Ararahih'urípih
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ífik to pick up (from the ground, as acorns)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1468 | revised Nov 03 2005

ífik • V • to pick up (from the ground, as acorns)

Derivatives (5)
ífikar "to go gather"
ífikaraha "to be many people picking"
ifíkfip "to finish picking up"
ifíkpiithva "to pick up here and there, haphazardly"
ífikram "acorn picking basket"

Source: WB 405, p.335

Note: The term is applied especially to the harvesting of acorns; but also to picking up flints (KS 33.006).

  • paxuntápan poo'ífiktih, káru pa'athithxuntápan umkáanvutih. She was picking up acorns, and she was gathering hazelnuts. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 308]
  • kári xás upífik pamúsaanva, xás upiptákith, áhup upvêehruprih. And then (Coyote) picked up his clothes, and he mended them, he stuck twigs through them. [Reference: WB T5.14]

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  1. táay vúra paxuntápan ífikeesh.
    You will pick up a lot of acorns.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  2. táay vúra ífikeesh paxuntápan.
    Pick up lots of acorns.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  3. xás upífik koovúra pamusanveeshxaxáxax.
    And he picked up his torn-up clothes.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  4. kári xás upífik pamúsaanva.
    And he picked up his clothes.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  5. xás pa'aantunvêech kun'ivitshurooti víri vaa u'ífiktih.
    And when they picked off the little strings, he was picking them up.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  6. ta'ítam kunífikaheen paxuntápan pa'asiktávaansa.
    Then the women gathered the acorns.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  7. kári xás pihnêefich u'ífik.
    And Coyote picked up a stick.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  8. paxuntápan kunífiktih, kúuk tóo kvíripma, xás koovúra tu'ífik píshiip.
    When they picked acorns, she would run there, and she would pick them all first.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  9. kári xás patá kunpíkyaar pakuntáxraati kári xás asmáax " tîi kan'ífiki pataxratêep."
    And when they finished attaching arrowheads, then Towhee thought, "Let me pick up the scraps".
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text

  10. xás pakunikyáavunaati kun'ífikvunaatih.
    And when the women gathered (food), they picked up (acorns).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text

  11. yáas tá kun'ífikvanaa máh'iit.
    Then they gathered acorns in the morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text

  12. pa'asiktávaansas uum kun'ífikvunaa xuntápan.
    The women gathered acorns.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text

  13. káakum pa'éekoons táay vúra tá kun'ífik, xás itahara'átimnam kóo tóo píishha.
    Some people gathered a lot of acorns, and put as many as ten baskets to soak.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text

  14. paxuntápan uum kun'ífiktih, ípahak kun'íiftih.
    They picked the acorns, they grew on trees.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text

  15. púyava xás kun'ífiktih.
    Then they picked them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text

  16. káruma tá kun'ífikvunaa paxuntápan.
    (Or) the case would be that they were gathering acorns.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full text

  17. axyaráva tá kun'ífik átimnam.
    They picked the burden baskets full.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full text