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hínupa indicates something surprising or unexpected
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lexicon ID #1383 | revised May 25 2005
hínupa • PCL • indicates something surprising or unexpected
Derivative (1)
hínupay "surprisingly, unexpectedly"
Source: WB 381.1, p.334
Note: No lengthening of -n-. Equiv. to hínupay.
- káruma naa hínupa kich. So I am the one (showing that he did not know this before). [Reference: JPH ethno ?:200]
- xás uxúti, tîi matêe kóomahich kan'ífapvi paxathímtas, hínupa chími u'ífapveesh. And (Coyote) thought, "I'm going to pick up a few of the roasted grasshoppers," and he started to pick them up. [Reference: WB T3.35]
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