Ararahih'urípih
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imváram plate basket, an openwork basket used for salmon; any plate (O'Neale, p. 33)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2589 | revised Dec 17 2014

imváram N • plate basket, an openwork basket used for salmon; any plate (O'Neale, p. 33)

Derivation imva-rav-a
imva-in-DEVERB

Derivatives (2)
imvaná'anamahach "small plate basket used to take hot rocks out of soup"
arara'imváram "basket plate"

Source: WB 612, p.346; JPH mat ?:88, ethno ?:160

Note: Locative imváravak (TK 92.19).

  • koovúra paxun'ávahkam peemvárammuuk takunpíthxuupva. (The girls) covered all the mush bowls with the plates. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 016]


Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (11)

  1. imváram "plate basket" (spoken by Lucille Albers)
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  2. imváram "plate" (spoken by Vina Smith)
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  3. nini'arara'imváram "my (Indian) plate basket" (spoken by Lucille Albers)
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