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iin (two animate) to be, to be living, to be staying
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1664 | revised Aug 20 2005
iin • V • (two animate) to be, to be living, to be staying
Derivatives (4)
inákir "to live on"
íniish "(two) to sit down"
inóohvoo "(pl.) to stay all the time"
xakan'ínaam "dead spouse"
Source: WB 628, p.347; JPH mat 07:456
Note: Functions as durative. In the sense 'two live, stay', cf. sg. ikriv, pl. aráarahiti.
- pamuhrôoha xákaan káan kun'iin. He and his wife live there. [Reference: KV]
- kíri vaa káan ku'iin. We wish you two would live there. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 010]
Sentence examples (30)
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xas muyiimúsich káru ník u'áraarahiti,
áxak yeeripáxvuhsa kaan kun'iin.
And (others) lived close by. Two girls lived there.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
" chi váa kúuk kiik'uumi,
kíri váa káan ku'iin,
kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas."
"Go over there to live! That's where we want you to live! You had better marry those boys, they are such good hunters!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"xáyfaat,
ôok vúra kíik'iini."
But he said, "Don't do that! Stay right here!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
vaa káan ithasúpaah kun'íineesh,
kuntákinti,
yuxnaam.
They stayed there all day, they soaked acorn dough in the fine sand.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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Pay'ôok uum xákaan kun'íin pa'avansáxiich káru pachishiih.
In this one here they're both sitting, the boy and dog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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xás káan panamnih'ifápiit áxak kun'iin.
And two Orleans girls lived there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yánava pa'ifápiitsha xákarari kun'íin poothivtapárahitihirak.
And he saw the girls sitting on each side where people were war-dancing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
káan avansáxiich áxak kun'íinanik.
Two boys once lived there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás kári ifápiitsha kun'iin.
And two young women lived there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
káan pihnêefich úkrii,
muyeeripáxvu xákaan kun'iin,
muhrôoha támit u'ívat.
Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
áxak asiktâan kun'íinanik kustáaras ameekyáaraam.
Two women, sisters, once lived at ameekyáaraam (Ike's Falls).Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás upíkvip sáruk káan pa'asiktávaansa kun'íinirak.
Then he ran downhill to where the women lived.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
pamutúnviiv úpeenvunaa "
ôok vúra kíik'iini.
She told her children, "You stay here.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
pathufkírik muhrôoha xákaan kun'íinanik.
Owl and his wife lived together.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
ka'tim'îin kun'iin.
They lived in Katimin.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
xasík vaa ík vúra kóo káan ku'íineesh paaxvâahar tóo msípishrihaak,
xasík kupínaavish."
You must stay there until the pitch-wood is extinguished, then you will come back."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás umá
" káan ishkéeshtiim kun'iin."
And he saw that they were there on the edge of the river.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
ikxunanáhaanich kun'íin mukeechíkyav xákaan.
Evening Star lived with his sweetheart.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás xára vúra yâamach kunkupá'iinahitih.
And they lived nicely for a long time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
ii!
víri chími núpiini.
Oh, let's live as two again!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
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 -
yúruk ithyáruk víri káan kun'íin pamihrôohas.
Your wives are there on the other side of the ocean.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
u'uum,
pakun'íinirak.
He arrived where they lived.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yee!
víri kún káan xás kun'iin,
pakéevniikich káru pa'ifápiit.
Well, there they were, the old woman and the girl.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan uyvéesh,
pakun'íinirak,
pa'asiktávaan.
He poured it there where the women were.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
tá xára vúra tá kun'iin.
They lived (there) a long time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
púyava vúra xánahishich káan tá kun'iin.
So they stayed there for a little while.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
xás xákaan kunpiin.
And they lived together again.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
kári iinâak nu'iin.
And we two (priestesses) stayed inside.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
axaksúpaa asuuxáras nu'íin káru ithéekxaram.
We two stayed fasting for two days and a night.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text