Ararahih'urípih
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kôok / kooka- kind, variety

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3915 | revised Oct 31 2014

kôok / kooka- • N • kind, variety

Derivatives (3)
kookamáh'iit "every morning"
kôokaninay "everywhere"
kookfâachas "some things"

Source: WB 900, p.362

Note: Idiom: fâat kook 'What's that?' (WB files).

  • tâak kúkuum yíth kôok. Give me a different kind. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 395]
  • hâari vúra payváheem xavramníhak numáahti vaa kooka'úhraam. Sometimes now in old house-pits we find that kind of pipe. [Reference: TK 150.22]

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  1. xas kunpíip, "nuu nusêeyti pávaa kookapákurih."
    Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  2. vaa kôok panivíikti, arareemváram
    That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  3. víri manâa puná'aapunmutihara xás vúra xás kôok patákiram vúra kunikyâati.
    I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  4. vaa payíth kôok kuníhruuvtihanik patákiram.
    They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra ník pa'úhish ník vúra kunsánpiithvutihanik pakookâachas.
    They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text

  6. fâat kóok?
    What kind of thing is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  7. xás uxúti " vaa kíp kôok uvíshvaanti xathímtas."
    And he thought, "He just likes that kind, roasted grasshoppers."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  8. kári xás kunpiip, " fâat kóok."
    And they said, "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  9. yakún tá kun'ay, " fâat kóok."
    You see, they were afraid, (they wondered), "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  10. fâat kôok peepâanvuti iim."
    What did you paint it with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text