Ararahih'urípih
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-ar / -ara- Instrumental; Agentive

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lexicon ID #504 | revised Oct 31 2014

-ar / -ara- • SUFF • Instrumental; Agentive

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    1. pi'êep kunipítih, payupsíriharas uum vaa xás mukunfikríparas.
      Long ago, they say, the blind people were their sorters.
      Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
      Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

    2. Hey vaa panimáharati naa káru, Violet vaa pay...
      I copy that too, like Violet ...
      Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
      Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

    3. pavíkahar kêechasahiruva, I couldn't do that.
      If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that.
      Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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    4. váa vúra payváheem úthvuuyti pirishkaarim'áhasurar, peekriripanpákurih.
      It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs.
      Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

    5. uhtatváraar
      sweathouse tobacco lighting stick
      Source: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text

    6. nishxâareesh pananiishxâar.
      I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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    7. pananiishxâar nishxâareesh payêem.
      I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole now.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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    8. peekrupkáanvar nihrúuvti pa'as vaa nishxâareesh.
      I am going to go fishing with a fork.
      Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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    9. peekxúrar púvaxay thivrúhish, koovúra axupa'ithvutiharamúrax.
      When evening hadn't (even) floated down yet, they were all doing nothing but carrying dressed deer meat.
      Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text

    10. púyava pootáyiithharati yíiv vúra tá kun'aramsípriin, kúnikvárishtih, xáat káru vikakêemich.
      So when she lashed the base of a basket with them, people came from far away, they bought from her, (though) she might be a poor weaver.
      Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text