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akâay who?; anyone
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #234 | revised Nov 07 2014
akâay • PRON • who?; anyone Variant: akáray.
Derivative (1)
akâayva "anyone, someone, whoever"
Source: WB 52, p.316
Note: After pu- 'not,' the allomorphs akára and kára occur.
- kunípaanik, akáray áta. They said, "We'll see who wins." [Reference: KS2.Turtle & Abalone 002]
- chími akâay kích kiikpíkaan. Go fetch someone else! [Reference: DeA & F 3: Bluejay as Doctor 016]
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akâay uum mi'áraar?
Who are your relations?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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kári xás upíip,
" púxay vúra húunxayheeshara,
chími akâay kích kiikpíkaan!"
Then he said, "I cannot do any more for him, you better fetch someone else!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
akâay?
akâay poo'iithvútihanik?
Who? Who was packing it?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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akâay paxuntápan ukítnaaktih?
Who is cracking acorns?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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akâay ikpúr utákirtih?
Who is leaching acorn meal?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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akâay uum panámnik uvâarameesh?
Who's going to go to Orleans?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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akâay pa'áama u'áamtih?
Who's eating the salmon?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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akâay u'ávaheen?
Who ate it?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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akâay vaa káan úkrii pa'ikrívkir.
There is someone sitting there in the chair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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akâay vaa káan úkreenik pi'êep?
Who lived there long ago?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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akâay sáruk tu'árihfak?
Who walked down the hill?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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akâay sáruk tóo árihfakuheen ipit?
Who walked down the hill yesterday?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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akâay iim mi'áraaras?
Who are your relatives?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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akâay mi'áraaras?
Who are your relatives?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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akâay tu'áhoo?
Who is arriving?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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akâay vaa tóo kúupha?
Who did that?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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akâay pami'áraaras?
Who are your relatives?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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akâay múthyur?
Whose car?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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akâay tóo knáknak?
Who is knocking?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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akâay ukyâanik vaa pa'ápxaan?
Who made your hat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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akâay uum pami'ávan?
Who is your husband?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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íkiich káru vúra mutípa káru muxúkam káru vúra akâay vúra pamu'áraar.
Maybe too it would be his brother or his uncle or any relative of his.Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
kári xás upiip,
achiimuuchpihnîich, "
akâay tutháfip naníxraat.
Then Old Man Lizard said, "Who ate up my gooseberries?Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " akâay tutáayvaar panani'íin."
And he said, "Who spoiled my falls?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " akâay kích vúra ipshansîipreevishan pamu'ípih."
And he said, "Who is going to carry away her bones?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " akâay uum páxuus êethtiheeshan."
And they said, "Who will take care of it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
víri akâay vúra xákaan kunvúunveesh."
Who will wrestle with him?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
púyava vúra vaa uthiináti papáthraam,
xás kôokinay vúra u'ápiv,
akâay áta mu'ífunih.
So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
xás kári upiip,
" chími akâay kích vúra káru kiikpíkaan.
And she said, "Go get somebody else, too!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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