Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).
New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Search Index
imafúnvaan salmon beggar, a person who begs salmon
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2394 | revised Dec 15 2014
imafúnvaan • N • salmon beggar, a person who begs salmon
| Derivation: | imafun-va-aan |
| imafun-PL.ACT-Agentive |
Source: WB 564, p.344
- púfaat pa'áama, taay imafúnvaansa. There's no more salmon, there were so many beggars. [Reference: KT 149.37]
Sentence examples (4)
Display mode: sentence | word | word components
-
yiimúsich úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra úhyiv "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Again he shouted, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás kunthítiv,
sáruk úhyiivtih "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Then they heard him, he was shouting downhill, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vúrava kári úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
He was still shouting like that, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text