Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
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káruk upriver (a considerable distance)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3753 | revised May 15 2015
káruk • ADV • upriver (a considerable distance)
Derivatives (3)
karukúkam "upriverward"
kárukvarih "upriverward"
karúk'aasak "placename, "at the rock at Katimin Spring""
Source: WB 835.11, p.358
- vaa uum vúra káan ifmaarápiit kamíktaatroovuti, káruk uvítroovuti. Let the new married man push his way upstream there, (when) he is traveling upstream. [Reference: WB 15: Coyote As Lawmaker 009]
- âanxus uthitívanik, káruk keechxâach úkrii. Weasel heard that a widow lived upriver. [Reference: WB 18: The Perils of Weasel 001]
Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (71)
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akâayva vaa urôovanik when I was packing,
you know ...,
vúra vaa káruk xás nimah.
[talking about an unfinished basket] Somebody took it upriver when I was packing , you know, then I saw it upriver.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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manâa iim káruk va'áraar,
I guess.
Well, you're an upriver Indian, I guess.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xás uxus: "
tîi káruk kanvâarami."
He thought: "Let me go upriver."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
xas káruk kuna utápichroov.
Then he slipped in upriver direction.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
káruk tá nivâaram.
I'm going upriver.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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káruk tá nivâaram káruk va'áraas tá nímuustiheesh.
I'm going upriver and I'll see someone (an Indian person) upriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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káruk va'áraar nímuustiheesh.
I am going to see a person who lives upriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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naa pakáruk úuhyan nichuuphítih.
I am speaking the Karuk language.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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naa pakáruk úuhyan ni'ítaptih.
I know how to speak the Karuk language.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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xás panipvôonupukat,
xás kári káruk ni'árihroov.
And when it had let out, then I went upriver.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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pananichishíh'anamahach itháan káruk nu'ípasroovat,
káan úkrii chishih'aneekyáavaan.
Once we took my little dog upriver, there was a veterinarian there.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás káruk vúra...
itíhaan vúra ithéekxaram xúus ni'éethti.
And upriver ... I was taking care of him all night.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
pi'êep,
paniyáan'iiftihanhaak,
pa'ôok káruk veethívthaaneen pishîich ni'úumhaak,
papanámniik pishîich ni'úumhaak,
naa vúra xakitrahyar káru yítha hárinay kích tá níkrii.
Long ago, when I was young, when I first came to Karuk country, when I first came to Orleans, I was only 21 years old.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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kúna vúra pa'ararakéevriikshas,
pa'ararapihnîichas,
pananikáruk va'araréefyiivshas koovúra neepsháravrik.
But the Karuk old women, the Karuk old men, my Karuk friends, they all helped me.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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kúna vúra kúkuum ôok tá ni'uum,
pananífyiivshas nimúsarukti,
kári vúra pakáruk váhi ni'aapúnmiikti.
But I've come back here again, I'm visiting my friends, and I'm still learning the Karuk language.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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chavúra yíiv káruk tu'áhoo.
Finally he walked a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás chavúra yíiv káruk tu'áhoo.
And finally he traveled a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áhootih,
vúra tá yíiv káruk.
He was walking that way, a long ways upriver by this time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás yánava yíiv káruk tu'áhoo.
He saw he was a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
mít kunípaat '
káruk úuth tu'íimkar.'"
They said he drowned in the river upriver."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
upipshinvárihva peeshpúk káruk ukyâantih.
He forgot that he was going upriver to get money.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
uknîi.
púyava káruk kahyúras kun'áraarahiti paastaah.
Once upon a time... The ducks lived upriver at Klamath Lakes.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
káruk tá kunpávyiihma,
tusupaháyaachha,
pámita káan kun'arámsiiprintih.
They arrived back upriver where they came from, it was mid-morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
káruk iinâak káan tá kun'áamvunaa.
Upriver they ate there in the living house.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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kári xás uxúsaanik "
chími káruk ishpúk kanikyâan kahyúras."
And he thought, "Let me go upriver to get money at Klamath Lakes!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
káruk ishpúk ukyâaranik.
He went upriver to get money.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás vúra yíiv káruk tu'árihroov.
And he went a long ways upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás sípnuuk káruk u'êethroov.
So he took a storage basket upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás káruk u'árihroov.
So he went upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
yíiv káruk tu'árihroov.
He went far upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
káruk vúra yîiv tu'uum.
He got a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich káruk u'árihroov, kahyúras tuvâaram.
So Coyote went upriver, he was going to Klamath Lakes.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás vúra yíiv káruk tu'uum.
And he got a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vaa páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik pakáruk kahyúras uvâaramutih. kupánakanakana.
Coyote did that, when he went upriver to Klamath Lakes. kupánakanakana.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
yakún uumkun yúruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih,
káru káruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih."
They dance to the downriver end of the world, and they dance to the upriver end of the world."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich uum tá íp káruk u'árihroovat.
And Coyote went upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
pihnêefich káruk u'árihroovutih.
Coyote was going upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás chavúra yiiv káruk tu'árihroov.
And finally he went a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
káruk u'árihroov.
He went upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kunpiip, " xâatik ápap yúruk uvuunúpahitih, káru ápap káruk uvuunôovutih.
(The gods) said, "Let (the river) flow downstream on one side, and flow upstream on the other side.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
ithyáruk kúna úpviitrooveesh, uthívruuhrooveesh káru, káruk uvuunôovahiti pa'íshaha.
They would travel back upstream on the other side, they would float upstream also, the water was flowing upstream.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
vaa uum vúra káan ifmaarápiit kamíktaatroovutih, káruk uvítroovutih."
Let the new married man push his way upstream there, (when) he is traveling upstream."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " káruk ithivthaneen'ípan nivâaramutih."
And he said, "I'm going upriver to the end of the world."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kôokaninay vúra úktir paxunyêep, máruk, sáruk, yúruk, káruk.
And he beat the tan-oak trees everywhere, uphillward, downhillward, downriverward, upriverward.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
âanxus uthitívanik "
káruk keechxâach úkrii."
Weasel heard that a widow lived upriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xâatik naa káruk nivâaram."
Let me go upriver!"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
káruk u'árihroov.
He went upriver.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás káruk kunítroovutih.
And they looked upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
víri kúna káruk ukvíripvarak.
She in her turn was running down from upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás káruk tuthítiimnoov póoxruunhitih.
Then he heard her growling from upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás kári axmáy káruk ára u'árihvarak.
And suddenly a person came down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra imáan káruk tá kunítroovutih.
Again the next day they looked upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás káruk útroovutih,
axmay u'árihvarak.
Then he looked upriver, suddenly (Grizzly) came down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
káruk u'árihroonatih.
He kept going upriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
ithyarukpíhriiv u'árihroov,
uxus, "
tîi káruk kanvâarami."
Across-the-Water Widower went upriver, he thought, "Let me go upriver!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
xás kári chavúra yíiv káruk tu'árihroov.
And finally he went a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
chavúra tá yíiv káruk u'árihroov.
Finally, he went a long ways upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
káruk útroovutih.
He looked upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
víri pootâatsip pamutákasar yá káruk ithivthaneen'ípan úkuuyva.
When he tossed his tossel, he saw it landed at the upriver end of the world.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
káruk kunítroovutih.
And they looked upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káruk tá kunvitíshriihvaheen.
(The others) had beached their boats upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káruk yítha va'êem kun'êetheepanik mu'arátaanva papreacher muhrooha'íin.
The preacher's wife took the 'pain' (disease object) away from a certain doctor upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
káruk tóo ptâatroov.
He tossed it back upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
káruk tóo tâatroov.
He tossed it upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
xás payu'kúkam uumkun káruk tá kunithvíriproov.
Then the ones on the downriver end ran up.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
káruk u'írahiv.
There was a world renewal upriver.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
káruk yíiv ikhurôok tu'árihroov.
He walked far upriver on an upriver-pointing ridge.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
káruk núvyiihship tínxuumnipaak.
We went upriver to Ferry Point.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
káruk íp nifyúkutihat ítam.
Earlier today I was going around upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text -
púyava panipkárahaak payêem káruk kúna ni'árihroovish, niptakníhareesh.
When I go back across-river now, I'll go upriver, I'll go drive back.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text