Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Karuk Dictionary

by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).

New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency

Search Index

thitíima / thitíimu- to listen in a direction

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5951 | revised Jan 29 2016

thitíima / thitíimu- • V • to listen in a direction

Derivation:  thitiv-ma
hear-to

  • víri kôokaninay kúuk kunthítiimuti, peekxaréeyav mukinínaasich. They heard the deer all around. [Reference: KM 53.12]
  • víri pasáruk kúuk upthítiima, víri pakúuk upthítiima. Then he listened in downslope direction, he listened in that direction. [Reference: TK 70.23]

Sentence example (1)


Display mode: sentence | word | word components

  1. víri kôokaninay kúuk kunthítiimutih, peekxaréeyav mukinínaasich.
    They heard the deer (lit., "spirit's pets") everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text