Ararahih'urípih
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kôokaninay everywhere

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3919 | revised Apr 21 2015

kôokaninay • PRON • everywhere Variant: kôokininay, kôokanay.

Derivation:  kôok-ninay
kind-around

Source: WB 900.2, p.362

  • uum vaa su' kôokanay tusákriivha It sticks everywhere inside you. [Reference: Nettie Reuben, "Doctoring", 1950b:16.]
  • víri uum vaa kôokininay poo'áamtihanik. And so he was eating that way everywhere. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 151]

Sentence examples (9)


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  1. kôokaninay vúr u'íiftih.
    They grow all over.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text

  2. kôokaninay vúra pakunmáahti úuth kunpíkfuutkaanva.
    Everywhere they saw him, they pushed him back out into the river.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  3. 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

  4. víri vaa kúth payêem paxuntápan kôokaninay vúra u'íiftih.
    That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  5. víri kôokinay kahyúras tá kun'aramsípriin, peekxariya'ifápiitshas.
    They came from Klamath Lakes and everywhere, the spirit girls.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

  6. áxak kunifyúkuti asiktávaansa kôokaninay.
    Two women wandered around everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  7. víri kôokaninay ni'aapúnmuti peekxaréeyav tu'íifship.
    I know everyplace that a spirit has grown up.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  8. víri kôokaninay kúuk kunthítiimutih, peekxaréeyav mukinínaasich.
    They heard the deer (lit., "spirit's pets") everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text

  9. púyava vúra vaa uthiináti papáthraam, xás kôokinay vúra u'ápiv, akâay áta mu'ífunih.
    So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text