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ívur / ívun- to cry for, to mourn for
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lexicon ID #3479 | revised Oct 31 2014
ívur / ívun- • V • to cry for, to mourn for
Source: WB 799, p.356
- pathakan'ávak takunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan. Their dresses were all tattered up above the knees with the tears that they cried for Klamath Lakes Young Man. [Reference: WB T51.35]
- vaa kích pooxáxanaati, pakun'ívunti. They were all weeping, crying for him. [Reference: TK 70.25]
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táay nik tá kunchífich vúra pu'ixraratihara,
váa xás u'ívur pamúkiit muyáfus.
They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
víri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti,
pakunpáxeepanik,
pamúkiit muyáfus.
He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
víri vaa kunkupitih,
pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan.
They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text