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hôoy where; somewhere
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1396 | revised Nov 07 2014
hôoy • QW • where; somewhere
Derivatives (2)
hôoyva "somewhere"
hôoyvurava "somewhere or other"
Source: WB 385, p.334
- hôoy iim. Where are you? [Reference: WB files]
- kíri nu'áapunma hôoy kunmáahti. Let's find out where they were finding (the salmon). [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 004]
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hôoy ti'aramsîiprin?
Where are you coming from?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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xas kunpíip,
"hôoy if."
And they said, "Nonsense!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xáyfaat uum vaa ipíti
" you don't know,"
hôoy if ipíti puná'aapunmutihara.
Don't say, [in English] "I don't know.” Say [in Karuk] "I don't know."Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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hôoy if imvárak xuun íktaamsipreevish.
You can't pick up acorn soup in a plate.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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hôoy tá kutákir?
Where are you all soaking it?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xás kúkuum tá kunipêer:
"hôoy tivâaram,
pihnêefich?"
Then they asked him again: "Where are you going, Coyote?"Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíip,
tá kunchúuphinaa,
pa'avansáxiichas kóova tá kunchúuphinaa kóova pa'avansáxiichas,
xás upíip:
"hôoy mikun'ákah?"
Then Coyote said, the boys talked with him, they talked to him, the boys talked with him, and he said: "Where is your father?"Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
hôoy nanikâarim úkrii?"
"Where does my sister-in-law through mourning live?"Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
pu'áapúnmutihara hôoy vaa poovȃaramootih.
She did not know where he kept going all the time.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
kúna vúra vaa kun'aapúnmutihanik pa'áraar,
hôoy vúrava pa'úhish pookyívishrihaak,
vaa vúra íkiich u'ífeesh,
kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra vaa.
But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
hôoy tivâaram?
Where are you going?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about fear and going places (LA-01) | read full text
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hôoy pa'akvaat?
Where is the raccoon?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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hôoy uum pa'ikxáramkunish púsihich?
Where is the black cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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hôoy pamí'aramah?
Where is your child?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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hôoy pamítaat?
Where is your mother?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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hôoy pamipôor?
Where are your pants?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pami'áan?
Where is your rope?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy uum pamu'áhup?
Where is his stick?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pananíchishiih?
Where is my dog?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pamichíshiih?
Where's your dog?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pamipûuvish?
Where's your bag?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pamipúsihich?
Where is your cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy pamiputíruh?
Where is your potato?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy tivâaram?
Where are you going?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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hôoy ithîishriheesh?
Where are you going to put it (one small thing)?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy ithárishriheesh?
Where are you going put it (something heavy)?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy iiyêeshriheesh?
Where are you going to put it (something flat)?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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iim hôoy i'aramsîiprimtih?
Where are you coming from?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy tu'aramsîip?
Where is he coming from?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy tá kun'aramsîipriv?
Where are they coming from?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy iim péekrii?
Where do you live?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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hôoy panákish?
Where is the pig?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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hôoy pananinákish?
Where's my pig?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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hôoy papúsihich?
Where is the cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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Xás tóo muustihinaa pa'avansáxiich káru ... Hôoy uum pachishíih?
And he's looking at the boy and ... where's the dog?Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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hôoy ti'aramsîipriv?
Where are you coming from?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hôoy tivâaram?
Where are you going?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hôoy ivâarameesh?
Where are you going to go?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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hôoy pamiishxâar?
Where is your fishing pole?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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hôoy pamíchnaat?
Where is your rat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hôoy pamu'ápsuun?
Where is his snake?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hôoy patarípaan?
Where's the cup?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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hôoy pa'ápus?
Where's the apple?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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hôoy uum patasákaam?
Where is the big fence?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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hôoy peekrivrám'aaxkunish?
Where's the red house?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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hôoy pananipúsihich?
Where is my cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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hôoy pamisíkih?
Where is your spoon?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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hôoy pasára?
Where's the bread?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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káru hôoy akâayva 'îin kun kêemish kun'ákihanik,
kéemish u'ávanik.
"And somewhere, someone, they ... they fed him poison, he ate poison."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
hôoy imáahti peeshpuk."
And he said, "Where do you find the money?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás kúkuum too xus, "
hôoy íf ni'uumêesh."
And again he thought, "I can't reach it."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás yítha upiip, "
hôoy."
And (the other) one said, "Where?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
chími,
êev,
hôoy kích ahúp'anamahach.
And (one) said, "Come on, dear, where is a little stick?Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
imáan máh'iit yáan hôoy usúpaahitih,
púyava kunpávyiihma.
The next morning it was just daylight here and there, then they went there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
vaa uum hôoy vúrava kanéeptaatripaavish."
That way they will hook me out somewhere.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás upíip "
hôoy vúra kumeethívthaaneen usnúrutih."
And he said, "It's thundering somewhere in the country."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
yítha upíip "
yahé hôoy pananíkrivkir."
And one said, "Well, where's my chair?Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
káru yítha upíip "
hôoy pananipatúmkir."
and one said, "Where's my pillow?"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
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káru hôoy patanúpviitma,
kíri nimah.
"And where have we paddled to? I want to see!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
hôoy kích imáheen áraar."
And they said, "Where did you see a person?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás tá kunpatánvish "
hôoy i'aramsîiprivtih."
And they asked him, "Where do you come from?"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
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vúra hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih,
tá pukin'aapúnmara.
"Where does he come from? We don't know.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
hôoy kích ára kumáheen,
tóo kvíriprup."
And they said, "Where have you seen a person? He ran downriver."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip "
pûuhara,
hôoy íf vaa ikupheesh,
itaharâan ipíhiroopithveesh."
And they said, "No, you can't do that, you will (have to) dance around ten times!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás paaxíich upatánviishvunaa, "
hôoy uumkun pa'ávansas."
And he asked the children, "Where are the men?"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
naa vúra puna'aapúnmutihara '
hôoy uum papihnêefich úkrii.'"
I don't know where Coyote is."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
chavúra pumahára, hôoy poo'aramsîiprivtih.
In the end he didn't find where it came from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
hôoy íf akáray îin xuus i'éethtiheeshap.
Nobody will take care of you.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
kári xás kunxús pa'asiktávaansas, " hôoy uum poo'aramsîiprivtihirak.
Then the women thought, "Where is it that he comes from?Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
hôoy íf âavahar u'ípakeesh."
He won't come back alive."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
hôoy uumkun pa'ávansas."
And they said, "Where are the men?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
hôoy páy tu'aramsîip pa'ifunihaxára."
And he said, "Where did this long hair come from?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
pamu'îin hôoy ník úxaaktih.
There was no sound of his falls.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
hôoy íf yaxéek yaas'ara'îin kunxúseesh húut.'"
Mankind won't think (about her) in any way.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
xás upíip
" hôoy uum tátach."
And they said, "Where's mama?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
naa ni'aapúnmuti pahóoy."
I know where."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás kunpiip,
" pûuhara,
hôoy íf ikvípeesh."
And they said, "No, you can't run."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxús páchishii,
" hôoy íf vaa páy pánukupheesh."
And Dog thought, "We can't do it like this."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás kunipéer,
" hôoy imáhanik.
And he was asked, "Where did you find it?Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hôoy kích kusrípan.
Where was Madrone?Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
púyava kunípeentih, "
hôoy iim imáahtih peepâanvutih."
So they said to him, "How do you find what you paint your face with?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
naa ni'aapúnmuti '
pamihrôovas hôoy kun'iin.'"
And he said, "I know where your wives are."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
hôoy áta kuniyaarámootih,
patóo kxurarahaak."
And he thought, "I wonder where they always go when evening comes?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
hôoy íf nipásaseesh."
I can't dress up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
pûu,
naa vúra pananípaa nîinamich,
hôoy íf nuyâaheesh.
And he said, "No, my boat is little, we won't fit.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan xás mah'íitnihach upapivankôoti pamusárum ishkêeshak hôoy kích tóo pthívruuhruprav.
Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
kári xás upatanvâava,
upiip, "
hôoy vaa."
And he inquired, he said, "Where is that one?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás upiip,
" ishávaasich hôoy áta uvâaramaheen.
And he said, "I wonder where little niece has gone?Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
vaa uxúti pakúusrah hôoy tu'aramsîiprivtih.
He's wondering where the sun comes from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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kumáam vúra hôoy upíip poo'aramsîip tuvásip.
He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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xás uxútih kíri vaa káan ni'uum,
pakáan kúusrah hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih.
He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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