Ararahih'urípih
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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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  1. 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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  2. 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
  3. 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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  4. akâay paxuntápan ukítnaaktih?
    Who is cracking acorns?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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  5. akâay ikpúr utákirtih?
    Who is leaching acorn meal?
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. akâay u'ávaheen?
    Who ate it?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. akâay tu'áhoo?
    Who is arriving?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  16. akâay vaa tóo kúupha?
    Who did that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  17. akâay pami'áraaras?
    Who are your relatives?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  18. akâay múthyur?
    Whose car?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. akâay uum pami'ávan?
    Who is your husband?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. víri akâay vúra xákaan kunvúunveesh."
    Who will wrestle with him?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  28. 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
  29. 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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