Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).
New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Search Index
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]
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (21)
Include derivatives: yes | no
Display mode: sentence | word | word components
-
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 -
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 -
kumâam núvyiiship.
Let's go uphill.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play -
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
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play -
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
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play -
Kúkuum
Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
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 -
mâam pakúusra tuváruprav.
The sun rose just uphill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
víri káan ník mâam kun'iruveehrímpiithva.
They stood around uphill there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
" 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 -
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 -
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
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play -
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
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play -
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
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play