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ákunvar / ákunvan- to go hunting
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lexicon ID #307 | revised Oct 31 2014
ákunvar / ákunvan- • V • to go hunting
Derivation: | ákunva-ar |
hunt-go.to |
Derivative (1)
akunvarasímsiim "hunting knife"
Source: WB verbs
- xás upiip, uumkun téep kun'ákunvarat. And he said, "They've gone hunting." [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 010]
- chími nu'ákunvanveesh. We're going hunting. [Reference: KT 122b.4]
See -ar 'go to'
Sentence examples (20)
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kúkuum imáan tu'ákunvar.
Again in the morning [the next day] he went hunting.Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
kúkuum imáan tupákunvar.
The next day, he went hunting again. [The same episode is repeated several times.]Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
kári xás " chími i'ákunvar."
Then (Coyote said), "Go hunting!"Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
mah'íitnihach tá kun'ivyíihrupuk,
tá kun'ákunvanva.
Early in the morning they go out hunting.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas pakunpámvaar kun'ákunvanva.
And when they got through eating they went out to hunt.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
kúkuum mah'íitnihach tá kun'ákunvanva patá kunpámvaar.
And again in the early morning they went forth to hunt when they got through eating.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
yée ôok pámit ni'ákunvarat.
Not long ago I was out hunting.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
papishyavpîish mit ni'ákunvarat.
Last fall I went on a hunting trip.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
imáankam xás mah'íitnihach xás ni'ákunvarat.
Next morning early I went hunting.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
xás kunipêer:
" nuu chími nuvyîihshipreevish,
chími nu'ákunvanveesh."
Then they told him: "We are going out, we are going hunting."Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás vaa tá nu'ákunvar.
And we would go hunting.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vaa tá nu'ákunvar papúufich, ímpaah.
And we were hunting the deer [from the] road.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás upiip, "
uumkun tée p kun'ákunvarat."
And he said, "They've gone hunting."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
púufich u'ákunvareesh.
They were going deer-hunting.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
xás púyava kunpákunvanva,
kúkuum.
Then they went hunting again.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra imáan kunpákunvanva.
The next day they went hunting again (but were still unsuccessful).Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
yáas tá kunpákunvanva.
Then they went hunting again.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
púyava kúkuum vúra imáan tu'ákunvar.
He would go hunting again the next day.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
pakári athkuritárahiv tá kun'ákunvanva.
When it was hunting season, they went hunting.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text -
kári xás tá kunívyiihship,
tá kun'ákunvanva.
Then they went off, they went hunting.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text