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]

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  1. itráhyar pa'asípiitsa káru vaa kóohoo imvarámpiitsa káru itráhyar síkih.
    There were ten new bowls, and also ten new plates, and also ten spoons.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  2. koovúra paxuun ávahkam pa'imváram mûuk tá kunpithxupva.
    And each bowl was covered with its plate.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  3. hôoy if imvárak xuun íktaamsipreevish.
    You can't pick up acorn soup in a plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

  4. víri vaa kích peemváram i'ítap.
    You only learned the plates.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. vaa peemváram kích vaa uum kích nixúti, vaa tákiram.
    All I know about plates is for soaking acorn dough
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. káru papufich'imváram uum yith,
    And the deermeat plate is different.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  7. Oh yeah, I never did see a pufich'imváram.
    Oh yeah, I never did see a deermeat plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  8. víri vaa vúra kich pa'imváram kun'ítaptih.
    They only learned about the Indian plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  9. Ain't anybody knows how to make that pufich'imváram.
    Nobody knows how to make a dearmeat plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  10. koovúra imváram u'ifkóohiti pa'ásip.
    And the plate-baskets (for the salmon) fit into the soup baskets.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text

  11. píshiip tá kuniptáthrip imvarámkaam.
    First they strained them with a big tray-basket.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text