Ararahih'urípih
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hôoy where; somewhere

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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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  1. 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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  2. 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
  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. hôoy tivâaram?
    Where are you going?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about fear and going places (LA-01) | read full text
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. hôoy pamí'aramah?
    Where is your child?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  15. hôoy pamítaat?
    Where is your mother?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. hôoy iim péekrii?
    Where do you live?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  32. hôoy panákish?
    Where is the pig?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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  33. hôoy pananinákish?
    Where's my pig?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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  34. hôoy papúsihich?
    Where is the cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. hôoy pamiishxâar?
    Where is your fishing pole?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  40. hôoy pamíchnaat?
    Where is your rat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  41. hôoy pamu'ápsuun?
    Where is his snake?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  42. hôoy patarípaan?
    Where's the cup?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  43. hôoy pa'ápus?
    Where's the apple?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  44. hôoy uum patasákaam?
    Where is the big fence?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  45. hôoy peekrivrám'aaxkunish?
    Where's the red house?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  46. hôoy pananipúsihich?
    Where is my cat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  47. hôoy pamisíkih?
    Where is your spoon?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  48. hôoy pasára?
    Where's the bread?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. xás yítha upiip, " hôoy."
    And (the other) one said, "Where?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. káru yítha upíip " hôoy pananipatúmkir."
    and one said, "Where's my pillow?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  59. " 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
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. " 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
  63. 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
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. 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
  68. 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
  69. 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
  70. hôoy íf âavahar u'ípakeesh."
    He won't come back alive."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  71. 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
  72. 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
  73. 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
  74. 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
  75. 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
  76. naa ni'aapúnmuti pahóoy."
    I know where."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. hôoy kích kusrípan.
    Where was Madrone?
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  81. 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
  82. 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
  83. 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
  84. hôoy íf nipásaseesh."
    I can't dress up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  85. 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
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. 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
  89. 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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  90. 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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  91. 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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