás papihnîich úpeenvunaa payeeripáxvuhsas, "
chími kiikpiruvôonishuki."
And the old man told the girls, "Crawl out again!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás kári pa'ifápiit kun'iruvôonishuk.
Then the young women crawled out.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy upvôonfuruk pathufkírik.
And suddenly Owl came in again.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktâan uvôonsip.
Then the woman got up.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás poo'íipma xás upvôonfuruk iinâak.
And when he got there, he crawled inside again.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás u'íkihvuti poopvôonfuruk maath póoktaamtih.
And (Bear) was grunting as she came in, as she was carrying a heavy load.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás kuniruvôonfuruk.
And they went in.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás kári iv'ávahkam uvôoruraa,
tóo piikívshipriv péemyah.
And he crawled up on the roof, he wore the heart as a necklace.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás iv'ávahkam uvôoruraa papirishkâarim.
So Grizzly crawled up on the roof.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan káru uum tuvôonupuk.
The woman went out too.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava imáan tuvôonupuk,
pa'asiktávaan.
So the next day the woman went out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás apsunmúnukich axmáy uvôonuprav.
And suddenly Racer crawled out (prematurely).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava vírusur uum ikxúrar xás tuvôonupuk.
Then Bear went out in the evening.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
hínupa chantirih'îin sú' patá kunvôonkurih,
vaa kúth pookpaksúrooti pamúsiish.
There it was Tick that crawled into him, that's why he cut off his penis.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
púxay iruvôonuptihara.
They (the girls) wouldn't come out of the house.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás kunipêer "
chími vôonfuruki."
Then (the girls) told him, "Come in!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás kunipêer "
chími vôonfuruki iim kahyuras'afishríhan.
They told him, "Come in, you Klamath Lakes Young Man!Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás iinâak upvôonfuruk.
Then he went back inside.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
kári xás pihnîichich uvôonsip,
pamukun'ákah.
Then the old man got up, their father.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
xás poovôonupuk káan u'áasish.
And when he came out (of the sweathouse), he lay down there.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xás uvôonupuk.
And she went outside.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
kári xás a' uvôoruraa iyvôoruraa.
Then she crawled up onto the woodpile.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás ikxáram axmáy uthítiv,
axmáy uvôonfuruk pa'apurúvaan.
Then in the night suddenly she heard it, suddenly the devil came in.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás pa'apurúvaan upvôonfuruk.
Then the devil came back in the house.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás tá kunpíip"
chími vôonupuki."
And they said, "Come out!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava vúra puxích tá kuníhyiv"
chími vôonupuki."
So they shouted loudly, ‘Come out!’Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
víriva púra fátaak vôonupuktihara.
(The bear) He didn’t come out anywhere.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava tuvôonkaa pa'ávansa.
So the man crawled in.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava tóo yfúutrupuk pavírusar,
îim tuvôonupuk.
Then he pushed the bear outside, he came out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava tóo pvôonupuk pa'áraar.
The person came back outside.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
xás ithváaykam pachivchaksurúraam vúra ipshûunkinich pakáan kunvóonkurihvutih.
And in front, there was a low door, where they went in.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás vuráakir u'íihya, xás vaa káan pakunvóoruniihvutih.
And a ladder stood (there), and they crawled down (into the house) on that.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
patá kunkôohaak iinâak véekrii xás vaa káan tá kunvôonupuk.
When they were finished staying inside, then they crawled out there.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás vaa káan kun'áhooti pa'îikam tá kunvôonupukahaak.
And they walked on that when they went outside.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
púxay vúra ihyáriheeshara patá îim kúuk tá kun'úumahaak,
xás vúra tá kunvôonupuk.
They didn't stand up when they went outside, they just crawled out.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás kári tuvôonsip.
Then she got up.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
xás tóo pvôonfuruk.
And she came indoors again.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
xás îikam tuvôonupuk.
Then he went outside.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
payôok ávansa vuraakírak uvôoruraatih, úmkaanvutih.
Here a man is climbing on a ladder, he is picking apples.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pakúusra tuvôonsip.
The sun has risen.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kári xás ta'ítam,
uvôonsipreeheen,
xánkiit.
Bullhead got back up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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