Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
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hûut how
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1410 | revised Nov 07 2014
hûut • QW • how
Derivative (1)
hûutva "somehow; however"
Source: WB 392, p.334
- xás upiip, hûut ikupamáhaheen pa'as. Then he says, "How have you found the rocks?" [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 073]
- Xás takin'éethih, hûut tanukúpheesh. Then she told us how we should do it. [Reference: WB T93. Violet cooking 007]
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hûut kích pa'ishkêesh?
How was the river?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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hûut ipítih?
What did you say?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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xas yítha upíip,
"hûut kumá'ii patá kin'íchunva?
Then one of them said, "What for did you hide us?Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
viri ûum vúra ni'á'ha.
I could scarcely get up.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
púxay vúra xay hûut koo neethvávara, táma âapun.
I could hardly pack it any distance at all, before (I had to put it) down again.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
hûut ata vaa pasárip itâarahiva.
You've gotta have the sticks.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri hûut ikupheesh vásihkam?
How would you pack them?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa hûut nikupá'aapunmaheesh hûut uum koos?
How will I know what size?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa káru hûut ukupheesh?
So what happens?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri hûut kunkupa'ávahitih?
So how can they eat it? [without a special plate]Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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hûut kumá'ii.
Why?Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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chími axmay húut tu'iin,
máruk utápichraa.
Then behold he slipped in upslope direction.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | 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 pirishkâarim upíip:
" hûut tá kukúupha?"
Then Grizzly Bear said: "What is the trouble?"Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
vúra pukúnish xutihap hûut,
tá kun'áapunma tóo mkuhiruv.
They paid no attention to him, they knew that he was getting sweltered.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
pahûut uthvúytiihva peehêeraha
The Name of TobaccoSource: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text -
pahûut u'iftakantákkanti,
úmxaathti,
u'ákkati,
umússahitih
"How [tobacco] Feels, Smells, Tastes, and Looks"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut u'iftakantákkantih
"How [tobacco] Feels"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut úmxaathtih
"How [tobacco] Smells"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut u'ákkatih
"How [tobacco] Tastes"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut umúsahitih
"How [tobacco] Looks"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut ukupeethríhahaahiti peethríha
Phases of FloweringSource: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text -
pahûut pakunkupítihanik xáas vúra kúnish ikxáyxaytihaphanik
How they would say that [the ground] was sort of cultivatedSource: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
hûut úthvuuytih?
What is her name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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hûut úthvuuyti pamihrôoha?
What is your wife's name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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hûut tá ni'iin?
What is wrong with me?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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hûut ti'iin?
What is wrong with you?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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hûut uum tu'iin?
What is the matter with him?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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hûut papúsihich tu'iin?
What is the matter with my cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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hûut uum pamípaah ikyâatih?
How did you make your boat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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pa'áama hûut ímniishtih?
How do you cook the salmon?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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hûut íim?
How are you?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut ti'iin?
What's wrong?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut kich?
How are you?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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iim húm hûut?
And how are you?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut kích peempaah?
How are the roads?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut kích peeshkéesh?
How's the river?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut ipítih?
What are you saying?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut tée piip?
What did you say?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut ikupavêenatih?
What are you doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut míthvuy?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut íthvuuytih?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut kích pamítaat?
How's your mother?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut kích pami'ákah?
How's your father?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut iim míthvuy?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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hûut iim íthvuuytih?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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hûut pamíthvuy?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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peeshkeesh hûut kích?
How is the river?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hûut kích iim?
How are you?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hûut kích uum Phil?
How is Phil?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hûut kumá'ii?
Why?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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hûut tu'íin pami'ápsiih?
What's wrong with your leg?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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uum hûut amáyav.
It tasted really good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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íim hûut ipmahóonkoonatih?
How do you you feel?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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hûut pacake ikyâavish?
How do you make a cake?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about food and drink (VS-39) | read full text
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hûut kích pamitúnviiv?
How are your children?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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hûut kích pamí'aramah?
How is your child?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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xás tá kin'éethih hûut panukúpheesh.
Then she told us how we should do it.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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kári xás uxúti "
hûut áta kúth papunayâavahitihara."
And (after he had eaten them), he thought "I wonder why I'm not getting full?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri hûut chími u'îineesh.
(He wondered) what he should do.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri hûut chími ukupheesh.
So what was he to do?Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás vúra uum hûut chími u'îineesh,
pamúprii vúra tuváxrah.
What was he to do? His tongue was just dry.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
hûut kumá'ii papunayâavahitihara."
And he thought, "Why am I not getting full?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás vúra hûut chí pakúuk kunkupá'uumaheesh.
And how were they to get there?Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
víri hûut vúra panikupeepvûunihaheesh."
How am I going to get back down?"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
kári xás uxús "
hûut áta nikupeepvûunihaheesh."
Then he thought, "How ever am I to get back down (to earth)?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás upiip yítha " hûut upítih payeeripáxvuh,
iinâak ukpêehvutih."
Then one said, "What is the girl saying? She's shouting inside."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás uxus, " hûut tá ná'iin."
And he thought, "What's wrong with me?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kári xás uxútih " hûut yáxa tá ná'iin."
And he thought, "Look, what's wrong with me?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás uxús "
hûut pánikupheesh.
And he thought, "What shall I do?Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás âanaxus upiip, "
hûut ipítih."
And Weasel said, "What are you saying?"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás tá kunipêer pamukun'ákah, "
yee!
arákaas,
hûut ti'iin.
And they said to their father, "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás kári kunipêer pa'arákaas, "
hûut ti'iin.
Then (the sons) said to the old man, "What's wrong with you?Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
kári xás uxús pamukúntaat
" hûut áta kúth pa'ípun vúra kích tu'avíkvuti patu'ípakahaak."
And (the children's) mother thought, "Why, I wonder, is he carrying only the tail when he returns?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás pa'ûumukich u'uum,
kári xás uxús
" hûut kúth papukana'aachichhîivriktihara."
Then when he got near, then he thought, "Why aren't they happy to see me?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pirishkâarim, " hûut tée piip."
And Grizzly Bear said, "How did you say?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
" vúra kúnish hûut tée piip."
"You sort of said something."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
púyava póopvaavruk á'iknêechhan tishravará'iivreen uxus, " hûut áta u'íinati panani'íin.
So when Duck Hawk looked down over Etna Mountain, he thought, "I wonder what's wrong with my falls?Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
pakunxútih " kíri nu'áapunma ' hûut kumá’ii pakunyíkihiti' " púyava kári xás kunpíkav xánkiit.
When they thought, "Let's find out why they are sick," then they summoned Bullhead.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
xás xuntápan kunipêer "
hûut iim u'íinati kúth papu'ipthíthaheen pamípxaan."
And they said to Tan Oak Acorn, "What's the matter with you that you didn't finish weaving your cap?"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | 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 -
víri hûut chími ukupeepsháanvaheesh.
How was she to carry it home?Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti pakachakâach
" hûut áta kumá'ii pa'ípat múxuun kích kúnish poopátatih."
And Blue Jay thought, "I wonder why he sort of eats only Doe's acorn soup?"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" tîi kanmáhi hûut áta pookupeekyâahitih."
And she thought, "Let me see how she makes it!"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pihnêefich,
" hûut ti'iin.
And Coyote said, "What's the matter with you?Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip,
" hûut nukupa'írunaavish."
And they said, "How shall we go?"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pihnêefich,
" yee!
hûut inísheesh pamí'aan,
húuk paathmi.
And Coyote said, "Hey, what are you going to do with your string, throw it (away) some place!Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
pukáru vúra hûut kóo ípanheeshara.
It won't reach that far either.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás uxus,
" hûut áta pánikupheesh."
And he thought, "How ever shall I do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" hûut áta paninísheesh."
And he thought, "How shall I do with it, I wonder?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
yee! xás uxútih,
" hûut áta pánikupheesh."
Well, then he thought, "How ever shall I do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás upiip,
" víri hûut ikupítih,"
pirishkâarim,
" íf tá nitápkuup."
And Grizzly said, "How do you do it? I really like it!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás upiip
" víri hûut ikupa'eethríshukvahiti pamímyah."
And she said, "How do you take out your heart?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hûut chími unísheesh pa'as,
sú' úkrii payuuxmachmahánach.
What was she to do with the rock? Lizard was inside.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás kunipíti pa'asiktávaansa, " púya hûut kumá'ii peekxáram xás uvaaramôotih."
And the women said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kunpiip,
" púya hûut kúth peekxáram uvaaramôotih."
And (the women) said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
kári xás "
hûut áta tá ná'iin."
And (he thought), "I wonder what's wrong with me?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
hûut pánukupheesh."
And they said, "How shall we do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
hûut ník vúra panikupeepmáhaheesh paninikeechíkyav."
How will I ever see my sweetheart again?Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
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hûut áta pánikupheesh."
"How ever shall I do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
víri chavúra tapipshítaani kári xás kunpiip,
peekxariya'ifápiitshas, "
yáxa,
hûut upítih."
Finally after a while the spirit girls said, "Look, what is she saying?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
hûut chí kuninísheesh.
What were they to do with (the girls)?Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás uxús "
hûut áta nikupheesh."
And he thought, "How shall I do, I wonder?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
kári xás uxús kahyuras'afishríhan "
hûut áta ník níniishvunaa."
And Klamath Lakes Young Man thought, "How ever shall I do with them?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
hûut áta tá kunkúupha."
And he thought, "I wonder what they're doing?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás kunípeenti ikmahachram'íshiip veekxaréeyav "
hûut kích ixútih."
And (the person) said to Sacred Sweathouse Spirit, "How are you feeling?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" hûut nikupheesh."
And he thought, "What shall I do?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás uxus, "
hûut nikuupheesh.
And he thought, "What shall I do?Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
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hûut áta pákunkupheesh."
"I wonder what they're going to do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás pakéevniikich upiip, "
kóku,
yáxa hûut tu'iin,
panunukrívraam.
And the old woman said, "Oh-oh, look, what's wrong with our house?Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yee kári xás vúra púxay vúraxay xay vura hûut-heesh,
vúra puxích tuyíkiha.
Oh, nothing can be done, she's really sick.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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púxay vúra hûut-heeshara.
She (Chipmunk) might not make it.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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