Ararahih'urípih
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ik must

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lexicon ID #1729 | revised Nov 07 2014

ik PCL • must

Derivatives (11; show derivatives)

Source: WB 437, p.337

Note: Used as PCL within sentence, but as suffix (no /’/) after verb form.

  • yítha ík káan ukrîishriheesh. One of you must sit down here. [Reference: KT 152.33]
  • i'asímchaaktiheeshik. You must close your eyes now. [Reference: WB G845.3]


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  1. áhup ik chími ápim, sáanfuruki!
    Look for wood, bring it in!
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play
  2. xáyfaat ik kúkuum nu'íchunva."
    We won't hide again!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  3. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither upriver.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  4. chéemyaach ík vúra atáychukinach i'úunupraveesh.
    Grow early, Spring Cacomite.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  5. kári xás úpaanik poopítithunanik: " xáyfaat ík vúra váa náa nithítiimti pamikunpákurih; náa púvaa nanívaahara pamikunpákurih."
    Then he said looking back: "I must never hear your song any more; your song will not do for me."
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  6. pirishkâarim váa úpaanik: " xáyfaat ík vúra váa náa nithítiimti pamikunpákurih."
    Grizzly Bear said it: "I must never hear your song any more.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  7. xás úppeeranik, achvúun îin kuníppeeranik: " xáy faat ík vúra ôok ipáfyuk, iim vúra pu'ôok vúrayvutiheeshara."
    And Hookbill told him: "You must never come around here again, you are not going to come around here."
    Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text
  8. xás kuníppéer: " iim kyáru vura xáy faat ík ôok ipáfyuk, iim kyáru vura pu'ôok ikrêevishara," achvúun kuníppéer.
    And they told him: "You yourself must not come around here, you too are not going to stay here," they told Hookbill.
    Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text
  9. chéemyaach ík vúr ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  10. chéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh.
    Grow up early, Spring Cacomite.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  11. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text
  12. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshîinaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text
  13. chéemyaach ík vúr ishyâat imshîinnaavish.
    Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text
  14. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshíinaavish.
    Shine upriver soon, Spring Salmon.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  15. chéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh.
    Grow up soon, young Blue Dicks.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  16. xáyfaat táay ík papáy i'îinatih!
    Stop it!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
  17. imáan ik nimáheeshi.
    I am going to see her tomorrow.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
  18. kári xás kunipêer papihnêefich " i'asímchaaktiheesh ik.
    And they told Coyote, "You must keep your eyes closed.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  19. xáyfaat ík mán iyúupha."
    Don't open your eyes."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  20. kupánakanakana. chéemyaach ík vúra ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh.
    kupánakanakana. Young brodiaea plant, you must come up quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  21. náyaavheesh ik.
    You must hurry to me.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  22. chéemyaach ík vúra ishyâat imshírihraavish.
    Spring salmon, you must shine upriver quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  23. náyaavheesh ik.
    You must hurry to me.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  24. kúna vúra xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
    But you mustn't open your eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  25. vaa ík vúra panuvíitihaak.
    That's the way it must be when we paddle.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  26. vaa ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh."
    You will have to keep your eyes closed like that."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  27. kári xás kunipêer " xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
    And they told him, "Don't open your eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  28. kupánakanakana. chêech ík vúra ishyâat imshírihraavish.
    kupánakanakana. Spring salmon, you must shine upriver quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  29. náyaavheesh ík.
    You must hurry to me.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  30. káru chêech ík ataychúkinach i'uunúpraveesh.
    And young brodiaea plant, you must come up quickly.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  31. náyaavheesh ik.
    You must hurry to me.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
    Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play
  32. púyava ík kári xasík iyúupheesh.
    Then you can open your eyes.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  33. xás upíip " náachish, xáyfaat ík vúra neexviphûunish."
    Then he said, "Nephew, you mustn't get angry at me!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  34. xáyfaat ík vúra íshaha umah.
    He mustn't find any water.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  35. koovúra ík pa'íshaha uváxraahvunaavish."
    All the water must dry up."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  36. kúna vúra i'asimchákeesh ík, xáyfaat ík itxâarihva.
    But you must close your eyes, you mustn't open them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  37. kári xás kunipêer " vúra ík i'asímchaaktiheesh.
    And they told him, "You must keep your eyes closed.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  38. kári xás ík vúra itúraayveesh panúpeerahaak."
    Then when we tell you, you can look around."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  39. payêem ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh.
    This time you must keep your eyes closed.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  40. kári xás ík vúra itúraayveesh panúpeerahaak."
    Then when we tell you, you can look around."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  41. xás upêer pasípnuuk " naa ík vúra neemúsahitiheesh peekûuntakoo.
    And he said to the storage basket, "You must look like me as you sit.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  42. xasík ík ipakurîihvutiheesh ik."
    You must be singing."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  43. xás upêer " vaa ík vúra kóo ôok ikûuntakoovish pani'ípakahaak, xasík ikôoheesh."
    And he told it, "You must be sitting here like that until I come back, then you can stop."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  44. xás kunpíip " pa'avansáxiich káan tá kun'íihmahaak ík kári kupêethkeevish."
    And they said, "When the boys dance to there, you people must pull them out."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  45. kári xás upíip " chími man, kúna vúra xáyfaat ík i'ûurih."
    And they said, "All right, but you mustn't get tired."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  46. xás upiip " puxích ík vúra kupakúriihveesh."
    And he said, "You must sing loudly."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text
  47. hâari vúra xasík napimusarûukvutiheesh."
    You can come back to see me sometime."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  48. axmáy ík vúra yav.
    At one moment it would be good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  49. pavúra ixusáhaak, ' kúnish chí kaneeykáreesh vúra,' ikpêehveesh ík.
    Whenever you think they are sort of about to kill you, you must shout.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  50. víri payaas'ára hûutva tu'íinahaak, víri payaas'ára kâarim tukúphaak, vaa kári xás ík ichuuphítiheesh.
    However (long) Mankind exists, when Mankind does bad, then you will have to speak.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  51. " chêech ík vúra kupthítheesh."
    "You must finish weaving quickly."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  52. xás upêer pa'avansáxiich " imáankam sáruk astíip pamíchaas xákaan ík kuyâarameesh ikxúrar.
    And she told the boy, "Tomorrow evening you and your younger brother must go down to the river-bank.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  53. 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
  54. xás upêer " xáyfaat ík vúra haríxay kâam kúuk i'íipma.
    And he told him, "You mustn't ever go back upriver there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  55. yanavéekva tu'áhooheen, apsunmúnukich.
    She saw Racer coming.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text
  56. axmáy ík máruk ára u'íhuniheesh.
    Suddenly a person was about to dance down.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text
  57. kári xás upiip, " púya, payêem ík vôohara mûuk ivúreesh, papay'ôok tu'íhithunahaak nunúthvaaykam."
    And (one) said, "Say, this time we must jab him with a digging stick when he dances around here in front of us."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text
  58. áxak ík peevíkeesh."
    You must weave two (of them)."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  59. víri panipvárupravahaak, vaa ik kumûuk neethxúpeesh pa'árus."
    When I come back out (of the water), you must cover me with the seed-basket."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  60. yukún naa ík káru vaa nikupheesh pookúphaanik peeknûumin veekxaréeyav.
    You see, I must also do that way, as Burrill Peak Spirit did.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text
  61. víri vaa kinípeeranik " hûutva kóo ithívthaaneen uthaanêehaak, xáyfaat ik kúkuum vúra vaa kukupeepvíkaha."
    (But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
  62. vaa ík káan i'uumêesh pámita nu'ínoohvootihirak pa'aasívak.
    You must go there where we used to stay, in the cave.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  63. xáyfaat ík ná'ay.
    You mustn't be afraid of me.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  64. xáyfaat ík íkvip."
    You mustn't run.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  65. kári xás upiip, " ivíkeesh ík átimnam.
    And it said, "You must weave a burden basket.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  66. káru taay ík vúra yáfus ikyâavish.
    And you must make many dresses.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  67. víri vaa ík i'áharameesh.
    You must follow it.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  68. kári xás kinipéer, " pa'áraar tu'ívahaak, vaa ík apmántiim kuyvúruktiheesh.
    And they were told, "When a person dies, you must rub this on his lips.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  69. xáyfaat ík kúykar pa'ápsuun pa'ôok kumáhaak."
    You mustn't kill the snakes when you see them here."
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  70. xás upíip pa'asiktávaan, " xáyfaat ík ipasúpiichva.
    And the woman said, "You mustn't reveal it.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  71. kári xás kinipêer " káan ík kúvyiihmeesh."
    And they told (the Indians) to come there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text
  72. puvéek vúra uchvánihich tóo krii, tá kunpavyíhish.
    (The sun) was not yet well out, (when) they got back.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text