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kachakâach bluejay, Steller's jay
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3690 | revised Aug 22 2005
kachakâach • N • bluejay, Steller's jay Cyanocitta stelleri.
Derivatives (2)
kachakâachich "dimin. of kachakâach 'bluejay'"
kachakach'ápuroon "cocoon, cocoon-rattle"
Source: WB 838, p.358; JPH ani 06:815
Note: Dimin. is kachakâachich.
- kachakâach uum vúra apurúvaanhanik. Bluejay used to be a sorcerer. [Reference: KM 19.11]
- kári xás kachakâach âapun upikrîish. And then Bluejay sat down on the ground. [Reference: DeA & F 3: Bluejay as Doctor 021]
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kári xás kachakâach kunpikyâarat.
So they went to fetch Bluejay.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip,
" chími kúkuum kiikpíkaan kachakâach."
So they said, "You had better go and fetch Bluejay again."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás kachakâach âapun upikrîish.
Then Bluejay sat down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás kachakâach âapun u'piiri uum tupikrîish.
But Bluejay was still sitting there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás kachakâach upíip,
" ããx fatamakêesh kich ára upêereesh!"
Then Bluejay said, "Indeed! Maybe he will say something!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
xás xanpuchíniishveenach upíip,
" kachakâach mu'ápuroon úpsiinvutih!"
Then Hummingbird said, "Bluejay does not know his medicine!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás upiip kachakâach " naa ník nipshansîipreevish."
Then Blue Jay said, "I'll carry them away."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
kachakâach u'eemhîichva.
Blue Jay pretended to be a 'doctor.'Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa vúra uum u'apunkôonaatih, kachakâach uum u'apunkôonaatih.
There she was bewitching them, Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
kári xás kachakâach káan ukrîish.
And Blue Jay sat down there.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
mán kachakâach muvéeniichva.
Why, it's Blue Jay's mischief."Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa uum kachakáach u'apunkôonaatih.
There Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii.
You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
sunyíthi tá kun'íshavsip kachakâach.
They paid Blue Jay her fee with chinquapin nuts.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
kachakâach muvéeniichva."
It's Blue Jay's mischief."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
ukachakâachhiti.
She made a noise like a blue jay.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
kachakâach ípat yíchaach mukun'ávanhanik.
Bluejay and Doe had a single husband.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti pakachakâach
" hûut áta kumá'ii pa'ípat múxuun kích kúnish poopátatih."
And Blue Jay thought, "I wonder why he sort of eats only Doe's acorn soup?"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxús kachakâach
" tîi kantharampûuki."
Then Blue Jay thought, "Let me make acorn soup!"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás úpthaaniv kachakâach,
aayâach ápsii tóo spat.
Then Blue Jay was laid up, it was because her leg was broken.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
púyava pakachakâach tóo pyávpa.
Blue Jay was well again by now.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
púyava xás paaxíich upêer pamútaat,
" úma kachakâach vaa ukupítih,
kachakáach uyveeshrîihvuti paxuun."
So the child told its mother, "Blue Jay is doing that, Blue Jay is pouring the acorn soup down."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás ta'ítam,
" chími kiikpíkaan kachakáach."
Then they said to go get Bluejay.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kachakâach káan vúra úkrii.
And Bluejay was just sitting there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kári xás kachakâach upiip,
" ããx,
naa fatamakêesh kích ára úpeereesh.
Bluejay said, "Ããx, she would just say anything to anybody.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kachakâach muvéeniichva.
It's Bluejay's doings.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kachakâach muvéeniichva.
It's Bluejay's doings.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kári xás u'árihshipriv kachakâach chanchaksúrak u'árihrupuk,
" kchkchkchkchkch."
Now Bluejay jumped up and she went out the door, "kchkchkchkchkch".Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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mâa vúra vóokxiipshiprin pakachakâach tu'árihishrih.
She flew away, she turned into Bluejay.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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