Ararahih'urípih
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írunaa (pl.) to go, walk, travel

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lexicon ID #2924 | revised Jan 22 2015

írunaa • V • (pl.) to go, walk, travel

Derivation:  iru-naa
PL come

  • vaa ík vúra ku'írunaatiheesh. You folks must be traveling. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 243]
  • vaa takunpírunaa ikurâak. They're starting up the ridge. [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 009]
  • xás koovúra peekvípaansa vaa kunkupa'írunaa. And all the runners went on that way (i.e., at intervals). [Reference: WB 10 Coyote Steals Fire 019]

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  1. pahûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak vaa vúra kóo itíhan kuméekxaram nanitúnviiv vaa pay'ôok kun'írunaatiheesh.
    As long as people live, every night my children will pass right here.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  2. kári xas kunpiip: " chími nu'írunaa, pay uum vúra pihnîichich."
    Then they said: "Let's travel; it is some old man."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text

  3. xás mâamvanihich tá kun'írunaa.
    Then they traveled up slope a little ways.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  4. ikxúrar tóo kxánamhach, púyava tá kunvítvarakva, páahak sú' tá kun'írunaa.
    It was just getting dark in the evening, then they paddled down from upriver, they traveled in boats.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

  5. xás koovúra peekvípaansa vaa kunkupa'írunaa.
    And all the runners went on that way (i.e., at intervals).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

  6. xás kunpiip, " vaa vúra kun'írunaatiheesh patur."
    And then they said, "The basket-loads will walk (home by themselves)."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text

  7. xás pa'áraar poo'îinhiti víriva musúrukam kun'írunaatih.
    And the people traveled behind where the falls were.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text

  8. kári xás kunpiip, " hûut nukupa'írunaavish."
    And they said, "How shall we go?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  9. ta'ítam vaa kun'irunaakíraheen.
    So they went up on it.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text