Ararahih'urípih
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by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

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itvûu to look toward

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3436 | revised Aug 18 2015

itvûu • V • to look toward

Derivation:  it-vuu
look vuu

Derivative (1)
itvûunih "to look down from a height; to look down from uphill"

Source: WB 747.12, p.353

  • xás yiimúsich kúuk utvûuti. Then a little ways off there he was looking. [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 030]
  • yíthakam kúuk utvûuti. He's looking the other way. [Reference: KV]

Sentence examples (2)

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  1. xás ífuthkam kúuk upitvûutih.
    And he looked behind him.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  2. kári xás kunítvuutih.
    And they looked there.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text