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hitíhaan always; all the time; constantly
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1391 | revised Nov 03 2005
hitíhaan • ADV • always; all the time; constantly Variant: hitíhaanik, itíhaan.
Source: WB 382, p.334
- vúra uum hitíhaan kumasúpaah póomuusti pápikvas. She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone). [Reference: WB 20: The Perils of Weasel 3: 010]
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xas upíip,
"vup'áfiv tákurukrivan hitíhaan íp napáknitsurunat."
And the old man answered, "I pulled if off out of the back of my neck where the hair is so curly, you know."Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xás vúra uumkun hitíhaan pakaan kunivyíihmutihanik peekxaréeyav,
váa kumá'ii pakun'úuhyanatihanik,
hûut áta pakunkupítiheesh,
yaas'ára.
The First People went in there all the time, since they were talking over what humans were going to do.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás úum vúra hitíhaan poopítih:
"kahyúras nivâarameesh,
íshpuk nipachnútareesh."
Then he (Coyote) said all the time: "I am going to go to the Klamath Lakes to suck out dentalia."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xas uum vúra hitíhaan kumasúpaa poopȋiriihiti pamu'ávan paxuun.
She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
uum vúra vaa hitíhaan ukupítti'.
That was his job.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text -
vaa uum vúra hitíhaan araréethvaayvari vaa kóo vâaramas-hitih.
But most of the time they come up to a person's chest.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
kúna vaa vúra ník kun'áapunmutihanik,
pamukunvôoh muuk vaa káan taay u'íifti,
pakáan hitíhaan kun'ûupvutihaak,
patá yíth,
vaa káan yáanchiip taay u'íifti,
yíth pakáan kun'uupvutihaak.
But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
vúra uum hitíhaan kumasúpaa póomuusti pápikvas.
She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
uum vúra hitíhaan vaa kích ukupitih,
úkvaatih.
He did only this all the time, he gathered sweathouse wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
avansáxiich vúra uum hitíhaan uxráratih.
A little boy was always crying.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text