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kúupha / kúuphi- (variant kupi) to do
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4086 | revised Oct 31 2014
kúupha / kúuphi- • V • to do
Variant kupi (lexicon ID #7809): Used with the durative suffix -ti(h)
Derivatives (8)
kúphaan "doer, one who does"
kúphaat "did (past tense)"
kuphákaam "Ghost Dance, Round Dance"
kupháraha "to happen"
kuphêen "did (anterior tense)"
kuphêesh "will do"
kúupha "doing, way of doing things, custom"
seeykúupha "to not to get along with (someone)"
Source: WB 926, p.363
Note: Irregular tense forms: ukúphaanik 'he once did it' (ancient tense, G822.3); ukúphaat 'he did it (past tense, G534); ukúpheen 'he had done it' (anterior tense, G822.2); ukuphêesh 'he will do it' (future tense, G822.1); ukupíti 'he's doing it' (durative, G757). All forms of this verb are often unaccented when at the end of a sentence (cf. TK 53.28).
- páy uum kuuphi. Do it this way! [Reference: KV]
- pikváhahirak káru vúra vookúphaanik axraas. In the myth time, Gopher did the same thing. [Reference: TK 66.15]
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