Ararahih'urípih
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kíri I wish ...; let .., may ... (expresses wish)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3857 | revised Jun 30 2005

kíri PCL • I wish ...; let .., may ... (expresses wish)

Derivative (1)
kínikini "I wish that ..."

Source: WB 885, p.361

Note: Used with indicative verb forms to express wishes.

  • puxútihap kíri u'íinka puxich. They don't want it to burn too much. [Reference: TK 64.16]
  • hâari pakunxútihaak kíri taay, ikravaramûuk takuníkchur. Sometimes when they want there to be lots (of tobacco), they pound it with a pestle. [Reference: TK 97.29]


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  1. atafâat ixúti " kíri ni'am."
    Maybe you think you want to eat something.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. " íshaha" húm xâatik " kíri ni'ish"?
    Did you want to drink water?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  3. " íshaha" xaat íim " kíri ni'ish"?
    Do you want water?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  4. xaat úm kíri íshaha natêeki!"?
    Do you want to drink water?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  5. " chi váa kúuk kiik'uumi, kíri váa káan ku'iin, kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas."
    "Go over there to live! That's where we want you to live! You had better marry those boys, they are such good hunters!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  6. íp vúra nik nixútihat, kíri nivik ítam, pâanpay tá na'ûuriha.
    I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  7. " kíri kanaxusêer puthitíimtihara."
    "I wish they would think about me that I can not understand."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text
  8. uum vúra kunxúseentihanik kíri hûuk u'uum, vúra kunvîihanik.
    They had been wishing for him to go off, for they disliked him.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  9. íshaha uhi, kíri usah'áhupha."
    May the river rise, so there will be lots of driftwood."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  10. kiri a' u'íthimship.
    Would that she would lie stomach up.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text
  11. kíri a' u'íthimship."
    Would that she lie stomach up."
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text
  12. kári xás upiip: " uum vúra vaa páy arara'îin kunxúseentih kíri âapun úyruuhriv.
    Then she said: "Someone is causing her sickness.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  13. Xás payêem paxanchíifich tóo xus, " Kíri naa káru nipáatveesh."
    And now the frog is thinking, "I want to take a bath, too."
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  14. fâat ixútih" kíri ni'av"?
    What do you want to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  15. xasík nupêenti " chími payêem nuxúti kíri gravy núkyav."
    Then we told her we “Now we would like to make gravy.”
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  16. káru vaa pafâat ixútihaak " kíri nímnish."
    (She told me to cook) whatever I wanted to.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  17. kári xás pahári vúra tá nixusâak kíri pâay níkyav, pananítaat tóo piip" chími man ikyav!"
    Whenever I wanted to make a pie, my mother would tell me, “Go ahead.”
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  18. naa vúra pu naxútihan, kíri kunikviit-hívath.
    I just didn't want them to put him to sleep.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  19. xás uxus, " kíri páy kári vaa ni'ish."
    And he thought, "I wish I could drink that."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  20. kíri íshaha úxrah."
    May he get thirsty!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  21. víri vaa kunkupítih, pa'asiktávaansa kunxúti " kíri nutururípan pa'áhup."
    They were doing that, the women were trying to hook out the sticks.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  22. chiimuuch'îin kunxúseeranik " kíri vaa ukúupha, pufáat vúra yávheeshara."
    Lizard thought about him, "Let him do that, nothing will be any good."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  23. " káru hôoy patanúpviitma, kíri nimah.
    "And where have we paddled to? I want to see!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  24. kíri vúra yunâamich ni'itxâarihva."
    Let me open my eyes just a little!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  25. kíri chími áas uxráheesh."
    Let him get thirsty!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  26. kíri nupíraanva.
    Let's trade!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  27. chími árihish pamipákurih, kíri ni'ítap."
    Sing your song, let me learn it!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  28. xás tá kunxús " kíri kun'ípak."
    Then (people) thought, "Let them come back!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  29. " kíri níhmaachichva."
    He thought, "Let me fool around with her!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text
  30. vaa kíri ni'av, pakéech."
    Let me eat that one, the big one!"
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  31. víri vaa nixútih, ' kíri ni'axaychákish.'"
    I am thinking, 'Let me catch him!'"
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  32. pakunxútih " kíri nu'áapunma ' hûut kumá’ii pakunyíkihiti' " púyava kári xás kunpíkav xánkiit.
    When they thought, "Let's find out why they are sick," then they summoned Bullhead.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text
  33. kíri naa vúra kích yaas'arara'îin na'áamti káru tápas neekyâavish."
    May Mankind eat me alone and take care of me!"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  34. kóova kíri kanéepshaamkir.
    They wanted so much to leave me behind.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  35. papirishkâarim tá kuníkfuukiraa yuuxmachmahánach, uxus, " kíri ni'ax."
    Grizzly (in her death throes) grabbed at Lizard, she thought, "Let me kill him!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  36. chavúra kun'áapunma, hínupa êeth, hínupa uxúti, " tá taay, kíri pácheech ni'av."
    Finally they found out, there it was Slug, there he thought, "There's a lot, let me eat it by myself!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  37. xás uxús " kíri kinpíychaak pamutúnviiv."
    And he wished that his children would have bad luck.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  38. púyava kári xás ta'ítam uvíkaheen.
    And so then she wove.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  39. kíri naa káru íshkiit na'árihish."
    Let me become lucky too!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  40. " kíri kunxús ' taayvávan panu'áraarahitih.'"
    "Let them think we are a lot of people!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  41. púyava xákaan vúra patá kunxús " kíri nutâatsip."
    Both (men) thought, "Let's toss it!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text
  42. xás panunu'ífunih vúra xávish mûuk nupákootih, kíri vâaramas u'if, panunu'ífunih.
    And we whipped our hair with syringa, (thinking), "Let our hair grow long!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text
  43. puxích kúnish upáthriihtih, víri puxútihap " kíri nupêer paaxíitichas ' ôok kóova nu'am.'"
    It's sort of raining hard, so they don't want to ask the (neighbor's) children to eat here with them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "A Birthday Party" (WB_KL-89) | read full text
  44. íi, kári xás kunxus, " púya íf puxích too kúha, kíri xuus kun'uum."
    And they were thinking that she's really sick, that she needs to get doctored.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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  45. xás uxútih kíri vaa káan ni'uum, pakáan kúusrah hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih.
    He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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