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hôoyva somewhere
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1397 | revised Sep 09 2014
hôoyva • ADV • somewhere
Derivation: | hôoy-va |
where-INDEF |
Source: WB 385.1
- hôoyva vúra patakunívyiihship. They were going somewhere. [Reference: KS38. Mice story 008]
Sentence examples (14)
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yánava su hôoyvarihva xas áhup nikrúkukaa.
I poked a stick in.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
hôoyva vúra panivâarameesh.
I'm going to go somewhere.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play -
hôoyva kúnish kunpakúriihvutih.
Somewhere they were sort of singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich axmáy hôoyva ukpêehva
" shúuuuuhuuuuu."
And suddenly Coyote hollered somewhere, "Shuuuuuhuuuuu."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
kári xás uum vúra hárivaheesh, á'iknêechhan hôoyva tuvâaram,
sinmôovishar.
So it would be sometimes, Duck Hawk went off somewhere, he was gone a long time.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii.
You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa akvíishich hôoyva pufích'anamahach tóo pêethuk.
There Wildcat had brought a little deer from somewhere.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
ithéekxaram vúra hôoyva kunikvéesh.
They spent the whole night somewhere.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
púyava yáan ník vúra hôoyva usúpaahitiheesh.
Then it was just about to be dawn someplace.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
hôoyva má' poomkaanvúrayvutih.
She was gathering food (from bushes, such as berries) somewhere in the mountains.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kuníhyiivti hôoyva.
And there was a shout somewhere.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
máruk hôoyva ni'ípahoo,
tá ná'aathva."
I'm going uphill somewhere; I'm afraid."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
axmáy xás pa'úuhyan hôoyva u'aramsîiprin.
Suddenly a voice came from somewhere.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih.
He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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