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árihvarak to come down from upriver
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lexicon ID #572 | revised Mar 13 2014
árihvarak • V • to come down from upriver
| Derivation: | árih-varak |
| jump-down.from.upriver |
- uum káru poo'árihvarakanik, uum káru uxúsaanik, hôoy áta ikxaréeyav nimáheesh. When she was coming downriver, she had thought to herself, I wonder where I am going to find an ikxareeyav. [Reference: KS 11. Osprey 051]
See -varak 'down from upriver'
Sentence examples (7)
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nimáheesh poo'árihvarakahaak."
I'll see him when he comes down from upriver."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
axmáy u'árihvarak.
Suddenly (the person) came down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás kári axmáy káruk ára u'árihvarak.
And suddenly a person came down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
vaa vúra kúkuum tu'árihvarak.
She came down from upriver like that again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hínupa papirishkâarim poo'arihvárakvutih.
There it was Grizzly Bear that was coming down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás káruk útroovutih,
axmay u'árihvarak.
Then he looked upriver, suddenly (Grizzly) came down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
chavúra ithivthaneen'achipkâam tu'árihvarak.
Finally he was coming down from upriver, just upstream of the middle of the world.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text