Ararahih'urípih
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-irak where X

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lexicon ID #2889 | revised Jun 26 2014

-irak SUFF • where X

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  1. chavúra pâanpay pirishkâarim káan uthivkêevanik, pakun'úuhyanatihirak, xás vúra uum kunvîiha pakaan u'uum.
    Then later on Grizzly Bear went in there with them, where they were talking (it) over, and they did not like it when he arrived.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  2. chavúra vaa káan u'úum paxathímtup kunikyâatihirak, pakunikyâatihirak paxathímtup.
    Then he reached the place where they fix cooked grasshoppers, where they fix roasted grasshoppers.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  3. payêem vúra vaa káan taay u'íifti, pakáan píins kun'úhthaamhitihirak.
    They grow more now where beans are planted.
    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. peehêeraha u'íiftihirak
    place where tobacco grows
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text
  5. pamupírish vúra pu'ivrárasurutihara, sákriivsha pamúpsii, ípam kunish pamupirish'ápsii, xákaan u'ifshúrootihirak sákriivsha.
    The leaves do not fall off, they are tough leaf-stemmed, thier leaves are like sinew, where the leaves grow off [from the stem] is tough.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text
  6. xás yánava pa'ifápiitsha xákarari kun'íin poothivtapárahitihirak.
    And he saw the girls sitting on each side where people were war-dancing.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  7. kâam kiimúsan póokriihvutihirak."
    Go look upriver where he's fishing."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  8. xás káakum vaa káan kun'iruvêehriv poosúruruprinahitihirak.
    And some of them were standing where the hole was (through which they had entered the sky).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  9. xás káan pa'avansáxiich tá kun'íihma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
    And the boys danced there to where the hole was.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  10. xás pihnêefich u'íipma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
    Then Coyote got back to where the hole was.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  11. kári xás kunxús pa'asiktávaansas, " hôoy uum poo'aramsîiprivtihirak.
    Then the women thought, "Where is it that he comes from?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  12. kári xás upíkvip sáruk káan pa'asiktávaansa kun'íinirak.
    Then he ran downhill to where the women lived.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  13. kári xás kíxumnipaak kúuk u'uum, pasípaam uthaanêerak.
    And he went to the corner, where the grinding slab lay.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  14. u'uum, pakun'íinirak.
    He arrived where they lived.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  15. káan uyvéesh, pakun'íinirak, pa'asiktávaan.
    He poured it there where the women were.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  16. vaa ík káan i'uumêesh pámita nu'ínoohvootihirak pa'aasívak.
    You must go there where we used to stay, in the cave.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  17. púyava pakun'ípak ôok kumeethívthaaneen vaa uum pakúphaanhanik póokupiti áraar utâanaxihitihirak.
    So when they returned to this world, they are the ones who did as it is done in the land of the dead.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  18. kári xás u'íipma pookrîirak.
    Then she went back where she was staying.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  19. papanamnihimthatváram uum vaa káan ukyâasipreehiti paGeorgia mutasa'îikukam, xás yúruk paxánthiip u'iihyírak u'ípanhitih.
    The Orleans stick-game field began there just outside Georgia's (Mrs. Georgia Henry's) fence, and it ended downriver where the black oak stands.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text
  20. púyava payítha peeshnaaníchhaak uum píshiip tu'úum patákasar uphírivirak.
    If one was swift, he arrived first where the tossel lay.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text