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kâam a little ways upriver
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3669 | revised Sep 10 2015
kâam • ADV • a little ways upriver
Source: WB 835.9, p. 358; Shivshaneen, 1996, (8.2)
Note: No glottalization at end of utterance.
- athithúfvuunupma kumakâam va'áraaras vaa vúra kári kunvíkahiti pananúvik. The people a little upriver from Happy Camp weave our kind of basketry. [Reference: TK 128.6]
- xás víri vúra úxyar pa'áama, xás kuníhmararishuk, xás kâam xavisharáthuuf kunihmárakurih. And they (the salmon) ran out (of a container), and a little ways upriver they ran into Ike's Gulch. [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 045]
Sentence examples (16)
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kâam uum Chester pá'ukriivtih.
Chester lives up the river a little ways.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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kâam papúufich tá nimah.
I see the deer up the river.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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xás kâam útroovutih.
And he looked upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
miník ni'ísheesh kâam."
I'll drink upriver a ways."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kâam kiimúsan póokriihvutihirak."
Go look upriver where he's fishing."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yúruk pakunpávyiihma tá kunpiip, "
uum vúra pihnêefich kâam úkriihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
And when they got back downriver, they said, "It's Coyote upriver fishing, he's singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
chíshki kúkuum kâam kiikpimúsan.
Go look upriver again quick!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich sú' uhyívkaanva "
ararátaay kiihmárarishuki,
xás kâam kiihmáraroov."
And Coyote shouted in through it, "Lots of people, come out, and run upriver!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás patishanihyûum ukvíriprup víri kúna kâam pa'îin kun'áharamuti tá kunihmáravarak.
And when he ran downriver from tishániik, the ones following him were running down just upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
víri kúna kukâam tóo kvíripvarak.
(Bear) in turn was running down from close upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás upêer
" xáyfaat ík vúra haríxay kâam kúuk i'íipma.
And he told him, "You mustn't ever go back upriver there.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
chavúra ithivthaneen'achipkâam tu'árihvarak.
Finally he was coming down from upriver, just upstream of the middle of the world.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | 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 -
kári xás kunipéer, "
mâa kâam vuhvúha ukyáati pakúth ivúrayvutih.
And (the old woman) said, "Look, the one you are wandering around for is making a deerskin dance uphill.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kâam kunikfúyvuunish.
He was whistled at, a little ways upriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
xás paapxantínihich upíip "
chími kâam vâarami peevapithváram.
And the white man said, "Go upriver to the store!Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text