Ararahih'urípih
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píkaar / píkaan- to go get (a person)

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lexicon ID #4845 | revised Oct 31 2014

píkaar / píkaan- • V • to go get (a person)

  • chími kanpíkaan. Let me go and get her. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 009]
  • kári xás kachakâach kunpíkaar. And then they went and fetched Bluejay. [Reference: DeA & F 3: Bluejay as Doctor 002]

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  1. kári xás kachakâach kunpikyâarat.
    So they went to fetch Bluejay.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  2. kári xás upíip, " xanpuchíniishveenach kiikpíkaan!"
    Then he said, "Go and fetch Hummingbird!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  3. kári xás kunpíip, " chími kúkuum kiikpíkaan kachakâach."
    So they said, "You had better go and fetch Bluejay again."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  4. kári xás upíip, " púxay vúra húunxayheeshara, chími akâay kích kiikpíkaan!"
    Then he said, "I cannot do any more for him, you better fetch someone else!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  5. kári xás kunpíip, " chími kúkuum vura kiikpíkaan xanpuchíniishveenach!"
    They said, "You had better call Hummingbird again!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  6. kári xás kunpikyâar.
    Then they fetched him.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  7. xás kunpíkaar.
    They went to get her [Bluejay] [for a doctor].
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  8. kári xás kúkuum kunpíkaar.
    They went to get her [Bluejay] again.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  9. " chími kiikpíkaan ansáfriik va'árah."
    "Go summon Weitchpec person!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

  10. tá kunpíkaar.
    They summoned her.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

  11. kári xás upíip " xanpuchíniishveenach kiikpíkaan.
    And (Chipmunk) said, "Go summon Hummingbird!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

  12. xás kunpiip, " chimi nupíkaan, chimi ôok kumeethívthaaneen nupípasramnihi."
    And they said, "Let's go get her, let's bring her back into this world!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  13. kári xás ta'ítam, " chími kiikpíkaan kachakáach."
    Then they said to go get Bluejay.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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  14. ta'ítam kunpikâaraheen.
    Then they went after her.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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  15. xás kári upiip, " chími akâay kích vúra káru kiikpíkaan.
    And she said, "Go get somebody else, too!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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  16. kári xás ta'ítam kunpíkaaraheen, xánkiit.
    Then they went after Bullhead.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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