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itvâavnuk to look down over
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3432 | revised Aug 27 2015
itvâavnuk • V • to look down over Variant: itvâamnuk.
| Derivation: | it-vaa-vruk |
| look vaa-down.over |
Derivative (1)
ishyux'itvaavnúkraam "name of a rock on the mountainside near Ike's Falls"
- chávura aseeshtákak tupitvâavnuk. He looked down over Gap-in-the-Rock toward Katimin. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 246]
- axmáy vúra xás utvâavnuk, xeepan'ípan. Then all at once he looked over, at Xeepan'ípan. [Reference: TK 67.37]
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ifuchtîimich poopitvâavnukanik yánava pura fátaak.
The last time he looked over, (the falls) were nowhere to be seen.Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
xás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah,
tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan.
And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
kári xás vaa kâam ifuchtîimich kunítvaavnuk aseeshtákak.
And finally, at aseeshtákak, they looked over, a little ways upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
peepárihrupahaak yúruk peepitvâavnukahaak imáheesh úmkuufhitih.
When you go back downriver, as you look down over, you will see there is smoke.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text