Ararahih'urípih
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káakum some

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3667 | revised Oct 30 2014

káakum • NUM • some

Derivative (1)
kakúmniik "in some places"

Source: WB 845, p.359

  • kári xás káakum uumkun kun'ákunvuti púufich. And some of them are hunting deer. [Reference: KS 22. Maruk'áraar Gives Man Bread 005]
  • kánpaatishrihi káakum paxúrish. Let me load up some of the shelled acorns. [Reference: WB T64.3]

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  1. karu kâakum kumatupichas-háyaachas xakinivki'itráhyar chávura nimma koovura.
    Then there were a lot of smaller ones, so that in the end I had seventy dollars in all.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text

  2. hâari víriva káakum kêe[chas] úruhsas
    Sometimes, some of the big ones are round.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

  3. káakum vúra a'vári poo'íifti, káru káakum vúra âapunich.
    Some [tobacco plants] grow low, some high.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

  4. peethríhar káru kunpathraamvútiihva payeeripáxvuuhsa, ithasúpaa kunpathraamvútiihva, káru káakum uumkun kuntávtiihva yúpin.
    Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text

  5. xás kâakum tá kunpiip, " atafâat uum pihnêefich.
    And some of them said, "Maybe he's Coyote.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  6. xás pa'ávansas káakum kunihmáraroov.
    And some of the men ran upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  7. xás káakum vaa káan kun'iruvêehriv poosúruruprinahitihirak.
    And some of them were standing where the hole was (through which they had entered the sky).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  8. káakum upthapákpak, xás upaxyápithva.
    He chewed up some of it and threw it away.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  9. kánpaatishrihi káakum paxúrish.
    Let me load up some of the shelled acorns!
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

  10. káakum pa'éekoons táay vúra tá kun'ífik, xás itahara'átimnam kóo tóo píishha.
    Some people gathered a lot of acorns, and put as many as ten baskets to soak.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text

  11. káru káakum mah'íitnihach kuntátapvunaati.
    And some men were trapping early in the morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text

  12. káru hâari tu'ísh káakum pa'ánav.
    And sometimes (the patient) drank some of the medicine.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text