Ararahih'urípih
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páah boat; canoe

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4413 | revised Nov 08 2005

páah • N • boat; canoe

Derivatives (4)
áhpaah "steamship"
iknukápaah "dugout boat, made from a log"
ithivthanéenpaah "car, automobile"
iviththanéenpaah "automobile"

Source: WB 1039, p.369; JPH mat 07:177-8, 15:730

Note: Contrast paah 'peppernut'.

  • cháem, maník nikyâavish pamípaah, páh'anamahach. Then she said, "All right, I'll make your boat, a little boat." [Reference: KS 25. Orleans Maiden 032]
  • xás kunipêer, chími páahak váramnih. And they told him, "Get in the boat." [Reference: WB 3: Coyote's Journey 150]

Short recordings (5) | Sentence examples (40)

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  1. ipít pápaah îikam.
    Yesterday there was a boat outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  2. ipít îikam páah utháaniv.
    Yesterday there was a boat outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  3. îikam pápaah.
    There is a boat outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  4. páah uum papúsihich úkrii.
    The cat is in the boat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  5. pananí'apxaan uum páah uthiv.
    My hat is in the boat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  6. papúsihich uum páahak úkrii.
    The cat is in the boat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  7. fâat kumapáah peekyáveesh?
    What kind of boat are you gonna make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  8. hûut uum pamípaah ikyâatih?
    How did you make your boat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  9. íshaha papáah.
    The boat is in the water.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  10. ikxúrar tóo kxánamhach, púyava tá kunvítvarakva, páahak sú' tá kun'írunaa.
    It was just getting dark in the evening, then they paddled down from upriver, they traveled in boats.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

  11. xás kunipêer " chími páahak váramnih.
    And they told him, "Get in the boat.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  12. pihnêefich " páahak" kunipêer " sú' ithxuuprámnihi."
    They told Coyote, "Lie face down in the boat."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  13. kári xás kunipêer pihnêefich " chími váripi páahak."
    And they told Coyote, "Get out of the boat!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  14. xás pápaah kunithyúruripaa.
    And they hauled the boat ashore.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  15. páahak úskaakramnih, xás ithyáruk uvíitkar.
    He jumped into a boat, and he paddled across-river.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  16. kiikthárupriini pápaah."
    Gnaw holes in the boats!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  17. kári xás kunthárupriin pápaah.
    And they gnawed holes in the boat.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  18. kári xás pápaah pakunpûukar.
    And they put out the boats.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  19. xás upíip " naa púfaat nanípaah."
    And he said, "I don't have any boat."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  20. " pûuhara, naa púfaat nanípaah."
    "No, I don't have any boat."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  21. vúra taay pápaa tá kunvitíshriihva.
    A lot of boats were beached.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  22. itahanatápasich pamukúnpaah.
    They had a whole lot of boats.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  23. xás uxus, " tîi kanpikvátan pananípaah."
    And he thought, "Let me go get my boat!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  24. xás vúra uum nîinamich pamúpaah.
    His boat was just small.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  25. pamúpaa úkvaatfak.
    He brought his boat down from uphill.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  26. vúrava kun'áchakruputih, pamukúnpaah.
    Their boats were floating in a bunch like that.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  27. xás kunvítruuprihva, pápaah.
    Then they paddled the boats through.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  28. xás koovúra tá kunvítruuprihva, itahanatápasich pápaah.
    And they paddled the whole lot of boats through.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  29. vúra uum nîinamich pamúpaah.
    His boat was just little.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  30. yúruk pápaah tá kunvitíshriihvaheen.
    Downriver they had beached the boats.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  31. xás pamúpaa upíkvaatsip, kufípniich xás uthárish.
    And he picked up his boat, and put it down in a willow grove.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  32. xás upíshunvarishuk, pamúpaah.
    So he took his boat out of hiding.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  33. xás pamúpaahak tóo pváramnih.
    And he got in his boat.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  34. xás upiip, " pûu, naa vúra pananípaa nîinamich, hôoy íf nuyâaheesh.
    And he said, "No, my boat is little, we won't fit.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  35. víri kún tá kunpáchakroov pamukúnpaah.
    There were (the others') boats floating upriver in a bunch.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  36. xás pakunipvítish upiip, " naa vúra nipíkvaatsipreevish, pananípaah."
    And when he had beached his boat again, he said, "I'll pick up my boat."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  37. káan xás pamúpaa úpthiivkurih.
    And he put the boat back in the water there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  38. xás kári koovúra tá kunpáatvunaa, xás páahak tá kunvíitkar ithyáruk pafatavéenaan.
    And everybody bathed, and they rowed the priest across-river in a boat.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  39. víri pápaa tá kunipvítish.
    They beached their boats.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  40. káru pápaa úuth uthívruuhtih.
    And the boat is floating out in the water.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text