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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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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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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 -
vaa mu'ákah.
It's his father.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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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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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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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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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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pananí'ákah vúrava pimnáanih.
My father (gathered wood) in the summer.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
" yánava panini'áka."
"I see it is my father!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
pamu'akah'îin kunpápivar.
His father went to look for him.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
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 -
xás upiip, "
nini'ákah."
And she said, "My father!"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xás mupîimach pamu'áka uhyárih.
Next to her is standing her father.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pamu'áka mupîimach uhyárih.
Her father is standing next to her.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text