Ararahih'urípih
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mâam uphill (a short distance)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4147 | revised Aug 05 2014

mâam ADV • uphill (a short distance)

Derivatives (2)
asipakmâam "placename, a target station near Katimin"
tuyvukmâam_va'ahíram "name of a fireplace near Orleans"

Source: WB 953.19, p.365

Note: Contraction of mâakukam, mâakam; never glottalized.

  • xás víri kúna kumâam kunihmárafak pakah'árahsas. And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them. [Reference: WB 10 Coyote Steals Fire 057]


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  1. xás mâamvanihich tá kun'írunaa.
    Then they traveled up slope a little ways.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  2. chôora kumâam!
    Let's go uphill!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play
  3. kumâam núvyiiship.
    Let's go uphill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  4. ipít kumâam núvyiishipriv.
    Yesterday we went up the hill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  5. kumâam tá ni'árihishrih.
    I made it to the top of the hill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  6. Kúkuum
    Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
  7. xás víri kúna kumâam kunihmárafak pakah'árahsas.
    And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  8. mâam pakúusra tuváruprav.
    The sun rose just uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text
  9. uxútih, " kumâam úkrii, pakúusrah."
    He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text
  10. xás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah, tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan.
    And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text
  11. káru pa'avansáxiich uum tá mâam kun'íkakraa.
    And the boys were already climbing uphill.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  12. víri káan ník mâam kun'iruveehrímpiithva.
    They stood around uphill there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  13. kári xás poovâaram, mâamvanihich tóo kfuukra.
    So when he went, he climbed a little ways uphill.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
  14. víri kún mumâam áxak ifápiitsha kunirúfak.
    There uphill from him two young women came down.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  15. xás pámita îin kunsíitvat úpeenti " xáyfaat mâam kúuk ikuníhivraa."
    And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  16. xás mâam kúuk ukúniihva yiimúsich vúra.
    So he shot a little ways uphillward.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  17. " púya mâam kanéepeentih, axicha'êechkeepuhich níkrii."
    "Say, I'm told uphill, I'm a kidnapped child!"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  18. púyava patóo kvíripuni pa'áthiith tóo kuuyva, mâam xás tupikyívish.
    And when he ran downhill, he hit the hazel branches, and he fell back to the ground uphill.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  19. mâam patusúpaaha maruk too trâa tuvásip.
    When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  20. kumáam vúra hôoy upíip poo'aramsîip tuvásip.
    He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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  21. payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih.
    He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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