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súruruprin to make holes (which go through, like the eye of a needle)
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lexicon ID #5488 | revised Jul 10 2024
súruruprin • V • to make holes (which go through, like the eye of a needle)
| Derivation: | súru-ruprin | (= su' ru-ruprin) |
| make.hole-through | (= inside ru-through) |
- vaa kumá'ii poosúruruprin. It's because he has holes around his face (gills of eel). [Reference: KS1. Eel 004]
Sentence examples (6)
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xas pa'ávansa mukun'ikrívraam váshihkam usúruruprinahiti vaa kaan kunthanfúrukvuti papúufich.
Now there was a hole in the back of the boys' house, they dragged the deer in there.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xás káakum vaa káan kun'iruvêehriv poosúruruprinahitihirak.
And some of them were standing where the hole was (through which they had entered the sky).Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás káan pa'avansáxiich tá kun'íihma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
And the boys danced there to where the hole was.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich u'íipma poosúruruprinahitihirak.
Then Coyote got back to where the hole was.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
kári xás pamukun'ikrívraam usúruruprinahiti yíthakan.
And there was a hole through (the wall of) their house at one place.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
xás ápapkam káru usúruruprinahitih.
And on the other side, there was also a hole through.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text