Ararahih'urípih
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ámtaap dust, (as postpound) gray; ashes

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #346 | revised Nov 07 2014

ámtaap • N • dust, (as postpound) gray; ashes

Derivatives (9)
amtáapich "earthworm"
ámtaapkunish "gray"
amtapanatunvêech "a plant, the wooly sunflower"
amtapanás'anamahach "a type of lupine, the Miniature Lupine"
amtáparas "a type of lupine, the silver lupine"
amtaparaxáras "a type of thistle"
amtápnihich "ashy place (dimin.)"
asarakávriik_vaamtáparas "a plant, fennel"
ipámtaap "gray deer"

Source: WB 89, p.317

  • ta'ámtaap. He's already ashes (said of the dead). [Reference: JPH ethno ?:140]
  • ámtaap kích uthívpup. Just dust puffed up. [Reference: WB 01: Coyote's Journey 061]

Sentence examples (19)

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  1. vúra vaa mu'ánavhanik pa'ámtaap.
    Now ashes were his medicine.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text

  2. ta'ítam upipatvathvâanaheen pa'ámtaap.
    So he rubbed ashes all over himself.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text

  3. pihnêefich ukúphaanik, amtaap upâatvanik.
    Coyote did that, he bathed with ashes.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text

  4. ámtaap tu'íivtap.
    She had put ashes on her blanket [to make it look as if she had been lying there a long time].
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  5. imnak káru ámtaap
    Charcoal and Ashes
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  6. iheeraháamtaap
    tobacco ashes
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  7. vaa tá kunpîip: pa'amtápyuux ník yav.
    They thought the ashy earth is good enough.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text

  8. ámtaap kích uthívpup.
    Just dust puffed up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  9. xás ámtaap kích úkpuupvar apmaan.
    And just dust puffed into his mouth.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  10. xás ámtaap kích ukpúpusip.
    But just dust puffed up.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  11. xás kúkuum vúra ámtaap kích ukpúpusip pookyívish.
    And again just dust puffed up when it fell.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  12. ámtaap kích ukpúpusip.
    Just dust puffed up.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  13. ámtaap xás ukpúpusip.
    And dust puffed up.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  14. ámtaap xás ukpúpusip.
    And dust puffed up.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  15. xás upíip " amtápar vúra kan'árihish, xás paniníyuup ámtaap kamixyan.
    And he said, "Let me become covered with ashes, and let my eyes become full of ashes.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  16. ii! xás umah, yánava ámtaap kích ukrítuv.
    Oh, then she saw him, she saw just ashes lying there!
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  17. pakáan kun'axúpruuprihvuti papúufich tóo mtaapha káru tuxahavíkaha.
    (The part of the house) where they put in the dressed deer meat was dusty and cobwebby.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  18. kári xás átruup'axyar ámtaap umûutrupuk.
    And he brought a handful of ashes outdoors.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text