Ararahih'urípih
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chafipáyaachha / chafipáyaachhi- to eat up completely

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1048 | revised Dec 14 2014

chafipáyaachha / chafipáyaachhi- • V • to eat up completely Variant: thafipáyaachha.

Derivation:  tháfip-áyaachha  (= tha-fip-a yav-ach-ha)
devour-well  (= tha--completely-DEVERB good-DIM-DENOM)

  • kári xás uxus, tîi kanpakatkâati, ta'íttam vúra ucafipáyaachha. And then (Coyote) thought, " Let me taste them!" and he ate them up completely. [Reference: WB T5.133]
  • ta'ítam aas u'íshaheen, koovúra uchafipáyaachha. So he ate, he ate it all up. [Reference: KT 150.47]

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  1. ta'ítam vúra uchafipáyaachha.
    So he ate them all up.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text