Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Karuk Dictionary

by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).

New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency

Search Index

ishyáavha / ishyáavhi- to winter, to live through the winter

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3180 | revised Feb 10 2015

ishyáavha / ishyáavhi- • V • to winter, to live through the winter

Derivation:  íshyaav-ha
winter-DENOM

Source: WB 744.2, p.352

  • xás kâanimich kunkupa'áraarahiti, víri ûum kuníshyaavha. And they lived poorly, they barely made it through the winter. [Reference: WB T35.6]

Sentence example (1)


Display mode: sentence | word | word components

  1. víri ûum tá kuníshyaavha.
    They barely lived through the winter.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text