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pakátkat to take a taste of (something)
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lexicon ID #4496 | revised Nov 08 2005
pakátkat • V • to take a taste of (something)
Source: WB 53.1, p.316
- xás uxúti tîi kanpakatkâati. And he thought, "Let me have a taste!" [Reference: WB 3: Coyote's Journey 016]
Sentence examples (8)
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"
ée,
aaf kuna upákat."
"Oh, it tastes like manure."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
hâari tá kunpakátkat payaaf,
pakári kuntákkiritihat,
kári xás tá kunpiip:
" ihêeraha vúra kári kyóo úux payaaf."
Sometimes when they taste of acorn dough, when they are still soaking it, they say: "The acorn dough tastes as bad as smoking tobacco yet."Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
tîi kanpakatkâatih."
And he thought, "Let me taste it!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás upakatkátaheen.
So he tasted it.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
uxúti "
tîi kanpakatkâati papatúmkir."
And he thought, "Let me taste the pillows!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás poopakátkat amayaa'íshara.
And when he tasted them, they were very good-tasting.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chími chîimich vúra kanpakatkâatih."
Let me just taste a little."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kári xás uxus, "
tîi kanpakatkâati."
Then he thought, "Let me taste them."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text