Ararahih'urípih
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ípaha tree

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2682 | revised Oct 06 2015

ípaha • N • tree Variant: ípa.

Derivatives (15; show derivatives)

Source: WB 640, p.348 ; Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians III.5.A, 47

Note: refers to tree, either in its entirety or a branchy or leafy sprig or piece of the tree; can be applied to smaller plants (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A, p. 47)

  • kári xás upiip, máruk pa'ipahákaam u'íihya. And then he said, "Uphill there is a big tree standing." [Reference: KS31. Coyote Calls Birds 020]

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  1. koova tá neekvúrish, chavúra kúkuum ni'iyruhunih, chímiva ípaha úkuyva.
    I was so tired finally I rolled it down again, but it hit a tree.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

  2. 'ípa
    tree, plant
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text

  3. pakoovúra pananuppírish puyíththaxay vúra kúnish vaa kumeekyâahara peheeraha'íppa, vúra chishihpurith'íppa kích vaa kúnish kuméekyav, pa'apxantîich îin tá kinippêer
    Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text

  4. peheeraha'íppa mupikyutunváramuu, káru koovúra pamúthvuy
    "Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  5. peheeraha'íppa pakóo uthvúyttiihva pamushvitáva
    "Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  6. koovúra peheeraha'íppa
    "The Plant"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  7. pamu'íppa
    its stalk or plant
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  8. á'yaach vúra uvêehrimva poo'íifti peheeraha'íppa.
    The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  9. peheeraha'íppa uum vúra iváxra kúnish koovúra, pu'ássarhara, sákriiv.
    The tobacco plant is all dryish, it is not juicy, it is tough.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  10. payáan vúr u'íiftihaak puxxích thúkkinkunish, peheeraha'íppa, pachím uimtúppeeshahaak, vaa kári taváttavkunish.
    When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text

  11. iheeraha'ípa
    tobacco plant
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  12. peheeraha'ípa usúufhi su'.
    The tobacco plant has pith inside.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  13. akvaat uum ípahak.
    The raccoon's in a tree.
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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  14. îikam pa'ípaha.
    There is a tree outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  15. itháantakoo vaa káan ípahak.
    Put it in the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  16. papúsihich ípahak á' úkrii.
    The cat is in the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  17. pa'ipaha tóo kyívishrih.
    The tree fell.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  18. pa'ípaha vúra yáv tóo kyívish.
    The tree fell down good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  19. a' tupáathuraa pa'ípahak pa'unúhxiitich.
    He threw the ball up into the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  20. ípahak tupáathka.
    He threw it to the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  21. máruk ípaha.
    The tree is uphill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  22. vaa káan táay pa'ápus, apus'ípaha.
    There are lots of apples; [it's an] apple tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  23. ípaha vásihkam.
    It's behind the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  24. ípaha káan ukûuntakoo.
    It [a bird] is sitting on a tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  25. ôok uum vúra taay pa'ás, púfaat páy uum pa'ípaha.
    There are many rocks, but no trees.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  26. ôok uum vúra pa'ás kích, púfaat uum pa'ípaha.
    There are only rocks here, no trees.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  27. ôok uum púfaat pa'ípaha, 'as kich.
    There are no trees here, only rocks.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  28. máruk vúra uum taay pa'ípaha.
    There are trees uphill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  29. máruk úm taay pa'ípaha?
    Are there trees up the hill?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  30. vúra uum púfaat pa'ípaha, máruk.
    There are no trees up the hill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  31. máruk púfaat pa'ípaha
    There are no trees up the hill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  32. páy uum pa'ípaha taay pásaan
    This tree has many leaves.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  33. pa'ípaha káan uhyárih.
    The tree is standing there.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  34. vaa káan pa'ípaha nitákararih
    I'm hanging on the tree.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  35. iim ipahak ihyárih?
    Are you standing in the tree?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  36. xáyfaat ípahak ihyárih!
    Don't stand in the tree!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  37. xáyfaat nani'asímnaam kutháaniv
    Don't lie on my bed! (talking to more than one person)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  38. Kúkuum
    Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text

  39. káan ípaha u'íihya.
    A tree stood there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  40. xás yánava káan axvaha'ípaha u'íihya.
    And he saw a pitch tree standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  41. xás upíip " payêem nivôoruraavish pa'ípaha.
    And he said, "Now I'll climb a tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  42. xás á' uvôoruraa ípahak.
    And he climbed up a tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  43. kári xás káan umáh akvaat, ípaha kun'irukûuntakoo.
    And there he saw raccoons, they were sitting in a tree.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  44. xás yánava káan ípaha u'íihya, xás usúrukaahitih.
    And he saw a tree standing there, and there was a hole in it.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  45. ta'ítam máh'iit yáan vúra usúpaahitih, uvôoruraa pa'ípaha.
    So in the morning it was scarcely dawn, he climbed up the tree.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  46. yukún vaa káan á' u'íithra murax'ipaha'ípan."
    He's up there at the top of a slippery tree."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  47. uum vúra vaa âanaxus úkriivkuti pa'ípaha.
    Weasel held on to the tree.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

  48. kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii.
    You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text

  49. púyava ípaha tá nishxáxaar.
    So I ripped open a tree.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  50. pa'ípaha kuníkfuukiraa.
    They grabbed the trees.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  51. xás araramvanyupsítanach uxus, " xáyfaat vaa nipiip, " tóo piip, " ípahak kích panimáahti pá'aax."
    and Horsefly thought, "Let me not say it"; he said, "I find the blood only in trees."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  52. púyava payêem patóo snur, pa'ípaha tóo kfuukiraa, tóo sxáxaar.
    So now when it thunders, (Lightning) grabs the trees, he rips them open.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  53. kári xás koovúra papinishtunvêechas káru koovúra pa'ípaha kunihyûunishtih, " kunâach'aa, puxîichi."
    And all the little plants and all the trees shouted to him, "Go to it, kunâach'aa!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  54. pa'ípaha u'íihya patáaskar tá kunimthátap.
    Where a tree stood, they lashed a pole to it.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text

  55. paxuntápan uum kun'ífiktih, ípahak kun'íiftih.
    They picked the acorns, they grew on trees.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text

  56. pavuráakir uum vúra ípaha pookyâarahitih.
    The ladder was made of a tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text

  57. hári tá mít ukpákishrihat pa'ípaha.
    He cut down a tree sometime (recently).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text

  58. víri vaa káan ípaha u'íihya.
    There is a tree standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  59. káru ávansa káan uhyárih, úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
    And a man is standing there, he is pointing at the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  60. víri vaa vúra yítha úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
    There is one pointing at the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  61. víri vaa vúra úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
    There is (one) pointing at the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  62. payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan, úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
    Now a woman is the one standing, she is pointing at the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  63. xás uum káru úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
    She too is pointing at the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  64. yeeripáxvu uhyárih, úksuupkuti ípaha, káan u'íihya.
    A girl is standing, she is pointing at a tree, it is standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  65. kúkuum vúra payeenipaxvúhich káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
    Again the little girl is standing there, she is pointing at the tree like that.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  66. xás avansáxiich uum u'áhootih, pa'ipahasúruk kúnish tu'uum.
    A boy is walking in front, he is sort of going under the tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  67. xás pa'avansáxiich ipahasúruk tu'uum.
    The boy is going under a tree.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  68. káan tishrámkaam, xás úhthaamhitih, káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
    A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  69. páy uum pichas'ípaha uvêehrimva, xás simsímtas utaaspáthahitih.
    These peach trees are standing, and there is a wire fence around.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  70. xás ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
    A little tree is standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  71. pa'amkír káan utháaniv, xás ukxúrikahiti ávahkam ípaha.
    The table is sitting there, and a tree is drawn on top.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  72. xás tu'ûusip pa'ípaha, xás yiivári kúuk tu'íipma.
    He picks up the tree, and goes away again.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text