Ararahih'urípih
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ákah father

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lexicon ID #236 | revised Nov 07 2014

ákah N • father

Derivative (1)
akáhyaan "stepfather"

Source: WB 50, p.316

  • hínupa páy vaa pani'ávanhiti panani'ákah. It was my father that I married. [Reference: KT 161.6]
  • xás takunipêer pamukun'ákah, yee! arákaas, hûut ti'iin. And they said to their father, "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?" [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 026]


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  1. fâat kumá'ii pananítaat káru panani'áka tá kuniyâaram, fâat kumá'ii?
    Why did they take my father and mother away?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  2. xás pihnêefich upíip, tá kunchúuphinaa, pa'avansáxiichas kóova tá kunchúuphinaa kóova pa'avansáxiichas, xás upíip: "hôoy mikun'ákah?"
    Then Coyote said, the boys talked with him, they talked to him, the boys talked with him, and he said: "Where is your father?"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  3. vaa mu'ákah.
    It's his father.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  4. panani'ákah vúra tupihnîichha.
    My father is old.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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  5. panani'ákah vúra uum tupihnîichha.
    My father is old.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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  6. pamu'ákah uum îikam.
    His father is outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  7. hûut kích pami'ákah?
    How's your father?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  8. pananí'ákah vúrava pimnáanih.
    My father (gathered wood) in the summer.
    Source: Vina Smith, Gathering wood (VS-47) | read full text
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  9. ayu’âach púfaat pa'ávansa iináak, panini'ákah uum támit u'ívat.
    It was because there was no man in the house, my father had died.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
  10. xás poovôonupuk pa'ávansa, víri vúra vaahyâach pamu'áka.
    And when the man came out, he was just like her father.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  11. xás upíti " chími pami'áka pimúsan."
    Then (her husband) said, "Go see your father again."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  12. xás pâanpay xás uxús " naa nixúti ' napikshayvûunishti,' yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti panunú'uup, káru uum vúra vaa umúsahiti panini'áka.
    Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  13. " yánava panini'áka."
    "I see it is my father!"
    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. kári xás upêer pamú'aramah, " chími pami'áka êehi paxuun."
    And she told her child, "Give your father his acorn soup!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  16. pamu'akah'îin kunpápivar.
    His father went to look for him.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  17. kári xás pihnîichich uvôonsip, pamukun'ákah.
    Then the old man got up, their father.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  18. xás upiip, " nini'ákah."
    And she said, "My father!"
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text
  19. xás mupîimach pamu'áka uhyárih.
    Next to her is standing her father.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  20. xás pamu'áka mupîimach uhyárih.
    Her father is standing next to her.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text