Ararahih'urípih
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iktir / iktin- to hit by throwing (a hard object)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2138 | revised Dec 07 2014

iktir / iktin- • V • to hit by throwing (a hard object)

Derivative (1)
iktinpíithva "to be scattered all over"

Source: WB 516, p.341

Note: Cf. ákithtir 'to hit by throwing a soft mass'.

  • ásamuuk iktin. Throw a rock and hit it! [Reference: KV]
  • yíth kúna takuníktir, pa'áavkam vaa kúna îin takun'êechipriv. To a different one in turn they tossed her, she was carried by the ones ahead in turn. [Reference: KT 131.8]

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  1. uktinvunáatih.
    She is hitting them with rocks.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  2. sára mûuk tóo ktinvunaa.
    She hit them with bread.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  3. pasára vúra tóo ktinvunaa táay pa'áraaras.
    She threw bread at a lot of people.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  4. pa'sára vúra tóo ktir.
    He threw the bread at him (and hit him).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  5. tóo ktir pa'ávansa.
    She threw it at the man (and hit him).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  6. pa'ás mûuk vúra tóo ktir pa'ávansa.
    She hit the man with rocks.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  7. kári xás kôokaninay vúra úktir paxunyêep, máruk, sáruk, yúruk, káruk.
    And he beat the tan-oak trees everywhere, uphillward, downhillward, downriverward, upriverward.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  8. káriva kumûuk tóo ktir, áriim tuthantífish.
    She hit him with them, knocked him dead.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  9. kári xás vaa kumûuk úktir.
    And she hit at him with it.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  10. vaa kúna kumûuk úktir.
    She hit at him with it in turn.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  11. (. . .) áxruu áhup mûuk kuníktiinvuti.
    (Weasel met two boys who were trying to hunt gray squirrels, but had no bows.) They were throwing sticks at the gray squirrels.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text