Ararahih'urípih
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sipnúukan in a storage basket

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5423 | revised Dec 03 2015

sipnúukan • N • in a storage basket

Derivation:  sípnuuk-kan
storage.basket-Locative

Source: WB 1233, p.379

  • tîi naa yúrasak kanvâaram, sipnúukan su'. "Let me go down to the ocean in the basket." [Reference: (KS Crane 074)]

Sentence examples (2)


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  1. xas upíip, " chími kiik'íchunvi, sípnuukan kiik'iruváramnihi."
    But (the old man) had said, "You had better hide! Get into the storage basket, quick!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  2. xás sipnúukan kunmáhyaanatih, afrúus kunfíkriiptih.
    And they put them in a storage basket, they separated out the mildewed acorns.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text