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íhuk to do the flower dance (puberty dance)
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lexicon ID #1593 | revised Apr 20 2014
íhuk • V • to do the flower dance (puberty dance)
| Derivation: | ih-uk |
| dance-to.here |
Derivatives (6)
íhuk "flower dance, girl's puberty ceremony"
íhukar "to go flower-dancing"
íhukar "flower dance song"
ihukûum "do the flower dance"
íhukvunaa "flower-dance"
íhukvunaa "to have a flower dance"
Source: WB 416.1, p.336
- mí'aramah tuyêeripha, káan xás kun'íhukti. Your child is having her first menses, they're having a puberty dance there. [Reference: KT 129.32]
- xás payêeripharas kunpiip, nuu chími nu'íhukeesh. And the pubescent girls said, "Let's do the flower dance!" [Reference: KT 145.3]
Sentence examples (4)
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aayâach kun'ixviphûunishti íp pa'úthvoonhitihat va'íhuk,
tá kun'ithyúruvarak,
pamútraax kich kun'áaphutih.
That was because they were mad at him because he had wanted to dance. They they dragged him down, they were just carrying him (by) the arms".Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
púyava káan xás tá kun'íhukvunaa.
Then they flower-danced there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
chí kunívyiihshipreevish uknamxánahich,
káan chí kun'íhukvunaavish.
They were going to leave for 'uknamxánahich, they were going to have a flower dance there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Crane" (WB_KL-42) | read full text