Ararahih'urípih
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Karuk Dictionary

by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

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-ma / -mu to, toward

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4131 | revised Oct 31 2014

-ma / -mu • SUFF • to, toward

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Note: Alternant of -va (-vu). Combination with -va 'pl. suffix' is -moo.

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    1. vaa vúr upifyîimmuti pa'avansa'ávahkamvari tu'íffahaak.
      The highest it ever grows is higher than man.
      Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

    2. iinâak tóo kxipma pa'achviiv.
      The bird is flying into the house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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    3. xáyfaat tóo 'ikxipma iinâak.
      It shouldn't fly into the house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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    4. naa iinâak níkxipmeesh mikrívraam.
      I am going to fly into your house.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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    5. hûuka tóo kxipma pa'achviiv?
      To where did the bird fly?
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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    6. 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

    7. xás kunpíip " pa'avansáxiich káan tá kun'íihmahaak ík kári kupêethkeevish."
      And they said, "When the boys dance to there, you people must pull them out."
      Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

    8. xás káan pa'avansáxiich tá kun'íihma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
      And the boys danced there to where the hole was.
      Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

    9. xás peekmaháchraam kúuk u'árihma.
      Then she ran to the sweathouse.
      Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

    10. váa kúuk ukvíripma pa'ípa unhíshriihvat pa'áthiith.
      She ran there where she had tied the hazel branches.
      Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

    11. xás yáas máruk tuyshípreek kunívyiihma.
      And then they went up on the mountain.
      Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text