Ararahih'urípih
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iin / íina- to experience something unpleasant; to have something wrong with one; to have something happen to one

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lexicon ID #1667 | revised Oct 31 2014

iin / íina- V • to experience something unpleasant; to have something wrong with one; to have something happen to one

Source: WB 627, p.347

  • hûut ti'iin. What's the matter with you? What's wrong with you? [Reference: WB files]
  • púyava póopvaavruk a'iknêechhan tishravará'iivreen uxus, hûut áta u'íinati panani'îin. And when Falcon looked down from Etna Mountain, he thought, ""I wonder what's wrong with my falls?" [Reference: WB T27.18]


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  1. 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
  2. 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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  3. hûut ti'iin?
    What is wrong with you?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. xás payêem uum vúra tu'aráriihkanha, puhúun vúra íinatihan.
    And now he's well, there's nothing wrong with him.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  9. payêem puhúun íinatihan.
    Now there’s nothing wrong with him.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  10. xás vúra hûutva tu'iin, púxay ta'ítam yâavahitihara.
    But what was the matter with him? he wasn't getting full.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. xás upíip papihnîich " vúra káan ípahoo kúkuum, xáy húun i'íin.
    And the old man said, "Just go there again! Something might happen to you (otherwise).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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