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itfak / itfáku- to look away downhill
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lexicon ID #3215 | revised Feb 09 2015
itfak / itfáku- • V • to look away downhill
| Derivation: | it-fak |
| look-from.uphill |
- víri pasáruk utfákuti, ii! yánava nani'îin tupihyaakavrínaheen. And when he looks downhillward, "Oh!" he sees it, "She has turned over my dam." [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 242-3]
- xás pasáruk nipitfákuti, víri kúna sú' upárihkaa pihneefích'anamahach. And when I looked back downhill, another coyote pup ran back inside. [Reference: DF 06: The Coyote Pups 021]
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xas pasáruk nipitfákutih víri kúna su upárihkaa pihneefích'anamahich.
I looked back just in time to see a coyote pup running back into the log.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
sáruk tóo tfákutih.
He looked downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás sáruk tóo tfákutih.
And he looked away downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
sáruk utfákutih,
yánava paaxvâahar kári vâaramas uvêehriv.
She looked downhill, she saw the pitch still standing long.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
sâam kunitfákutih.
They looked downhill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
chavúra teepshítaanivanihich axmáy vaa ukúupha,
sâam utfákutih.
Finally after a while suddenly he did this, he looked downhill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text