Ararahih'urípih
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ápxaan basket cap; hat (of any kind) (O'Neale, pp. 41-43)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #483 | revised Nov 07 2014

ápxaan N • basket cap; hat (of any kind) (O'Neale, pp. 41-43)

Derivatives (27; show derivatives)

Source: WB 126, p.319; TK 46.15; JPH mat 732

  • itha'ápxaan one hatful (a measure of acorns) [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 165]


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  1. 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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  2. naa pananí'apxaan uum níthxuunatih.
    I am wearing my hat on my head.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  3. yáxa pamu'ápxaan.
    Look at his hat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  4. pa'ápxaan tu'íinka.
    The hat burned.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  5. pa'ápxaan vúra tu'íinka ikxáramkunish.
    The hat burned black.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  6. akâay ukyâanik vaa pa'ápxaan?
    Who made your hat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  7. naa nikyâat pa'ápxaan.
    I made my hat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  8. nipikyâavish pa'ápxaan.
    I will make another hat.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  9. pamukun'ápxaan tá kunvíikvunaa.
    They were weaving their caps.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  10. nuu tá núpthith panunúpxaan."
    We've finished weaving our caps."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  11. xánpuut kípa fâat pamúpxaan káru xánthiip.
    Maul Oak and Black Oak had beautiful caps.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  12. xás xuntápan kunipêer " hûut iim u'íinati kúth papu'ipthíthaheen pamípxaan."
    And they said to Tan Oak Acorn, "What's the matter with you that you didn't finish weaving your cap?"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  13. káruma ník apxanyâamachas tá kunpithxunátiihva, yaas'arara'îin pu'ithváaftiheeshap."
    The fact is, (the others) wear pretty caps, (but) Mankind won't have much use for them.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  14. kári xás kunpithxunásiipreen pamukun'ápxaan.
    And they put on their basket-caps.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  15. koovúra yâamachas pamukun'ápxaan.
    All their caps were pretty.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  16. kári xás uum paxuntápan uum vúra pupikyáarara pamúpxaan.
    But Tan Oak Acorn didn’t finish her cap.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  17. pahûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak víri naa vúra kích kaná'aamtiheesh, káruma apxankêemich paninípxaan."
    However long Mankind exists, he will eat only me, (though) the fact is that my cap is a poor cap."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  18. xás pamúpxaan upûusur.
    And she took off her hat.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  19. xás patóo píishrav xás pamúpxaan umchanáknak páapsiih.
    And when she had drunk from it, she knocked her hat on his leg (to shake the water out).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text
  20. pamúpxaan ápapvari xás póothxunatih.
    And she was wearing her cap over on one side.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  21. pamukun'ápxaan ukyâarahiti sárip káru sárum.
    Their hats were made with hazel twigs and pine-roots.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text
  22. xás pamukun'ápxaan uum uvíkahiti pasárum mûuk káru papanyúrar káru peekritápkir káru patíiptiip.
    And their hats were woven with the pine-roots and the bear-lily leaves and the five-finger fern and the chain fern.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text