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-ti / -tih Durative
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lexicon ID #6035 | revised Mar 08 2024
-ti / -tih • TAM • Durative
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Source: WB G757
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nuykáreesh pa'îin púufich i'êethiipvutihat."
We will kill the one who has been taking the deer from you."Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
panámniik ni'aramsîiprintih.
I'm coming from Orleans.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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fâat ikyâatih?
What are you doing?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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purafâat neekyâatihara.
[I'm doing] nothing.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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vúra purafâat neekyâatihara.
[I'm doing] nothing at all.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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i'aapúnmuti hum?
Do you understand?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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koovúra úm ithítiimtih?
Do you hear everything?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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purafâat vúra ná'aapunmutihara.
I don't know anything.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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vúra uum puná'aapunmutihara.
I don't know (anything).Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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fâat ixútih?
What are you thinking?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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fâat ichuuphítih?
What did you say?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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hûut ipítih?
What did you say?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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ipikrôokti hum?
Did you remember?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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ipikrôokti húm fâat peepítih?
Did you learn (remember) what you said?Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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atafâat ixúti
" kíri ni'am."
Maybe you think you want to eat something.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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navíshtaanti áayas.
I like grapes.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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fâat kumá'ii peexráratih?
naa ník ôok páy níkrii."
"What are you crying for? I'm here with you."Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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koovúra ni'áapunma fâat nikyâatih.
I learned everything, I can make anything.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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uknîi kaan kun'áraarahiti itráhyar mu'túnviiv avansamúrax.
Uknii. They lived there. His ten children were just boys.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas muyiimúsich káru ník u'áraarahiti,
áxak yeeripáxvuhsa kaan kun'iin.
And (others) lived close by. Two girls lived there.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
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 -
úum papihnîichich vúra kich itíhaan iinâak úkrii,
áah ukyâatih.
Their old man always sat inside, tending the fire.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
káru umnîishti pakun'áveesh pakunpavyíihukahaak.
Also he was doing the cooking so they should find their meal ready when they came home.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"pûuhara,
ávansa kípa ûum vúup ucháfichtih."
But he answered, "No indeed! Men always chew the neck!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upakúriihva "súnunuk á-ni-nak ki-yánee náa puváfish navishtantihara,
And he started singing, "In secret...Tra-la-la...I don't like liver.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
vúup kich kípa nicháfichtih."
The neck is what I want to chew!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
káruma vúra nik pufuhíishtihap.
But they didn't believe a word of it.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
púxay vúra chuuphítihara.
But he never answered anything.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas kunpíip,
"nuu nusêeyti pávaa kookapákurih."
Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"minik naa ni'ítaptih."
And he said, "I know it!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
ník upíti papihnîich,
And the old man was saying,Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
púxay fuhíshtihap.
But they didn't mind him.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
aayâach kun'ixviphûunishti íp pa'úthvoonhitihat va'íhuk,
tá kun'ithyúruvarak,
pamútraax kich kun'áaphutih.
That was because they were mad at him because he had wanted to dance. They they dragged him down, they were just carrying him (by) the arms".Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
pahûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak vaa vúra kóo itíhan kuméekxaram nanitúnviiv vaa pay'ôok kun'írunaatiheesh.
As long as people live, every night my children will pass right here.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
yaas'ára îin kinmáahtiheesh."
And the people who live will see them."Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
kári xás máruk ikúkak nivátaroovutih.
I was in the hills, walking along on a log.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
chí 'axmay u'árihrishuk nixúti
" vinusuná'anamahich."
Suddenly something ran out. At first I thought it was a little bear cub.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
u'ahváraahitih.
The log was hollow.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
yánava váa kaan su pa'úxruunhitih.
And the growling came from inside.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
xas pasáruk nipitfákutih víri kúna su upárihkaa pihneefích'anamahich.
I looked back just in time to see a coyote pup running back into the log.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
yánava pananipihneefích'anamahich tóo psírheen íp pani'íithvutihat.
And found the little pup I'd been packing had got away already.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
súva su’ kuníxruunhitih.
I could hear them growling.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
kári xas kárivarih sú' kuníxruunhitih.
The rest were growling inside.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
yánava sú' kári kunimtaránamhitih.
And I could see more pups inside.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
chavúra axaksúpaa kaan sú' kun'áraarahitih.
And kept them there two days.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
ithâan mit masúruk saamváruk níshxaaytihat.
Once I went up the creek, fishing with hook and line.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
yanava uspúkahiti kaan.
I found there was gold there.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
kuyrakinívkihámmahich kuníthvoohiti.
They were worth eight dollars apiece.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
viriva payváaheem vura kári kaan nipiktamkurihvankôoti.
Even now I go back and pan at that place.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
kári vura nixúti kúkuum vura ikhich nimáhis táay hôoyvurava vaa kâan.
I still think maybe I'll make a find again somewhere right there.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
saamvároo ithyárukirukam súva as úxaakti itharípriik vúra hôoyvarihva.
On the other side of the creek I could hear the noise of rocks somewhere in a fir thicket.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
púxay vúraxay naxútihara káan ukyíimeesh.
I didn't think it (my shot) reached him there.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
mâa vúrava sâam súva vúrava papírish úxaaktih.
A little downhill I heard a noise in the brush.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
unuhyâachhiruva kúma u'árihishrih pananí'iithva víri natakníihshurootih.
My pack was becoming too round, so it kept rolling off me.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
tá nithyúrunih,
tá puna'íithvutihara.
I dragged it, I didn't try to pack it anymore.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
uknîi ataháreesh vúra uyíkihiti uum vúra mahnûuvanach.
uknîi. Chipmunk was sick all the time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
sunyíthih kun'íshavsiprimtih.
They always paid him with chestnuts.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
sunyíthih kun'íshavsiprimti sunyithih'ásar.
They paid him with chestnuts, a panful of chestnuts.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás xanpuchíniishveenach uum vúra umasmáahvutih.
Now that fellow Hummingbird was dancing the medicine dance.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
" hárivari vavéeniichva,"
umásmaahvutih.
"Some time ago it was done by trickery," as he was dancing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás upíip,
" náa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih!"
Then he said, "My mouth is small!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
xás xanpuchíniishveenach upíip,
" kachakâach mu'ápuroon úpsiinvutih!"
Then Hummingbird said, "Bluejay does not know his medicine!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
hínupa yee u'apunkôoti pamahnûuvanach.
That one kept poisoning Chipmunk.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
kári xás hinupáy uvíshtaanti sunyithih'ásar.
Because he liked chestnut mush.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii poo'apunkôotih.
Therefore he poisoned him.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
hûutvaheesh uum pee'íithvutihaak,
peecapturehaak?
How will you pack him, after you capture him?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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araráhi ípum panuchúuphitiheesh.
We're supposed to be talking Indian.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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nixuti áta ishánaavish.
I thought you might bring some [sticks] up.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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I have to be like ...
fâat kumakêemish,
poo'iithvútihanik fâatva...
I'll be like ... some kind of animal to pack them, something ...Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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akâay?
akâay poo'iithvútihanik?
Who? Who was packing it?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xáyfaat uum vaa ipíti
" you don't know,"
hôoy if ipíti puná'aapunmutihara.
Don't say, [in English] "I don't know.” Say [in Karuk] "I don't know."Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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puná'aapunmutihara
I don't know.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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chími...
talk about your weaving,
fâatva peevíikti payêem.
Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra payêem pufâat náviiktihara.
I'm not weaving anything right now.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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no?
páy kích uum kunipíti,
uvíiktih.
People always say you're weaving.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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fâat kích ivíiktih?
[To Madeline:] What are you weaving?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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íp vúra nik nixútihat,
kíri nivik ítam,
pâanpay tá na'ûuriha.
I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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nixúti,
hárivarihva sárip nisháankurihat íshahak.
[The other day] I thought I'd put some sticks in water.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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xás nixúti,
vaa páy kip Violet ukupíti,
the whole thing,
vaa too sáankuri,
púxay vúra fikríiptihara.
And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out."Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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puxáy vúra vaa nakupéeshara paViolet ukupiti.
I can't do it like Violet does.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra vaa pay...
I just pull out pahûutva nixúti pay koo.
I just pull out however I think is right.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa káan xáat uum fikriiptih.
[I put them] there hoping they will be sorted.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri man punámaahtihara.
But I can't see.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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manâa peefíkriiptihaak,
vaa kári i'afishêenatiheesh
When you're sorting it, then you can feel it.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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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
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pakéevniikas kunfíkriiptih,
xás pukunmaahtih.
The old women sorted, they couldn't see.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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káru uumkun puikyâatih?
Why didn't they do it themselves?Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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man kunyáavhiti,
táay pamukuníkyav.
They were in a hurry, they had a lot to do.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri man ayu'âach uum uyupsírihiti.
Well of course, because she's blind.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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uum vaa káan kích úkriiva,
ufíkriipti.
She just sits there, she sorts them.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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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
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My mother used to tell me, pafâat ixuti kíri nivik,
ipthíithi,
otherwise you never will.
My mother used to tell me, whatever you want to weave, finish it, otherwise you never will.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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mâa yáxa vaa puxay íim pu'ipthíithtihara,
vaa vúra tipáchish.
You see, you don't finish it, you just throw it away.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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koovúra pananívik vaa ukupítih.
It's that way with all my weaving.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri vaa man ...
vaa péehruuvtih.
Of course, because you use it like that.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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ooh,
chí pay kanípthiithtih.
“Oh, I'm going to finish it.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa kôok panivíikti,
arareemváram
That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri manâa vaa yav,
pavaa ivíiktihaak.
Well, it's good that you weave that.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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kóovura nixúti ni'ítapeesh.
I'm just gonna learn.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri manâa hôoy if áta ishêeyti,
kumá'ii peevíikti.
Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naníxvaah níhruuvti,
níxus vaa páy ninísheesh.
I'm using my head, I think, “I'll do like this.”Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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manâa puxutihara xáy kêechas nihruv.
Well, you shouldn't try to use big ones.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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níxuti kíri kúnish sákriiv,
I want to make it kinda solid.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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káru uum yíth kunkupeekyâahitih.
They make a different kind for that.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa pootákiramtih.
That's what she soaked dough in.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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Well, manâa pu'ikyâatihara.
Well, you don't make it [acorn soup].Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri manâa puná'aapunmutihara xás vúra xás kôok patákiram vúra kunikyâati.
I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basketSource: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa peemváram kích vaa uum kích nixúti,
vaa tákiram.
All I know about plates is for soaking acorn doughSource: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri hûut kunkupa'ávahitih?
So how can they eat it? [without a special plate]Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri vaa vúra kich pa'imváram kun'ítaptih.
They only learned about the Indian plate.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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víri man yáxa naa puná'aapunmutihara.
Well, look, I don't know how.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra puná'aapunmutihara.
I don't know.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa payíth kôok kuníhruuvtihanik patákiram.
They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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nipíti if I did that the sand would
just come all over.
I'm saying if I did that the sand would just come all overSource: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa káan aas uvúuntih.
There was a spring flowing there.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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vaa káan ithasúpaah kun'íineesh,
kuntákinti,
yuxnaam.
They stayed there all day, they soaked acorn dough in the fine sand.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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manâa uum pukoovúra kin'ítaptihara,
pukoovúra kin'áapunmutihara pakúupha.
We didn't learn everything, we don't know all the customs.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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naa vúra punathitíveeshara,
xâat xára kaan kú'uuhyanati,
naa vúra vaa punatákirara fâat vúra pakuchuphúruthunatih.
I won't be able to hear, even if you talk a long time, I won't be able to leach acorn or whatever you're talking about.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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nutákintih.
We're soaking acorn dough.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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yúxnaam vaa káan...
púva,
néehruuvtihara payúxnaam.
Never there in the fine sand, I didn't use the fine sand.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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káru pa'araráhi nu'úuhyanati,
vaa ipiip
" pot".
We're [supposed to be] talking Indian language, and then you say "pot."Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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taay i'ítaptih iim.
You know a lot.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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tá ni'itxâarihvutih mah'íitnihach.
I woke up in the early morning.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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tá ni'itxâarihvutih.
I woke up.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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áhup tá nikyâatih.
I gathered wood.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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áhup ikyâatih hum?
Did you gather wood?Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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áah tá nikyâatih.
I made a fire.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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vaa tá nikyâatih pá'aah.
So I made the fire.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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vaa yáv nipmahóonkoonati vúra pamáh'iit.
I feel good in the morning.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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kâarim nipmahóonkoonati patá níkviit-hitih itíhaan.
I feel bad when I am always sleeping.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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taay vúra hôotah panúkviitihat ipít ikxáram.
It was really late when we went to bed last night.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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kári xás vúra taay panu'íishtih káru áamtih.
We ate and drank a lot.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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íkiich vúra ipíshriivpeesh patáay i'áamtih.
Maybe you'll get fat if you eat too much.Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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naníaunt Ramona ithâan néemuustih naníaunt Ramona kári xás upítih "
hã'ii tipíshriivpa."
My Aunt Ramona once looked at me and she said "Yikes, you've gotten fat!"Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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" kíri kanaxusêer puthitíimtihara."
"I wish they would think about me that I can not understand."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
víri uum vúra u'íhivrik yuhih mûuk, iiv umahavriktih.
He answered in Yurok, he was groaning.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
ata háriva kun'áraarahitihanik.
They were living (there).Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
ataháriva kun'áraarahitihanik.
They were living (there).Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás uumkun váa vúra kích kunkupítihanik pakunpakurîihvanaatihanik,
pa'ávansas,
pakunpakurîihvanaatihanik,
ikriripan'ikmaháchraam.
All they did was sing songs, the men, they used to sing in Amekyaram sweathouse.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás vúra uumkun hitíhaan pakaan kunivyíihmutihanik peekxaréeyav,
váa kumá'ii pakun'úuhyanatihanik,
hûut áta pakunkupítiheesh,
yaas'ára.
The First People went in there all the time, since they were talking over what humans were going to do.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
chavúra pâanpay pirishkâarim káan uthivkêevanik,
pakun'úuhyanatihirak,
xás vúra uum kunvîiha pakaan u'uum.
Then later on Grizzly Bear went in there with them, where they were talking (it) over, and they did not like it when he arrived.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
mâaka kích uvôonipaati ma'tîimich.
He (Grizzly Bear) only moved back against the wall in the back part of the sweathouse.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás káan xás kunchúuphinaa,
váa káan âapun kunivyíhishrihanik pakunchúuphinaatihanik.
And there they talked, and there they all sat down on the ground talking. They said: "What did we leave him there for in the sweathouse?"Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
mâaka kích uvafnúuchripaati pirishkâarim.
Grizzly Bear only shrugged back.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
uum vúra kích a' úkrii ma'tîimich pirishkâarim,
púxay vúra kêenatihara.
Grizzly Bear alone was sitting up in the back part of the sweathouse, he never moved.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
váa vúra kunímuusti pirishkâarim.
They kept looking at Grizzly Bear.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
chavúra tá xánahishich chími axmáy u'áasish patáprihak,
vúra tóo mchax tá pukunish kêenatihara.
Then after a while all at once he lay down on the pavement, he was hot, it was like he couldn't move.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
úma vúra vaa kunpakúriihvanaati imfirayâak.
Just the same they kept on singing in the heat.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
vúra pukúnish xutihap hûut,
tá kun'áapunma tóo mkuhiruv.
They paid no attention to him, they knew that he was getting sweltered.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
tá pu'imtaranáamhitihara pamutiiv poopvôonsip.
His ears were invisible when he got up again.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
kári xás úpaanik poopítithunanik:
" xáyfaat ík vúra váa náa nithítiimti pamikunpákurih;
náa púvaa nanívaahara pamikunpákurih."
Then he said looking back: "I must never hear your song any more; your song will not do for me."Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
pirishkâarim váa úpaanik:
" xáyfaat ík vúra váa náa nithítiimti pamikunpákurih."
Grizzly Bear said it: "I must never hear your song any more.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
uum vúra kunxúseentihanik kíri hûuk u'uum,
vúra kunvîihanik.
They had been wishing for him to go off, for they disliked him.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
víri payváheem vúra kárivarih uvîihiti ikriripanpákurih.
He still dislikes those songs now.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
pa'áraar tupakurîihvahaak ikriripanpákurih márukninay váa xás vúra ukvíiptih,
payváheem váa ukupítih.
Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
kárivarih vúra váa u'áayti papákurih.
He still fears those songs.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
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 -
xás úppeeranik,
achvúun îin kuníppeeranik: "
xáy faat ík vúra ôok ipáfyuk,
iim vúra pu'ôok vúrayvutiheeshara."
And Hookbill told him: "You must never come around here again, you are not going to come around here."Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
xás achvúun uppiip: "
vaa vúra ôok kunpakkúriihvutiheesh nanipákkuri xáat naa pu'ôokhara."
Then Hookbill said: "They will be singing my song, no matter if I am not here."Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
uum vúra vaa kári kyáan kunpakúriihvuti pamupákkuri achvuun.
They are still singing Hookbill's song there [in the Amekyaram sweathouse].Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text -
ataháriva kun'áraarahitihanik.
They were living (there).Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xás úum vúra hitíhaan poopítih:
"kahyúras nivâarameesh,
íshpuk nipachnútareesh."
Then he (Coyote) said all the time: "I am going to go to the Klamath Lakes to suck out dentalia."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xás vúra voo'áhootih.
He was walking along.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
chavúra vaa káan u'úum paxathímtup kunikyâatihirak,
pakunikyâatihirak paxathímtup.
Then he reached the place where they fix cooked grasshoppers, where they fix roasted grasshoppers.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
chavúra tá xánahishich tíik mûuk vúra tumutváraatih.
Then a little while after he was just feeding it into his mouth by the handful.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
a' veehyarihara vúra poo'áamtih.
He was even standing up when he was eating it.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
káruma íp íshpuk upachnútantihat.
He was going to suck dentalia, he was on the way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
káruma vookúpiti poo'áhootih.
He was walking, that was what he was doing.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
tíik mûuk vúra poomutváraatih.
He was eating it a handful at a time.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xás púraan tá kun'êe pa'áhup,
kuníkshaahtih:
"if yâamachich pa'áhup!"
They handed the wood to each other, they were laughing: "What nice wood!"Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
yánava káan áxak avansáxiichas kun'íipithvutih,
yúras'astiip.
Behold two boys were walking around, by the shore.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
poo'oonváthunati pamusavásiivsha.
Coyote took his nephews through mourning around all the time.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
ataháriva kunáraarahitihanik.
They were living (there).Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
xas uum vúra váa kich ukupítihanik póothtiitihanik.
And all that he used to do was to gamble.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
táay nik tá kunchífich vúra pu'ixraratihara,
váa xás u'ívur pamúkiit muyáfus.
They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
víri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti,
pakunpáxeepanik,
pamúkiit muyáfus.
He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
koovúra váa kári kuníkshuuphanik kumákuusrah,
pakári kun'ípaktiheesh kumákuusrah.
And all [the Salmon] fixed the month, the month they will come back.Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
ishyâat úpaanik:
" yaas'ára vúra u'aapúnmutiheesh yakun pa'îin yíth ukupeexákahitiheesh,
patá nipikrêehaak nani'îin."
Salmon said: “Human will know the water will sound different in the falls when I am in there, in my falls.Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
náa ni'ípaktiheesh xátikrupma,
úthvuuyti itrôopahaan pakúusrah.
I will always come back in the spring, the month is called the fifth month (March).Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
ikrívkihaan xásik arara îin ná'aamtiheesh.
In the sixth month (April), Human will eat me.Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
kári xas sápxiit úpaanik "payáv îin ná'aamtiheesh."
Then Steelhead said: “A good person will eat me.”Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
xás pimaníh'aama úpaanik "naa vúra pishîich yaas'ára îin ná'aamtiheesh."
Then Summer Salmon said: “Human will eat me the first thing (when I get there).”Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
káru uum achvúun úpaanik "naa vúra pishîich yaas'ára îin ná'aamtiheesh,
pani'îipmahaak."
And Hookbill said: “Human will eat me the first thing, when I get there.”Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
káru akraah uum úpaanik "naa káru pishîich ni'ípaktiheesh xátikrupma."
And the Eel said: “I will also get there first in the spring.”Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text -
ataháriva kun'áraarahitihanik.
They were living [there].Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
pu'áapúnmutihara hôoy vaa poovȃaramootih.
She did not know where he kept going all the time.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
xas uum vúra hitíhaan kumasúpaa poopȋiriihiti pamu'ávan paxuun.
She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
" hínupa uum u'iimníhvutih."
[Then the woman said] “He was in love [was staying away with a girl].”Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
uum vúra vookupitti',
patóo kxáramha kári tóo pchanchákkar,
káru patusúpaaha kári kyúkkuum tu'êetchúrar,
patusúpaaha',
tuchánchaaksurar patusúpaaha'.
He [Coyote] was doing that way, was closing evenings the living-house roof hole and mornings opened it up, when morning came, opened it when morning came.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text -
uum vúra vaa hitíhaan ukupítti'.
That was his job.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text -
ata hári vaa kun'áraarahitihanik.
They were living there.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
yánava ukúhitih.
Behold she [that person, Bluejay] was sick.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
ukúhitih.
She was sick.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
kári xás upiip: "
uum vúra vaa páy arara'îin kunxúseentih kíri âapun úyruuhriv.
Then she said: "Someone is causing her sickness.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
xás kúkuum vúra voopiip: "
uum vúra arara'îin kunxúseentih."
Then she said: "Somebody is making it."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
pahûut uthvúytiihva peehêeraha
The Name of TobaccoSource: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text -
púffaat vúra îin áamtihap.
Nothing eats them.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
kôokaninay vúr u'íiftih.
They grow all over.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
payêem vúra vaa káan taay u'íifti,
pakáan píins kun'úhthaamhitihirak.
They grow more now where beans are planted.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
vaa vúra púrith umússahiti,
kúna vúra axvíththirar umússahiti pachishihpúrith,
uxraháthkaay,
pappírish káru vúra axvíththirarkunish.
They look like huckleberries, but the dog huckleberries are dirty looking, they are sour, the leaves also are dirty looking.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
chishíih áta ník uum vúr u'áamti,
íkkiich áta,
vóothvuuyti chishihpúrith.
I guess maybe dogs eat them, they are called dog huckleberries.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text -
astíip vúr u'íifti yúxnaam.
It grows by the river in the sand.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text -
vúra pu'uhthaamhítihap.
They do not sow it.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text -
áraar uum vúra pu'ihêeratihara pasahihêeraha.
The Indians never smoke it, that river tobacco.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text -
kúna vúra patapasihêeraha uum kúnish axváhahar,
tíikyan ár uxváhahiti patu'áffishahaak patapasihêeraha.
But the real tobacco is pithy, it makes a person's hands sticky when one touches it, the real tobacco does.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text -
peheeraha'íppa pakóo uthvúyttiihva pamushvitáva
"Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
yáan vúr u'íkkyusunutihach peheerahappírish.
The tobacco is just starting to come up.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
á'yaach vúr uvêehrímva poo'íifti peehêeraha.
The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
á'yaach vúra uvêehrimva poo'íifti peheeraha'íppa.
The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
kôomahich vúra pooveehpîithvuti pamúptiik.
Its branches just spread a little.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
peheeraháaptiik,
pa'uh'íppi sákriivsha,
puyâamahukich kupeeshpáttahitihara.
The tobacco-branches, the tobacco-stems are tough; they do not break easily.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
káakum vúra a'vári poo'íifti,
káru káakum vúra âapunich.
Some [tobacco plants] grow low, some high.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
vaa vúra a'varittâapas u'íifti pa'avansa'ávahkamvari tu'íffahaak.
The highest that they grow is higher than man.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
vaa vúr upifyîimmuti pa'avansa'ávahkamvari tu'íffahaak.
The highest it ever grows is higher than man.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
vaa uum vúra hitíhaan araréethvaayvari vaa kóo vâaramas-hitih.
But most of the time they come up to a person's chest.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text -
pahûut u'iftakantákkanti,
úmxaathti,
u'ákkati,
umússahitih
"How [tobacco] Feels, Smells, Tastes, and Looks"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut u'iftakantákkantih
"How [tobacco] Feels"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
xúus kúnish ár u'iftakankôotti patu'áffishahaak.
Tobacco is smooth and sticky when one feels it.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut úmxaathtih
"How [tobacco] Smells"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut u'ákkatih
"How [tobacco] Tastes"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
peehêeraha apmáan ukrixyúpxupti ára,
úux,
xára vúr apmáan u'ákkatih.
Tobacco burns a person's mouth, it tastes bad.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
hâari tá kunpakátkat payaaf,
pakári kuntákkiritihat,
kári xás tá kunpiip:
" ihêeraha vúra kári kyóo úux payaaf."
Sometimes when they taste of acorn dough, when they are still soaking it, they say: "The acorn dough tastes as bad as smoking tobacco yet."Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
pahûut umúsahitih
"How [tobacco] Looks"Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
payáan vúr u'íiftihaak puxxích thúkkinkunish,
peheeraha'íppa,
pachím uimtúppeeshahaak,
vaa kári taváttavkunish.
When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text -
peehêeraha u'íiftihirak
place where tobacco growsSource: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
úptiikhitih.
It has branches, limbs.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
usúruvarahitih.
It is hollow.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
usuruváraahitih.
They (tpl.) are hollow.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
umáanhitih.
It has skin. ; It has bark.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
imyaat kúnish upiyáatunvaramoohitih.
It is like fur all compressed together.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
afiv'ávahkam a'vánihich vaa poopírishhiti pamu'iheerahásaan,
áfiv uum vúra piríshiipux.
Somewhat up the stem the leaves commence; the base is without leaves.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
peheerahásaan tiníhyaachas,
vaa pakun'ihêeratih.
The tobacco leaves are widish ones; those are what they smoke.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
áankunish sú' usasípiithva,
áachip áankunish u'ishipváraahiti,
koovúra vookupíti pamupírish,
áachip áankunish u'ishipváraahitih.
They have little threads in them, with a filament running down the middle; they are all that way, with a filament running down that way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
peheerahásaan xúus kunish ithváaykamkam,
kôomahich vúra u'áxvuh?ha?hitihach peheerahasanvásihkamkam.
Tobacco leaves are smooth on top, but a little hairy on the underside.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
pamupírish vúra pu'ivrárasurutihara,
sákriivsha pamúpsii,
ípam kunish pamupirish'ápsii,
xákaan u'ifshúrootihirak sákriivsha.
The leaves do not fall off, they are tough leaf-stemmed, thier leaves are like sinew, where the leaves grow off [from the stem] is tough.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
ipansúnukich vaa káan payêepsha,
ikpíhan peehêeraha,
kunish ár u'iftakankôoti,
vaa peheerahayêepsha káanvári.
Toward the top they are good leaves, it is strong tobacco, like it would stick to a person, they are good tobacco leaves that side.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
áfivarih uum pu'ifyayêepshahara peehêeraha,
úmvaayti,
káru vúra pathríha mûuk,
pathríha mûuk káru vúra úmvaayti.
Toward the base the tobacco leaves are not so good, they are wilted, they are wilted with the sunshine and also with the rain, with the rain also they are wilted.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
vaa uum yíthuk kunyéeshriihvuti,
patá kunikyâahaak
They put it apart when they work it.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
vaa kunippítti:
" imxathakkêem,
ikpíhan,
peheeraháaxvaha."
They say: "It stinks, it is strong, the tobacco gum."Source: Phoebe Maddux, Gum (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.i) | read full text -
vaa kári xás kunxúti tóo mtup peehêeraha,
patá,
kunma tóo xváhaha."
Then they know the tobacco is ripe, when they see it is gummy.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Gum (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.i) | read full text -
pahûut ukupeethríhahaahiti peethríha
Phases of FloweringSource: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text -
yáan vúr u'úruhitih.
It is starting in to have buds on it.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text -
káru uthríhahitih.
It is still blooming.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text -
vúra ník mít vaa kun'aapúnmutihat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
They Knew That Seeds Will GrowSource: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
nuu vúra pakuma'áraaras vúra pufâat úhish ipsháruktihaphanik,
xáat máruk kunifyúkutihanik.
Our kind of people never used to pack seed home, I do not care if they had been going around upslope.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
kúna vúra vaa kun'aapúnmutihanik pa'áraar,
hôoy vúrava pa'úhish pookyívishrihaak,
vaa vúra íkiich u'ífeesh,
kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra vaa.
But the people knew, that if a seed drops any place, it will maybe grow up; they knew that way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
kun'aapúnmutihanik vúra ník pa'úhish ník vúra kunsánpiithvutihanik pakookâachas.
They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
fâat vaa vúra vaa pávaa kupítihan,
man'áta axraas.
It is something that is doing that, maybe a gopher.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
vúra fâatva vaa vúra pávaa kupítihan,
sú' ithivthaneensúruk usanpîithvutih.
Something is doing that, is packing it around down under the ground.Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
kúna vúra mít puhári úhish ipshâanmutihaphat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
But They Never Packed Seeds HomeSource: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish utháamhítihaphanik,
vúra iheeraha'úhish vúra kích kuniyâatihanik.
And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish iinâak táayhitihanik,
vúra ihêeraha kích,
iheeraha'úhish vúra kich.
And they never had any kind of seeds stored in the houses, only the tobacco, the tobacco seeds.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
ithríhar káru vúra pu'ínâak táayhítihanik.
And they had no flowers in the houses either.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik,
kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk,
aksanváhich,
kár axpaheekníkinach,
káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich,
xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin.
Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
peethríhar káru kunpathraamvútiihva payeeripáxvuuhsa,
ithasúpaa kunpathraamvútiihva,
káru káakum uumkun kuntávtiihva yúpin.
Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
pu'impúuchtihara ithasúpaah.
It did not get wilted all day.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
pahûut pakunkupítihanik xáas vúra kúnish ikxáyxaytihaphanik
How they would say that [the ground] was sort of cultivatedSource: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
vaa vúra kich pumít kupítihaphat,
pumít ikxáyxaytihaphat.
The only thing they did not do was to work on the ground.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
kúna vaa vúra ník kun'áapunmutihanik,
pamukunvôoh muuk vaa káan taay u'íifti,
pakáan hitíhaan kun'ûupvutihaak,
patá yíth,
vaa káan yáanchiip taay u'íifti,
yíth pakáan kun'uupvutihaak.
But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
vaa kunipíti pakun'ûupvutihaak patayîith,
vaa yâanchiip kúkuum taay u'íiftih.
They claim that by digging Indian potatoes, more grow up the next year again.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
taay tûupichas u'íifti sú',
vaa mupîimachich patayîith.
There are tiny ones growing under the ground, close to the Indian potatoes.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
vaa vúra ník kun'áapunmutihanik káru,
vaa uum yáv papírish ávahkam kunithyúruthunatihaak patá kunpúhthaampimarahaak.
They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
vaa vúra ník káru kunáapunmutihanik,
vaa uum yáv papírish kunvítriptihaak.
And they also knew that it was good to pull out weeds.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
áfeer tá kunvítrip,
vaa uum pukúkuum píiftihara,
pávaa kun'îinishtihaak,
payúux uxéetchichhitih.
Root and all they pull them out, so they will not grow up again, and by doing this the ground is made softer.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text -
upívriihtih.
They (inanimate) fall down.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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xuntápan upívriihtih.
The acorns fall down.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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xuntápan nikítnaaktih.
I am cracking acorns.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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akâay paxuntápan ukítnaaktih?
Who is cracking acorns?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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akâay ikpúr utákirtih?
Who is leaching acorn meal?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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nitharámpuuktih.
I'm cooking acorn soup.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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upáthriihtih.
It's raining.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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néemuustih.
Look at me.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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úkxiiptih.
It is flying.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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akâay pa'áama u'áamtih?
Who's eating the salmon?Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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vírusur pa'áama u'áamtih.
The bear's eating the salmon.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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nímuustih.
I am looking at it.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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nímuustih.
I am looking at it.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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nichuuphítih.
I am talking.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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nichuuphítih.
I am talking.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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uchuuphítih.
He is talking.Source: Vina Smith, Lucille Albers, Sentences with verb paradigms (LA-VS-01) | read full text
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koovúra paxvâah pay'ôok uum umnîishtiheesh.
She is going to cook all the heads.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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ipít kúnish niyíkihatih.
Yesterday I was sick.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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pay'ôok xákaan nuchúuphitih.
We are talking right here.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about body parts, etc. (SD-01) | read full text
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pay'ôok araráhi nichuuphítih.
I am talking the Indian language right here.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about speaking Karuk (SD-02) | read full text
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páy uum pa'áraar úmniishti pachikin'úruh.
The man is cooking an egg.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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pay'ôok pa'asiktávaan ukyâati paxuun.
Here the woman is cooking the acorn soup.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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pay'ôok uum pa'áraar ukfúyfuuytih.
Here the person is whistling.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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fâat kuma'áv poo'áamtih?
What kind of food is he eating?Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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putíruh u'áamtih.
He is eating potatoes.Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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papúsihich umáhtih iim.
The cat sees you.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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taay úm papúsihich úm ithiinátih um?
Do you have lots of cats?Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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Sally uum taay papúsihich uthiinátih.
Sally has lots of cats.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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naa púsihich nithiinátih.
I have a cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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naa áxak papúsihich nithiinátih.
I have two cats.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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naa áxak púsihich nithiinátih.
I have two cats.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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naa áxak papúsihich nithiinátih.
I have two cats.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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nithítiimtih papúsihich uum.
I hear the catSource: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich nithítiimti upakurîihvutih.
I hear the cat purring.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich upakurîihvutih.
The cat is purring.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nithítiv papúsihich upakurîihvutih.
I hear the cat purring.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nithítiv papúsihich upakurîihvutih.
I hear the cat purring.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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nímuustih uum papúsihich u'áamtih.
I am looking at the cat eating.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich u'áamtih.
The cat is eating.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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papúsihich u'áamtih.
The cat is eating.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nithítiv payupsítanach uxráratih.
I hear the baby crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá nithítiv papúsihich îikam uvathíivtih.
I hear the cats fighting outside.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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ararachúupha nuu payêem nuchúuphitih.
We are talking our Indian language now.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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tá kúnish nithítiv pachishíi poohyíivtih.
I heard the dog barking.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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yánava pachishíih poohyíivtih!
The dogs are barking!Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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uhyíivtih.
It is barking.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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yupthúkirar uxráratih.
A mountain lion is crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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vírusur uum taay pooxrúunhatih.
The bear is growling a lot.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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nithyúrutih pananíthyur.
I am driving my car.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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nithyúritih peethyur.
I am driving the car.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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kâam uum Chester pá'ukriivtih.
Chester lives up the river a little ways.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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káruk tá nivâaram káruk va'áraas tá nímuustiheesh.
I'm going upriver and I'll see someone (an Indian person) upriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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káruk va'áraar nímuustiheesh.
I am going to see a person who lives upriver.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih uum kúnish nimáhat papúufich pay'ôok úkriivtih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer lives.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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kúnish úkviit-hitih pay'ôok.
He is making his bed right here.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih pay'ôok nimahat papúufich úkviit-hitih.
When I was walking, I saw where the deer was sleepingSource: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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pani'áhootih papúufich uum pamu'asímnaam tá nimah.
When I was walking, I saw the deer's bed.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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víshtaantih.
(You) like it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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páy úm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like this?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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hûut úthvuuytih?
What is her name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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hûut úthvuuyti pamihrôoha?
What is your wife's name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about asking name, adjectives (VS-02) | read full text
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fâat i'áamti payêem?
What are you eating now?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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fâat pee'áamtih?
What are you eating?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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naa nímuusti váa.
I am looking at it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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fâat ímuustih?
What are you looking at?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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fâat ímuusti íim?
What are you looking at?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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vaa húm péemuustih?
Are you looking at it?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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váa húm ímuustih?
Are you looking at it?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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vaa húm péemuusti íim?
Are you looking at it?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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papúsihich ímuusti hum?
Are you looking at the cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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papúsihich ímuusti íim.
You are looking at the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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vaa pananipúsihich utapkûuputih.
My cat likes it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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tá neekvúrishrih panipakúriihvutih.
I am tired of singing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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tá neekvúrishrih puxích panipakúriihvutih.
I am really tired of singing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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puxích íp neekvúrishrihat máh’iit payêem uum yáv nipmahóonkoonatih.
I was tired this morning, but now I am feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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payêem uum yáv nipmahóonkoonatih.
Now I am feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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púyav nipmahoonkoonatihara.
There is something wrong with me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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púyav panéepmahoonkoonatihara.
I am not feeling well.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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naa vúra punaxúrihitihara.
I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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máh’iit íp naxúrihitihat payêem uum punaxúrihitihara.
I was hungry this morning, but now I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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máh’iit naxúrihitihat.
I was hungry this morning.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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máh’iit íp naxúrihitihat.
I was hungry this morning.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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payêem uum punaxúrihitihara.
Now I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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kâarim nipmahóonkoonatih.
I am sad.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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kâarim nipmahóonkoonatih naa.
I am sad.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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puyáv nipmahóonkoonatih papúsihich îikam tuvâaram.
I am sad because the cat has gone outside.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa vúra nayíkihitih.
I am sick.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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iim húm iyíkihitih?
Are you sick?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa nayíkihitih.
I am sick.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa ni'aapúnmutih.
I understand.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa vúra puna'aapúnmutihara.
I do not know.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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iim punupítaptihara.
I don't know you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa punéexratihara.
I am not thirsty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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pûuhara naa punéefchaktihara.
No, I am not stuck.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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naa pakáruk úuhyan nichuuphítih.
I am speaking the Karuk language.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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naa pakáruk úuhyan ni'ítaptih.
I know how to speak the Karuk language.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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fâatva tá nimáahti îikam.
I saw something outside.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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ipít pamu'ásravara uhrúuvtih.
Yesterday he used his brain.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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ní'aayti pamu'ápsuun.
I am scared of his snake.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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ní'aaytih.
I am afraid of it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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pananipúsihich ukviit-hítih.
My cat is sleeping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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uum ukviit-hítih.
He is sleeping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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naa pananí'apxaan uum níthxuunatih.
I am wearing my hat on my head.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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níthxuunatih.
It is on my head.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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pa'ávansa îin néemusti Orleans aramsîiprintih.
The man who came from Orleans saw me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa Orleans aramsîiprinti iim îin néemustih.
The man who came from Orleans saw me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa paOrleans aramsîiprinti ukyívishrih.
The man who lives in Orleans fell.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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vaa pa'ávansa nipítaptih.
I know that man.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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vaa nipítapti pa'ávansa panámniik aramsîiprintih.
I know the man who lives in Orleans.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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vaa íp nichuphûunishti pa'ávansa.
I talked to that man.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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pa'ávansa îin nipítaptih.
The man knows me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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naa puneexráratihara.
I am not crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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payupsítanich puxráratih.
The baby is not crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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xáyfaat ixráratih.
Don't cry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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naa níkshaatih.
I am laughing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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chúupha ti'ítapti húm pá'ararahih?
Do you know the Indian language?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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panaa neepshéekti pay pûuvish.
It was the bag that made me heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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naa neepshéektih.
I am getting heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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naa káru neepshéektih.
I am also getting heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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iim punuthítiimtihara.
I do not hear you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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iim puneemshákaantihara.
I do not smell you.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra puna'áytihara.
I am not afraid.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra ni'áyti payêem.
I am afraid right now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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nihêeratih.
I am smoking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa nihêeratih.
I smoke.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra itíhaan panihêeratih.
I always smoke.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra itíhaan nihêeratih.
I am always smoking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa puneehêeratihara.
I do not smoke.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa nihêeratih.
I am smoking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa nikfúyfuuytih.
I am whistling.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa punéekfuuytihara.
I did not whistle.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa nipakurîihvutih.
I sing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa punapákuriihvutihara.
I do not sing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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punamáahtihara.
I do not see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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punámaahtih.
I don't see it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa vúra punapakurîihvutihara.
I never sing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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punapakurîihvutihara.
I don't sing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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pananipúsihich ni'ápimtih.
I am looking for my cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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ni'ápimtih.
I am looking for it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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puna'ápimtihara.
I am not looking for it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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níkshaahtih.
I am laughing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa níkshaahti.
I am laughing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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nipíkshaahtih.
I am laughing at myself.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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naa níkshaahti vaa.
I am laughing at myself.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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pachínim pa'ipíta iinâak uvôonfurukatih.
There was a skunk inside the house yesterday.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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ni'áhootih.
I am walking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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naa pananikrívraam ni'aramsîiprimtih.
I am coming from my house.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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iim hôoy i'aramsîiprimtih?
Where are you coming from?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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vaa íp káan ukyamîichvutih xás tóo kxip.
He was playing there but he flew (away).Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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ímuusti pa'achviiv.
You are looking at the bird.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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vaa yáv paníkpuuhtih.
I am swimming well.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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fâat uum pamúsmus u'áamtih?
What does a cow eat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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pamúsmus uum pírish u'áamtih.
The cow eats grass.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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panákish nithiinátih.
I have a pig.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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chishíih nithiinátih.
I have a dog.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-15) | read full text
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fâat ikyâatih?
What are you making?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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fâat teekyâatih?
What did you make?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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fâat ikupavêenatih?
What are you doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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fâat kuma'ávah peevíshtaantih?
What kind of food do you like to eat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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hûut uum pamípaah ikyâatih?
How did you make your boat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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pa'áama hûut ímniishtih?
How do you cook the salmon?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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papúsihich húm ithiinátih?
Do you have a cat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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hãã papúsihich nithiinátih.
Yes, I have a cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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pûuhara punamáahtihara papúsihich.
No, I do not see the cat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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iim áama ímniishtih.
You cooked salmon.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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áama úm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like salmon?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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hãã áama nivíshtaantih.
Yes, I like salmon.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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hãã naa áama karu nivíshtaantih.
Yes, I also like salmon.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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íshkih ukpúuhtih.
It swims fast.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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íshkih úm pa'ákraa ukpúuhtih?
Does the eel swim fast?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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ivíshtaantih húm pa'ákraah?
Do you like eels?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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arará'ish nivíshtaantih.
I like to drink the indian drink.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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naa yúfish nivíshtaantih.
I like salt.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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papufích'iish úm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like deer meat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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uum papufich'íish uvíshtaantih.
He likes deer meat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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ipít númniishti papufich'íish.
Yesterday we cooked deer meat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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payêem uxraah nu'áamtih.
We are eating berries now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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uxraah nivíshtaantih.
I like berries.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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iim uxraah ivíshtaantih?
Do you like berries?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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patakaakaatunvêechas káan kun'íchunvunaatih.
The little quails are hiding there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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kun'íchunvunaatih,
káan.
They are hiding there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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patakaakaatunvêechas kun'íchunvunaatih.
The little quails are hiding.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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puna'aapúnmutihara.
I don't know.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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vúra nu'ápimtih.
We were looking for them.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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vaa kúnish kunimúsahiti pásaan.
They (the quails) are the same color as the leaves.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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Avansáxiich u'áhooti káru pachíshiih.
The boy is walking, and the dog too.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Káru pachishíih upsáravriiktih, avansáxiich.
And the dog is helping the boy.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Avansáxiich uchuphuníshkooti pachishiih.
The boy is talking to the dog.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Uxútih, " Neexaychákisheesh paxanchíifich."
He (the boy) is thinking, "I'll catch the frog."Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Uxútih, " Neexaychákish paxanchíifich."
He's thinking, "I'll catch the frog."Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Pa'avansáxiich uxútih, " Neexaychákisheesh paxanchíifich."
The boy is thinking, "I'll catch the frog."Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Váa káan kun'áhootiheen.
They were walking there.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás vúra káan tú'uum váa káan u'áharamuraatih.
And then he (the frog) gets there, he follows them there.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Káan pakun'áhootih.
There, where they were walking.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Kári iish upáatvutih pa'axiich.
And the child is taking a bath.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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Xás paxanchíifich îin tá kunímuusti pakunpáatvutih.
And the frog is looking at them while they're taking a bath.Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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naa Orleans ni'aramsîiprivtih.
I am coming from Orleans.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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Orleans ni'aramsîiprivtih.
I am coming from Orleans.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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panámniik ni'aramsîiprivtih.
I am coming from Orleans.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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yáv umúsahiti pa'ishkéesh.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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peeshkêesh vúra yáv umúsahitih.
The river looks good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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fâat iimkun kukupavêenahitih?
What are you guys doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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fâat iimkun kukupavêenatih?
What are you guys doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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iim fâat ikupavêenatih?
What are you doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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purafâat vúra nikupavêenatih.
I am doing nothing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut ipítih?
What are you saying?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut ikupavêenatih?
What are you doing?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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fâat i'aapúnmutih?
What do you know?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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hûut íthvuuytih?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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Vina níthvuuytih.
Vina is my name.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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púsihich íthvuuyti hum?
Are you named Púsihich?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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fâat póomniishtih?
What does he cook?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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i'aapúnmuti húm vúra ník?
Do you know?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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naa ni'aapúnmutih.
I understand.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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ni'aapúnmuti vúra.
I understand.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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puna'aapúnmutihara.
I don't know.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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hûut iim íthvuuytih?
What's your name?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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púun nivíshtaantih.
I like cherries.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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punaxúrihitihara.
I am not hungry.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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xáyfaat ichuuphítih!
Don't talk, you guys!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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xáyfaat kuchuuphínaatih!
Don't talk!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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xáyfaat táay ík papáy i'îinatih!
Stop it!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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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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panishxáaytih tá nipikyâar.
I finished fishing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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xás uxuti kunish yíim nîinamich papúufich, xás póo'uum xás vúra uum pufíchkaam.
And he thought the deer was small, but when he got there, it was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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I think they have to clean it right away, so the blood doesn't settle, you know, in one place or something, I don't know why they have to do that, that's one thing I puna'áapunmutihara.
I think they have to clean it right away, so the blood doesn't settle, you know, in one place or something, I don't know why they have to do that, that's one thing I don't know.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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uxúti nîinamich papúufich káru uum vúra yíiv sáruk xás.
He thought the deer was small because it was way down the hill.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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váa vúra uum yíiv xas vaa vúra uxúti íkiich punakúniihkeeshara xás vúra vaa ukúniihka.
And it was so far away, he thought, maybe I won't get it, but he did shoot it.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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váa vúra punapipshinvárihvutihara, váa vúra ni'áapunmuti payêem.
I'll never forget that, I know it today.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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vaa vúra vaa itíhaan vúra vaa u'ákunvuti káru.
He was always doing that, he was always hunting.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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vaa, xas vúra vaa uum vúra uum chéemyaach, káru uum vúra vaa pu'aapúnmutihara fâat uum pawashing machine.
And she was quick, and she didn't even know what a washing machine was.
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hãã, hâari upáthriihti káru.
Yes, sometimes it was even raining.
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xás káru nuu aah nukyáati îikam.
And we made a fire outside.
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vaa vúra ip pa'aapúnmuti vaa vúra kich vaa kuméekrii.
We only knew that kind of living.
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hãã, vaa vúra kich i'aapúnmuti vaa kuméekrii.
Yes, you only knew that kind of living.
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pananiyukúku vúra uum kâarim umúsahitih.
My shoes are ugly.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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puptaxátiihtihara pami'ífunih.
You didn't comb your hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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naa vúra puxích néetniivkatih.
I am really mean.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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uum vúra puxích kuníxviiphinaatih.
They are really mean.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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vúra puxích yáv kunikyâatih.
They really do good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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fâat ixútih"
kíri ni'av"?
What do you want to eat?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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akvaat húm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like (to eat) raccoon?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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fâatva uchuuphítih.
He said something.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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pay uum vaa kunipítih.
They are saying that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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vaa apxantínihichas panuchuphuníshkoonaatih.
We are talking to those white people.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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kunyunyúunhinaatih.
They are all crazy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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pay vúra uum uxutih iyunyúunhitih.
He [that one] thinks you are crazy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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koovúra panitháfiiptih.
I ate all of it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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uktinvunáatih.
She is hitting them with rocks.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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xáyfaat ishkáakatih.
Stop jumping on it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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xáyfaat i'áamtih.
Don't be eating.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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náa pananipúsihich axákyaan ni'ákihtih.
I feed my cat twice (a day).Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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náa kuyrákyaan ni'áamtih.
I eat three times (a day).Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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náa píthyaan ni'áamtih.
I eat four times (a day).Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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naa vúra pananipúsihich vúra táay u'áamtih.
My cat eats many times.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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pananipúsihich uum vúra máh'iit kích u'áamtih.
My cat only eats in the morning.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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náa neepêerat tá kóo íim peeshkâaktih.
She told me no more jumping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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xáyfaat tá kóo peeshkâaktih.
Stop, no more jumping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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tá kóo peexápkooti pa'unúhxiitich.
Quit kicking the ball.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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papúsihich vúra uum táay poo'áamtih,
xas vúra uum puxích tu'íshriivha.
The cat ate so much, and she became fat.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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papúsihich vúra pu'áamtihara,
xás vúra payêem tá áxaska.
The cat didn't eat, and now she is skinny.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'ishkêesh u'úuhtih.
The river is rising.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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vúra uum kúnish puyáv imúsahatihara.
You don't look so good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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puyáv imúsahatihara.
You don't look good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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poo'íifti xás vúra vaa kâarim,
vúra púfaat pu'ûum,
táay vúra púfaat.
When he was growing up he was poor, he didn't have hardly anything, he didn't have much.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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vúra púfaat uum vúra mu'ám mu'uup,
xás vúra vaa kâarim,
xás vúra vaa poo'íiftih.
He didn't have any food or possessions, he was poor, that is how he grew up.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'áraar uum vúra pupítihara.
The Indian people didn't say that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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kúnish apxantínihich imusahitih.
You white people look like that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íim káru pee'áhooti vúrava kúnish furáthfip.
When you arrived it seemed like you were cranky.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íp peevôonfuruk íp kúnish vaa ifuráthfiptih.
It seemed like you were cranky when you came in.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íp u'áasishriheen kúnish vaa puyáv ipmahóonkoonatihara.
She laid down, she wasn't feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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xás vúra uum yáv neepmahóonkoonatih.
I am feeling better.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íim hûut ipmahóonkoonatih?
How do you you feel?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íim yáv ipmahóonkoonatih.
You are feeling better.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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yáv ikyáati papúsihich.
You treat the cat good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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xáyfaat íkyav vaa,
kâarim ikyáatih.
Don't treat her [the cat] that way, you are treating her badly.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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íp poovôonfuruk uksáahtih.
When she came in the house she was laughing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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uum káru poovôonfurukati puyáv ipmahóonkoonatihara.
And when she came in she was not feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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îikam paaxíitichas kunihmárathunanaatih,
xás vúra vaa káan kuniksháahtih.
The kids are all running around outside, they are happy out there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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îikam paaxíitichas kunihmárathununaatih,
xas vúra koovúra yáv kunipmahóonkoonatih.
The kids are running around outside, they are all feeling happy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pûuhara,
naa nixúti îikam vúra káan kunihmárathununaatih,
xás koovúra vaa vúra yáv kunipmahóonkoonatih.
No, I think they are running around there outside, they are all feeling happy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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oh vúra utátuyishrihti vaa vúra páy paporch.
Oh, she finished sweeping the porch.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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pa'ávansa uthxúunatih.
The man is wearing it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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vaa káan uyukúkuhiti yukúkuh.
The shoe is on her foot.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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káan uvararîihvutih
It's hanging there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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kâan uvararîihvutih káan pá'aan
It's hanging on the rope.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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vaa káan u'íchunvutih.
He's hiding.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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vaa káan u''íchunvutih.
He's hiding there.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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papúsihich vúra itíhaan ukvíit-hitih.
The cat is always sleeping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about a cat (VS-34b) | read full text
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yáxa koovúra kunikvíit-hinaatih.
Look they are all sleeping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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nipítaptih.
I know her.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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naa nikvíit-hitih.
I'm sleepingSource: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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iim húm ikvíit-hitih
Are you sleeping?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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pûuhara náa puneekvíi-hitihara.
No I'm not sleepingSource: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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naa káru nikyámiichvutih.
I am playing too.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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ipít vúra uum nikyámiichvutih.
Yesterday I was playing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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naa payêem ni'úufithvutih.
I'm swimming.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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nikvíit-hitiheesh.
I will be sleeping.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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panipihnîichhaak,
vúra itíhaan nikvíit-hitiheesh.
When I get to be an old man, I'll be sleeping all the time.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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pachishíi uhyíivtih.
The dog is barking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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úumkun kunchuuphítih.
They're talking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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naa vúra nixúti yáv panivíiktih.
I hope I weave well.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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payáv nipmahóonkoonatih,
vaa vúra vikáyav.
When I am happy, I weave well (the weaving is good).Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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yáv nipmahóonkoonatih xas vúra vaa vikáyav káru.
I am happy and the weaving is good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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uum vura itíhaan neepsháravriiktih.
She always helps me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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uum vúra itíhaan îin neepsháravriiktih
She always helps me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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fâat ixúti i'áveesh?
What do you feel like eating?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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fâat ivíshtaantih,
musmús'iish káru nakísh'iish?
What do you want, beef or pork?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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naa musmús'iish nivíshtáantih.
I like beef.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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úchish húm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like milk?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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kahtíshraam uum i'aramsîiprimtih?
Are you from Yreka?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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puxích kâarim kun'ipmahóonkoonatih.
They're feeling bad.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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yáv kun'ipmahóonkoonatih.
They're feeling good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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pananitípah vúra uum kâarim upmahóonkoonatih.
My brother is not feeling so good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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pi'êepvari,
kári naa nîinamich,
kunípeenti"
chími pimnîishi!"
Long ago, I was little, (people) used to say, “Start cooking!”Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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xás pukári kín'aapunmutihara pahári patóo mtup.
And we didn’t know when (the food) was done.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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mâaka kúuk tá núktaama,
vaa káan pananítaat utháaniv,
uyíkihitih.
We took it in the other room, my mother was lying there, she was sick.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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xasík nupêenti
" chími payêem nuxúti kíri gravy núkyav."
Then we told her we “Now we would like to make gravy.”Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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xás upíip
" pa'íshaha itárivramnihaak, vaa kári vúra itasámsaamtiheesh itíhaan,
peekóohaak uum vaa get lumpy."
And she said, “Pour the water in, and keep stirring it all the time, if you stop, it will get lumpy.”Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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káru vaa pafâat ixútihaak
" kíri nímnish."
(She told me to cook) whatever I wanted to.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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kári vúra naa nîinamich,
víri vaa kumá'ii payêem naa uum púfaat neekyâatihara.
I was little then (chuckle), but now I can’t do anything.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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víri ûum vúra panivúrayvutih.
I can hardly get around.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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paninípshiih áthiik tu'ívahaak,
vaa kári vúra puna'áhootihara.
When my legs get cold, then I can’t walk.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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pu'îikam neefyúkutihara.
I can’t take a walk outdoors.Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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xás káan nikmárihivrik pihnîich wagon áxak padonkey kunithyúruti.
And I met him, an old man, two donkeys were pulling a wagon.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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xás néepeenti, "
chí payôok ihyárihish,
payôok áxak padonkeys."
And he told me, "Stand right here, right here by the two donkeys."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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naa vúra pu naxútihan,
kíri kunikviit-hívath.
I just didn't want them to put him to sleep.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás káruk vúra...
itíhaan vúra ithéekxaram xúus ni'éethti.
And upriver ... I was taking care of him all night.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás nipíti"
pûuhara."
And I kept saying no."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás kanéepeenti, "
pamichíshiih mít uum êen úkuuyvanik.
And they were telling me, "A board fell on your dog.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii paxáas tu'iv,
pu'uum vúra fâat kumakêemish áamtihan."
"That's why he almost died, he didn’t eat any kind of poison."Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
xás payêem uum vúra tu'aráriihkanha,
puhúun vúra íinatihan.
And now he's well, there's nothing wrong with him.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
káruma káru taay u'ôorahiti pa'ánav patá níkvar,
pani'ákihti.
And in fact it cost a lot, the medicine that I bought, that I was giving him.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
payêem puhúun íinatihan.
Now there’s nothing wrong with him.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text -
manâa naa mít káru nîinamich itíhaan áhup nukyâati,
pananitípa xákaan,
áhup núkpaakti.
Well, also when I was little, we were always gathering wood, my brother and I, we were chopping wood.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra tanupipêer,
itíhaan vaa vúra áhup nukyâati.
Again we told each other, “We’re always gathering wood.”Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
víri vaa kumá'ii pa'itíhaan nuu xás nukyáviichvuti aa--
íshaha káru núktaamti.
That’s why we always had to work then ah–we also carried water.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
vúra itíhaan panukyáviichvuti.
We were always working.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
áhup káru nu'akaafúrukvuti.
We were also carrying wood into the house in our arms.Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text -
upáthriihtih.
It's been raining, it's raining.Source: Violet Super, Sentences about weather and cooking (VSu-05) | read full text
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ukyútunihtih.
It's snowing.Source: Violet Super, Sentences about weather and cooking (VSu-05) | read full text
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akráa itíhaan vúra kuníthtiitih.
They were always gambling (with) Eel.Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
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koovúra kunchífichtih.
They were winning everything.Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
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púxich tá ná'aachichha,
pa'ôok tá níkrii panámniik,
pa'ôok kóovan nu'áraarahiti.
I'm very happy that I'm here in Orleans, that I'm here with all of you.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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naa vúra púfaat na'aapúnmutiharahanik!
I didn't know anything!Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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kúna vúra kúkuum ôok tá ni'uum,
pananífyiivshas nimúsarukti,
kári vúra pakáruk váhi ni'aapúnmiikti.
But I've come back here again, I'm visiting my friends, and I'm still learning the Karuk language.Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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koovúra panani'araréefyiivshas naa kíipeentihap, "
yôotva,
púxich taná'aachichha!"
To all my Indian friends, I'm saying, "Thank you, I'm very glad!"Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text
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pa'áraar uum pupítihara pamú'arama múthvuy patu'ívahaak.
The Indian did not say his child's name when it died.Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
káru vúra koovúra pamu'áraaras tá kun'ívahaak pupítihara mukun'íthvuy.
And when any of his relatives died, he did not say their names.Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
"
vaa uum"
kunipíti "
pitaxyárih."
That, they said, was "swearing."Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
víriva kári uum tá kunipíti peethvuy,
vúra puhúunhara.
Then they could still say the name, and no harm was done.Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
xás hâari vúra ára puxútihara,
víri vúra tóo piip peethvuy.
Sometimes a person just wasn't thinking, so he said the name.Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text -
káan pihnêefich umáahtih,
tóo mah poopathuvrîinati ára kaan.
Coyote saw him there, he saw the person there measuring strings of money.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
hôoy imáahti peeshpuk."
And he said, "Where do you find the money?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás uxútih, "
tîi kanparíshriihvi.
And he thought, "Let me twine string!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áhootih.
He was traveling like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa too xus, "
puna'ísheeshara,
naa ishpúk nikyâantih."
He thought like that, "I won't drink, I'm going to get money."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás yánava pa'íshaha,
pasaamvároo úxaaktih.
Then he saw the water, the creek was sounding.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás uthítiv,
úxaaktih,
pa'íshaha úxaaktih.
Then he heard it, it was sounding, the water was sounding.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa uthítiimtih,
úxaaktih pa'íshaha patuchunvákir.
He heard it that way, the water was sounding as he sneaked up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás tóo mah pa'íshaha poovúuntih.
And he saw the water flowing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áhootih,
vúra tá yíiv káruk.
He was walking that way, a long ways upriver by this time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
sáruk tóo tfákutih.
He looked downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
sáruk peeshkêesh uvuunváraktih.
Downhill the river was flowing downriverward.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás ee!
vúra vaa u'áhootih,
vúra tá kâarim.
And oh! he was walking that way, he was really bad off.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás yánava kúkuum káan íshaha úxaaktih,
usaamvároohitih.
And he saw again the water sounding there, there was a creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás úmuustih,
vúra uum táay pa'íshaha,
vúra ûumukich.
And he looked; there was a lot of water, just close.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás sáruk tóo tfákutih.
And he looked away downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
vúra vaa sáruk uvuunváraktih peeshkéesh.
Downhill the river was flowing downriverward like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
káruma kahyúras ishpúk nikyâantih."
I'm going to get money at Klamath Lakes."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás úuth utkáratih.
And he looked out to the water.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás yúruk utrûuputih.
And he looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
yánava yúruk ifápiitsha kuntákiriti astiip.
He saw young women leaching on the bank downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
ûumukich vúra tóo muustih pakuntákiritih.
Nearby he looked at them leaching.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
kári xás pa'ifápiit sáruk úuth utkáratih.
And the girl looked downhill into the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
tá kunimúsar poopthivrúhroonatih.
They went to look at it floating back upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
upipshinvárihva peeshpúk káruk ukyâantih.
He forgot that he was going upriver to get money.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
xás kári vaa vúra kích káan u'iishhíti vuutrava'áfiv.
And there was still meat there in his testicles.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
uknîi.
púyava káruk kahyúras kun'áraarahiti paastaah.
Once upon a time... The ducks lived upriver at Klamath Lakes.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás púyava imáan yáan ník vúra usúpaahiti,
kári tá kunpávyiihship.
Then the next day it was just daybreak, and they left again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
káruk tá kunpávyiihma,
tusupaháyaachha,
pámita káan kun'arámsiiprintih.
They arrived back upriver where they came from, it was mid-morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
itaharéekxaram kunivyihvarákootih,
xás kunpakúriihvunaatih.
For ten nights they traveled through to there, and they sang.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
vaa kíp pu'ípararahara,
taay kíp ukupavêenahitih."
That one is just not reliable, he just does lots of tricks."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
káruma yôorukam pamukun'áhup uyvóoraahitih.
Their wood was piled up in the corner.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
uthítiimti pakunípeenti "
tu'áhooheen."
He heard them telling (each other), "He has come."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás kunipêer papihnêefich "
i'asímchaaktiheesh ik.
And they told Coyote, "You must keep your eyes closed.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
imáan máh'iit yáan hôoy usúpaahitih,
púyava kunpávyiihma.
The next morning it was just daylight here and there, then they went there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
púyava chavúra tá yíiv vúrava u'asímchaaktih.
So finally he kept his eyes closed like that for a long ways.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
vaa ík vúra panuvíitihaak.
That's the way it must be when we paddle.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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vaa ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh."
You will have to keep your eyes closed like that."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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xás páy pasâam usaamvárakti u'árihroov.
And he went upriver downhill where that flows down from upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
koovúra pa'áraar umáahvunaatih, "
iimkun vúra pufáatsahara.
He saw all the people (and said), "You-all are just nothings.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
káan xás umáh áraar,
uphikirîihvutih.
And there he saw a person, he was sweating himself.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
tîi kanpakatkâatih."
And he thought, "Let me taste it!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás úpeenti "
îim ôok keemisha'îin i'áveeshap."
And he told (the person sweating), "A monster outside here is going to eat you."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
eee!
naa nipêesh '
pihnêefich ôok uvúrayvutiheen.'
And he thought, "Ah, I'll bet Coyote has been around here!Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
vaa kíp kôok uvíshvaanti xathímtas."
And he thought, "He just likes that kind, roasted grasshoppers."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
tîi matée kóomahich kan'ífapvi paxathímtas.
And he thought, "Let me pick up a few roasted grasshoppers for a moment!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti "
hûut áta kúth papunayâavahitihara."
And (after he had eaten them), he thought "I wonder why I'm not getting full?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
naa nixúti '
ífuthkam napávyiihrishuktih pani'áamti.'"
And he thought, "I think they're coming out of me in the rear as I eat."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri káan ukuchnáxathunatih.
(Coyote) was sticking his buttocks around there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
nixúti '
chími ni'uumêesh kahyúras.'"
And he thought, "I think I'm about to reach Klamath Lakes."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
tuthítiv poothivnúrutih.
He heard it thundering.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vaa ukupathitívahitih,
kúnish upíti "
huhuhuhuhuhu."
He heard that, it sort of said, "Huhuhuhuhuhu."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
chími ni'uumêesh kahyúras."
And he thought, "I'm about to reach Klamath Lakes."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy pamu'afupchúrax poo'iinkútih.
There it was his anus burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
hinupáy íp pa'axváha mûuk upsívshaapat hinupáy vaa poo'iinkútih.
There it was the pitch he had sealed it with that was burning.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víriva kích upíti "
átuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh."
He was just saying, "átuhtuhtuhtuhtuh!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
yanéekva pasaamvároo uvúrunihtih.
There was a creek flowing down.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
vúra puna'ísheeshara ishkéesh'aas."
And he thought, "I won't drink river water."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
múvaas u'iithvútih.
He was carrying his blanket.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri vaa ukupítih.
He did that.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
xâatik vúra ni'ish,
peeshkéesh'aas.
And he thought, "Let me drink the river water.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chavúra umáh yánava ithyáruk ukúripaahiti itháriip.
Finally he saw it, he saw a fir tree lying fallen out across-stream.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri vúra uum táay pa'ahuptunvêechas u'áthanvaraktih.
There were a lot of little sticks floating down from upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chími axmáy yúruk utrûuputih.
Suddenly he looked downriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri vaa kunkupítih,
pa'asiktávaansa kunxúti "
kíri nutururípan pa'áhup."
They were doing that, the women were trying to hook out the sticks.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víri uvuunôovutih.
There was an eddy.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
"
ooo!"
pa'asiktávaansa kunpiip, "
ooo!
yáxa páykuuk kóo ahupyâamach uthivrúhuthunatih.
"Oh," the women said, "oh, look there, such a pretty stick is floating around.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
víriva kuntafiripfíriptih.
But they kept missing it.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
káruma uum pihnêefich uxúti "
xáy kanátaatripaa."
Coyote was thinking, "Let them not hook me out."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chavúra kúkuum vaa káan umáh asiktávaansa astiip,
áhup kunikyáavanaatih.
Finally he saw women there on the bank again, they were gathering wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
púyava ník kunímuustih.
So they looked at it.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
"
eee!"
xás uxúti pihnêefich "
yáas naa nixúti '
tá nishíinvar.'"
"Ah," Coyote thought then, "now I think I've drowned."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kôokaninay vúra pakunmáahti úuth kunpíkfuutkaanva.
Everywhere they saw him, they pushed him back out into the river.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
uxúti "
tîi kanpakatkâati papatúmkir."
And he thought, "Let me taste the pillows!"Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
ith'áraan ník kúna tóo pvôoruvrath,
kunithyivúniihvutih.
(As) each person crawled in, they fell down.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip "
naa nixúti '
pihnêefich ôokninay uvúrayvutih.'
And they said, "I think Coyote is wandering around here.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra vaa utháaniv,
uthítiimti pakunchuphúruthunatih.
(Coyote) lay like that, he heard them talking about him.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti pihnêefich "
nanithívthaaneen tá kunchuphúruthun."
And Coyote thought, "They're talking about my country."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás kunípeenti pihnêefich "
payêem pukinípkookanpeeshara."
Then they told Coyote, "Now you won't go with us again."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás u'árihroov,
upakurîihvutih.
And he went upriver, he was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás kâam útroovutih.
And he looked upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás íp táay áan usáanvutihat,
káruma vaa íp uvúpareeshat pamúspuk.
He was carrying a lot of thread, that's what he was going to string his money with.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
yánava káan u'íinvahitih.
He saw there was a forest fire there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás vúra hûutva tu'iin,
púxay ta'ítam yâavahitihara.
But what was the matter with him? he wasn't getting full.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás ífuthkam kúuk upitvûutih.
And he looked behind him.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
yánava páxaath vaa vúra ukupa'íshipithunahiti pookupavúrayvahitiheen.
He saw the grasshoppers strung around where he had been wandering.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás upíip "
hôoy vúra kumeethívthaaneen usnúrutih."
And he said, "It's thundering somewhere in the country."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás yanava káan ára upíkniihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
And he saw a person was sweating himself there, he was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
chími chîimich vúra kanpakatkâatih."
Let me just taste a little."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra u'áhootih.
But he just kept traveling.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás vúra tá pu'áhootihara,
vúra tóo kfuuktih.
And he wasn't walking any more, he was creeping by now.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás too mah,
astíip sah'áhup kunikyáavunaatih.
And he saw, they were gathering driftwood on the shore.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás yánava káan ára kun'áraarahitih.
And he saw people were living there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás káan yánava pamukunpatúmkir káru pamukun'ikrívkir athkúrit ukyâarahitih.
And he saw there that their pillows and their chairs were made of fat.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
yáas kunpamváratih.
They had just finished eating.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
pihnêefich vúra káan úyruuhriv,
púxay vúra kêenatihara.
Coyote lay there, he didn't stir.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich uum úyruuhriv,
u'asímchaaktih.
Coyote lay (there), he kept his eyes closed.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás vúra tu'ûuri póoyruuhriv,
poo'asímchaaktih.
And he got tired lying (there), keeping his eyes closed.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
púyava kúth uum pootíshraamhiti panámniik.
That's why there is a flat at Orleans.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yánava ôok u'iinváhitih.
And he saw it, he saw there was a forest fire here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kahyúras nivâaramutih,
ishpúk nikyâantih."
I'm going to Klamath Lakes, I'm going to get money."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
vúra puyâavahitih.
He couldn't get full.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
hûut kumá'ii papunayâavahitihara."
And he thought, "Why am I not getting full?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
hínupa áfup kunpávyiihrishukti poo'áamtih.
There they were coming out of his buttocks as he ate.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
naa kahyúras nivâaramutih,
ishpúk nikyâantih.
And he said, "I'm going to Klamath Lakes, I'm going to get money.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás uthítiv,
áas uvúuntih.
And he heard it, water flowing.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás umah,
yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás asvúut kunívyiihrishuk,
kunkitaxríhahitih.
And ants came out, they had wings.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
víri vaa kunípeentih "
pihneefpíshtaaxva."
That's what they call "Coyote pulling-back-foreskin."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kun'iruveehíshriihva pa'îin kun'áharamutih,
kunímuustih,
kunpiip, "
fâatkook."
And those who were chasing him stopped, they looked, they said, "What is it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kun'iruveehíshriihva,
kunímuustih,
kunpiip, "
fâatkook."
Then (the pursuers) stopped, they looked, they said, "What is it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
vaa pakunípeenti "
pihneefchúnivach."
That's what they call "little Coyote-urine" (Astragalinus sp.)Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunihmáravarak pa'îin kun'áharamutih.
And the ones chasing him ran down from upriver.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
naa nixúti '
upíti "
tá yúrukheen."'"
And they said, "I think he says he's already downriver."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip pa'îin kun'áharamutih, "
naa nipêesh '
vaa pa'ípa ikmaháchraam kúkreenhat.'"
Then the ones chasing him said, "I'll bet that was him who was in the sweathouse."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás tée kxurar,
kári xás uthítiv,
kunchúuphitih.
By now it was evening, and he heard them, they were talking.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kuníthvuy pa'úkraam,
yítha káru uum upítih, "
vaa kuma'úkraam nipikvêeshriheesh."
And they named the ponds, and (each) one said, "I will camp at that pond."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
kári xás kunipêer "
vúra ík i'asímchaaktiheesh.
And they told him, "You must keep your eyes closed.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
payêem ík vúra i'asímchaaktiheesh.
This time you must keep your eyes closed.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás úuth upiytúykaanva páyuux,
uknamxánahich mú'uuthkam,
víri vaa kumá'ii pakêech usirishkírahitih.
And he kicked the dirt out in the river, out from uknamxánahich, that's why there's a big bar (there).Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás káan atahári vúra ukrihankôotih.
He was always fishing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pu'akara'îin kínmaahtihap.
And nobody had seen them.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás upêer pasípnuuk "
naa ík vúra neemúsahitiheesh peekûuntakoo.
And he said to the storage basket, "You must look like me as you sit.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xasík ík ipakurîihvutiheesh ik."
You must be singing."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam úkriihvaheen pasípnuuk,
upakurîihvutih.
Then the storage basket fished, it was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
koovúra paniníshaanva ishpúk kamikxúrikarahiti káru fúrax."
Let all my clothes be decorated with money and woodpecker heads!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yánava pa'ifápiitsha xákarari kun'íin poothivtapárahitihirak.
And he saw the girls sitting on each side where people were war-dancing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás koovura'îin kunímuustih.
And everybody was looking at him.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás tá kunpatánvish "
hôoy i'aramsîiprivtih."
And they asked him, "Where do you come from?"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
"
naa vúra yíiv ni'aramsîiprivti páy nanuxákararih."
"I come from far away, from the outside."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
kâam kiimúsan póokriihvutihirak."
Go look upriver where he's fishing."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
yánava káan úkriihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
They saw him there fishing, he was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yúruk pakunpávyiihma tá kunpiip, "
uum vúra pihnêefich kâam úkriihvutih,
upakurîihvutih.
And when they got back downriver, they said, "It's Coyote upriver fishing, he's singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
"
vúra hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih,
tá pukin'aapúnmara.
"Where does he come from? We don't know.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
yánava káan kích sípnuuk úkrii,
upakurîihvutih.
They saw it was just a storage basket sitting there, it was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
ta'ítam "
yée naa hínupa páy uum vúra pihnêefich payûum uthívtaaptih.
So (they said), "Well, that's Coyote who is dancing downriver!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
kinpiksháyvuunishtih.
He's deceiving us.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás kunpíip "
uum pihnêefich pathivtaaptíhan,
pu'uumhára peekriihvútihan.
And they said, "It's Coyote who's dancing, it's not him that's fishing.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yánava káan ípaha u'íihya,
xás usúrukaahitih.
And he saw a tree standing there, and there was a hole in it.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás patishanihyûum ukvíriprup víri kúna kâam pa'îin kun'áharamuti tá kunihmáravarak.
And when he ran downriver from tishániik, the ones following him were running down just upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pa'îin kun'áharamuti xára xás kunithyárukha,
ayu'âach ishahákaam.
And those following him were a long time crossing, because there was a lot of water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás uthítiv, akâayva upakurîihvutih.
And he heard it, someone was singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áhootih.
He was traveling like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
uum káru upakurîihvuti poo'áhootih, " haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa."
He was singing too as he traveled, "haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vúra vaa uthítiimti poopakurîihvutih.
He heard (someone) singing like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
hôoyva kúnish kunpakúriihvutih.
Somewhere they were sort of singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'árihroovutih.
He was going upriver that way.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vúra vaa upakurîihvuti uum pamupákurih. " haninuvêe naa hanuvêe
naa."
He was singing his song that way, "haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vúra vaa uthítiimti poopakurîihvutih vúra tá ûumukich, " kitâana kitâana
íiyaa."
He heard the singing that way just close by, "kitâana kitâana îyaa."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
upakurîihvutih, " kitâana kitâana íiyaa."
He was singing, "kitâana kitâana íiya."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
uxus, " íf tá na'ûuri panipakurîihvutih.
He thought, "I'm really tired of singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás u'árihroovutih.
So he went upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
vaa páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik pakáruk kahyúras uvâaramutih. kupánakanakana.
Coyote did that, when he went upriver to Klamath Lakes. kupánakanakana.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás káan avansatínihich ukûuruthunatih.
And a flat man was sliding around there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pa'aantunvêech kun'ivitshurooti víri vaa u'ífiktih.
And when they picked off the little strings, he was picking them up.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás vaa uparishríihvutih.
And he was twining that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra koovúra kunikyávunaatih.
And they were all twining.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pa'á' kunívyiihma xás kunpíip
" kun'íhukarahitih."
And when they got up, then they said, "They're having a flower-dance."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
víri pa'avansáxiich uum áachip pakun'íihtih.
There were the boys dancing in the middle.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás tá kunímuusti pa'iihvúnaa.
And they watched the dance.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
yakún uumkun yúruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih,
káru káruk ithivthaneen'ípan kun'íhmootih."
They dance to the downriver end of the world, and they dance to the upriver end of the world."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | 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 yánava vúra tá kunithyúrutih.
And they saw they were just dragging him.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 -
naa nixúti
' vúra nishkákuniheesh.'
I think I'll jump down."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás póokyiimti tukuchnáxavrin,
xás tóo krírihivrin,
xás vúra xára ukyiivúur.
And when he fell, he turned head over heels, and he rolled over sideways, and he was falling for a long time.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
kári xás pihnêefich u'áhootih,
upakurîihvutih.
So Coyote was traveling, he was singing.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás papihnêefich u'ípahoo,
upakurîihvuti pamukunpákurih.
And Coyote went on, he was singing their song.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áharamunaatih.
He was following them like that.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás upíip "
fâat iimkun kukyâatih."
And he said, "What do you do?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip "
nuu páy peethívthaaneen itaharâan nupíhiroopithvutih."
And they said, "We dance around this earth ten times."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íhmaathtih.
They just kept making him dance.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
xás pakáan u'úum yánava vúra áhtaay má'ninay,
úmkuufhinaatih,
u'iinvúnaatih.
And when he got there, he saw lots of fire in the mountains, there was lots of smoke, there were forest fires.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás papihnêefich u'úum yánava axíich kích kun'áraarahitih.
And when Coyote got there, he saw there were nothing but children.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás paaxíich upiip, "
má'ninay kun'ákunvunaatih."
And the children said, "They're hunting in the mountains."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás paaxich'îin kunímuustih.
And the children looked at him.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
naa vúra puna'aapúnmutihara '
hôoy uum papihnêefich úkrii.'"
I don't know where Coyote is."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás úpeenvunaa, "
pay'ôok kiitkúrihtih."
And he told them, "Look in here."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás "
yâamachas kumúsahitih."
And (he said), "You look pretty."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás káan úyruuhriv,
áak upiivkírihtih.
And he lay there, he stuck his feet in the fire.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás peethyáruk kunitkárati axmáy úmkuufha kufípriik.
And when they looked across-river, suddenly there was smoke in the willow-grove.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
pihnêefich káan u'árihroovutih.
Coyote was going upriver there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás káan yánava ára kun'áraarahitih.
And there he saw people were living.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
yánava yítha âapun utháaniv, ukuhítih.
He saw one (girl) lying down, she was sick.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás kári upíti " xk!," úkxiikvutih.
And he kept saying, "xk," he was making a hawking noise.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xakáaniich iinâak páxuus u'uumútih.
Just the two of them were indoors when he doctored.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás upiip yítha " hûut upítih payeeripáxvuh,
iinâak ukpêehvutih."
Then one said, "What is the girl saying? She's shouting inside."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
hínu páy uum upíkshaayvutih, putáktahara, pu'araraxus'úmaanhara.
There he was lying, he wasn't a doctor, he wasn't a shaman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás pakéevniikich upiip " oo! puyávhara papihnêefich, táay ukupavêenahiti papihnêefich."
And the old woman said, "Oh, Coyote's no good, he does lots of mischief!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás sáruk kuntúraayvutih, púra fátaak.
And they looked for him downhill, (but) he was nowhere (to be seen).Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
íim êev hûum kích ixútih."
What do you think, dear?Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás upiip " ii! naa êev káru vúra vaa nixútih."
And she said, "Alas, dear, I think so too."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xás kunpínaa, vaa kích vúra pakunipítih" sishanayâamach tóo síinvar."
And they came back uphill; that was all they were saying, "sishanayâamach has drowned."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
axmáy ithyáruk úskaakroov,
upihnêefhitih.
Suddenly he jumped upriverward across-river, he gave a coyote-howl.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
hínu páy uum ithyáruk tóo kvíriproov, káruma uum kunxútih " tóo síinvar."
There he ran upriverward across-river; the fact was, they thought he had drowned.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
uxútih,
" kumâam úkrii, pakúusrah."
He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
xás uxútih,
" vaa tá káan úkrii, pakúusrah."
He thought, "The sun's right there."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
chavúra pumahára, hôoy poo'aramsîiprivtih.
In the end he didn't find where it came from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full text -
kári xás kunxútih, "
chími núthtiitvunaa."
And they thought, "Let's gamble."Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
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pihnêefich káruk u'árihroovutih.
Coyote was going upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kári xás uxútih " hûut yáxa tá ná'iin."
And he thought, "Look, what's wrong with me?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás upímuustih, patupútyiinkach.
And he looked at it again, when he had defecated on it.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kári xás " ee! aaf pani'áamtih, aaf pani'áamtih, tUtUtUtU!"
Then (he said), "Oh, it's excrement that I'm eating, it's excrement that I'm eating, tUtUtUtU!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
kunpiip, " xâatik ápap yúruk uvuunúpahitih, káru ápap káruk uvuunôovutih.
(The gods) said, "Let (the river) flow downstream on one side, and flow upstream on the other side.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
xâatik vaa ukupítih."
Let it do that."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
ithyáruk kúna úpviitrooveesh, uthívruuhrooveesh káru, káruk uvuunôovahiti pa'íshaha.
They would travel back upstream on the other side, they would float upstream also, the water was flowing upstream.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
xáyfaat vaa ukupítih.
Let it not do that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
koovúra yúruk kámvuunupahitih.
Let it all flow downstream.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
vaa uum vúra káan ifmaarápiit kamíktaatroovutih, káruk uvítroovutih."
Let the new married man push his way upstream there, (when) he is traveling upstream."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, " vaa vúra kun'írunaatiheesh patur."
And then they said, "The basket-loads will walk (home by themselves)."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
vúra uum yararápiit vúra kámtuuntih."
Let the new married woman be carrying it."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
kári xás vaa ukupíti payêem, tá pu'áhootihara patur.
So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
xás úpeenti pamú'aramah, "
kúna vúra yáv peekupeekrêehitiheesh.
And he told his child, "But you will live well.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
hôoy íf akáray îin xuus i'éethtiheeshap.
Nobody will take care of you.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
chémi."
And she said, "All right."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
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kúna vúra pamukrívraam vaa vúra umúsahiti panunukrívraam,
koovúra pootâayhiti iinâak vaa vúra umúsahiti ôok iinâak pootâayhitih.
"But his house looks just like our house, everything that is inside looks just like what is inside here.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
káru uum naa vúra neemúsahiti pa'ávansa.
And he looks just like me, the man.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
pamutiiv káru vúra aaxkúnishichas,
vaa vúra pánaa neemúsahiti pananítiiv.
His ears are reddish too, just like my ears look.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
vúra pusakeemvárihveeshara,
koovúra vaa umúsahiti panunú'uup.
You won't be homesick, everything looks like our things.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
hâari vúra xasík napimusarûukvutiheesh."
You can come back to see me sometime."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás poo'úum yánava koovúra vaa umúsahiti pamukun'îikam umúsahitih,
víri íf kákach poopíti vaa umúsahitih.
And when she arrived, she saw that everything looked like it looked outside their house, it was true how daddy said it looked.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
chími pami'áka pimúsan."
Then (her husband) said, "Go see your father again."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
vúra if,
koovúra vaa umúsahiti ôok pananú'uup,
panini'ávan mukrívraam."
And she said, "It's true, everything looks like our things here, in my husband's house."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
tá na'ûuri páykuuk pani'ahoonkôoti yiiv."
And she said, "I'm tired of going by the far way yonder."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás pâanpay xás uxús "
naa nixúti '
napikshayvûunishti,'
yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti panunú'uup,
káru uum vúra vaa umúsahiti panini'áka.
Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
chémi.
And she said, "All right.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás upíti "
pûuhara,
iim vúra pácheech ipvâarami."
And he said, "No, you go back alone."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
yánava káan áraar u'áhootih,
ikrívraam u'iithvútih.
She saw a person travelling there, he was carrying a house.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíti, "
vaa vúra káru vúra pa'áraar uumkun kunkúpheesh,
pánaa tá nikuupha."
And Coyote said, "The people will do just like that too, like I did."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " púra kára vúra áama aamtíheeshara, yúkun tá nupíshunva pa'áama."
And they said, "Nobody will eat salmon, we have hidden the salmon."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás pihnêefich uxús, " púxay vúra vaa kupítiheeshara."
And Coyote thought, "They can't do that."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kunpatánvish, " fâat kumá'ii ivúrayvutih."
And they asked him, "Why are you wandering around?"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, " káruk ithivthaneen'ípan nivâaramutih."
And he said, "I'm going upriver to the end of the world."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kunxús pa'asiktávaansas, " hôoy uum poo'aramsîiprivtihirak.
Then the women thought, "Where is it that he comes from?Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
káan hínupa áama kun'áamtih."
They're eating salmon there!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
víri vaa kúth payêem paxuntápan kôokaninay vúra u'íiftih.
That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
víri vaa kúth sâam usaamnúputih, káru vaa kúth áama ukvíripraatih.
That's why (the water) flows downstream, and that's why salmon run up the river.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
ithyáruk pootkáratih yánava pavuhvúha tu'íshipva, uthítiimti pakuníhyiivtih.
When she looked across-river, she saw the jump dance lining up, she heard them shouting.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
víri hûutva kóo ithívthaaneen u'iináhaak, vaa vúra kóo kuníhruuvtiheesh pasímsiim.
However long the world exists, so long will they use (her) knife.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
vaa kumûuk kuníhviithtiheesh peeshyâat, peethívthaaneen tá kunpikyâahaak.
They will clean the spring salmon with that, when they fix the world.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
upêer "
pamí'arama nikvárakuktih."
He said, "I am coming to buy your child."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
ta'ítam máh'iit yáan vúra usúpaahitih,
uvôoruraa pa'ípaha.
So in the morning it was scarcely dawn, he climbed up the tree.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
âanxus ishvirip'imsháxvu upáputhtih.
Weasel was chewing pine-gum.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vúra vaa uvôoruraatih.
He was climbing up like that.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vaa kích upíti pakéevniikich "
yôotva tu'iv,
panani'íkam."
The old woman was just saying, "Hurray, he's dead, my son-in-law."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
âanxus uum káru pákuri uthiinátih.
Weasel had a song.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás upakurîihvutih.
So he sang.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vúra kári úktaamti pa'úruh.
He was still carrying the eggs.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
hínu páy ikreemyaha'úru póopeenti "
iktûunihi."
There it was eggs of the wind that she told him to take down.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
pakéevniikich uxúti "
pookreemyáhahaak uthivtífuniheesh.
The old woman thought, "When the wind blows, it will blow him down.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás pakéevniikich upíip "
sáruk áama úkuroovuti.
And the old woman said, "Downhill a salmon is lying, head upstream.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
úuth utkáratih.
He looked into the river.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
"
yée naa apsunxára káan úkuroovutih."
"Say, a long snake is lying there, head upstream."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vaa kích upítih pakéevniikich "
yôotva tu'ív panani'íkam."
The old woman was just saying, "Hurray, my son-in-law is dead!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
iinâak vaa kích uthítiimti poopakurîihvuti "
yôotva tu'iiv'íiv,
íkamish tu'iiv'íiv."
Inside he just heard her singing, "Hurray, he's dead, son-in-law is dead!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
yáan vúra usúpaahitih,
pakéevniikich úhyiv.
It was just dawn, (and) the old woman shouted.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
poopakurîihvutih,
upítih "
âanxus itvaratvárat."
When she sang, she said, "âanxus itvaratvárat."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
vaa kích upíti "
itroopatíshaamni tá níykar pa'ávansas.
She kept saying, "I killed nine men.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
kéevniikich vúra uum utapkûuputi póothtiitih.
An old woman liked to gamble.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
pa'ávansa káan tu'uumáhaak tóo piip
" íkamish chími nuthtîiti.
When a man arrived there, she said "Son-in-law, let's gamble!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
púyava kúkuum yítha tu'uum,
kúkuum vúra vaa tóo pêer
" íkamish chími nuthtîiti."
So again one would arrive, again she would say, "Son in law, let's gamble!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
kári xás upiip
" íkamish chími nuthtîiti."
And she said, "Son-in-law, let's gamble."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
âanaxus uthítiimti "
táay tá kiníykar áraaras."
Weasel heard that they were killing a lot of people.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
vúra uum hitíhaan kumasúpaa póomuusti pápikvas.
She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
uumkun kun'áapunmuti "
púxay áamahara."
They knew it was not a salmon.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kúkuum káan uum kun'áraarahiti áraar.
And again people were living there.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
víri vaa nixútih, '
kíri ni'axaychákish.'"
I am thinking, 'Let me catch him!'"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
uum vúra vaa âanaxus úkriivkuti pa'ípaha.
Weasel held on to the tree.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás vaa káan pihnîich úkrii,
áxak pa'avansáxiitichas kunkunaaskúnas-hitih.
And an old man was there, (and) two little boys were playing on a teeter-totter.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
úpêer papihníich, "
chími nukunaaskúnas-hitih."
The old man said to them, "Let's (you and I) play on the teeter-totter."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás âanaxus upiip, "
hûut ipítih."
And Weasel said, "What are you saying?"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
"
nipíti '
kêemachkoo nini'íkam.'"
"I'm saying, 'My poor son-in-law!'"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás âanaxus upiip, "
chími ôok naa,
chími nukunaaskúnas-hitih."
Then Weasel said, "Come here, let's play on the teeter-totter."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás âanaxus tóo naa,
pa'áraar kuniykáranaati âanaxus.
Then Weasel went upriver, the people were killing (i.e., trying to kill) Weasel.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
(. . .)
áxruu áhup mûuk kuníktiinvuti.
(Weasel met two boys who were trying to hunt gray squirrels, but had no bows.) They were throwing sticks at the gray squirrels.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
víri pakéevniikich úmuusti pamupíkvas.
The old woman (his grandmother) was looking at his headdress-feather.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kári pa'ávansas patá kun'ípak ikxúrar yánava papihnîich upakurîihvutih.
And when the men returned in the evening, they saw the old man was singing.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
yánava upítih, "
cháfich kích navíshtaantih."
They saw he was saying, "I just want a bone to gnaw on."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
vaa ukupapakurîihvahitih, "
cháfich kích navíshtaantih."
He was singing that, "I just want a bone to gnaw on."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás vúra papihnîich ucháfichti pa'ípih,
xás aax kích uthuufhíti poocháfichtih.
And the old man was gnawing the bones, and nothing but blood was streaming as he gnawed.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás papihnîich vaa vúra upakurîihvutih, "
cháfich kích navíshtaantih."
And the old man was singing that way, "I just want a bone to chew on."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
víri íp nuxúsaat '
vaa kukupá'aapunmaheesh,'
vaa íp kúth panupaathrámnihat pa'ásipak."
We thought you would know it in that way, that's why we threw them in the baskets."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
ayu'âach páy pasaamnúpahitihan chí kun'íihrupaavish.
It was because they were going to dance downriver that way the stream flows.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
u'aakrúprihtih pa'asiktávaan.
He locked arms with the women.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
víri u'arihishrîihvuti''
matêe kéeyish âapun''.
He was singing "matêe kéeyish âapun".Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íihtih.
They kept dancing that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
pâanpay vúra tóo xráratih.
Finally he was weeping.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'íihtih.
They kept dancing that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
pâanpay vúra tá kunithyúrutih.
Finally they were dragging him.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
káan ník uxrarâavutih.
He gave a cry now and then.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
pamútraax vúra kích tá kun'áaphutih.
They were just carrying his arms.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
uum pa'asiktávaan vúra vaa kun'íihruputih.
The women kept dancing downriver that way.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
kun'áaphuti asaxvuhpihnîich mútraax.
They were carrying Old Man Turtle's arms.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
xás payúrasak kun'íkakurih,
kári vaa vúra kun'áaphuti pamútraax.
And when they jumped into the ocean, they were still carrying his arms.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
imáankam yáan vúra usúpaahitih,
uvâaram.
The next day it was just dawn, (and) he went.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
yáas upvâaramutih.
Then he went home.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
pa'ípun u'êechtihach.
He was carrying just the tail.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
yiimúsich úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kuníhyiivtih.
They were shouting.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás pa'asiktávaan uxús "
naa nixúti '
kin'áhachakutih.'"
And the woman thought, "I think he's holding out on us."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
naa nixúti '
kin'áhachakutih.'"
I think he's holding out on us."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
hínupa vúra kin'áhachakutih.
He's holding out on us.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás kunthítiv,
sáruk úhyiivtih "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Then they heard him, he was shouting downhill, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
víri kún siit kích uksahárahitih.
There only mice were squeaking.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vúrava kári úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
He was still shouting like that, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
víri máruk pootrâatih.
He looked uphill.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás pamuhrôoha úhyiv "
káan pátha áamtih.
And his wife shouted, "Eat alone there!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
vaa kúth kin'áhachakutih."
For that purpose you held out on us."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
káruma yáan u'áhachakvunaatih.
The truth was that he had just been holding out on them.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kári vúra úhyiivtih.
He was still shouting.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás poopáhariithvunaa pamuhrooha'îin kunipêer "
yaxéek iim vaa kích ikupítiheesh.
And when he caught up with them, his wife told him, "You're going to be doing nothing but this.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
saamvárook aratváraf kích i'áamtiheesh.
You'll be eating nothing but mud in the creeksSource: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúna nuu yaas'arará'uuthkam kích nu'irukúunpiithvutiheesh."
But we will be sitting around only in front of rich people."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
saamvaróotiim aratváraf u'áamtih.
He eats mud on the edge of creeks.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
pamuhrôoha káru pamutúnviiv patuvuhvúhinaahaak yaas'arará'uuthkam kunchivítahitih.
(But) his wife and his children, when there is a deerskin dance, are lined up in front of rich people.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kári xás uxús pamukúntaat
" hûut áta kúth pa'ípun vúra kích tu'avíkvuti patu'ípakahaak."
And (the children's) mother thought, "Why, I wonder, is he carrying only the tail when he returns?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás vúra pu'ikviit-hára,
káruma kúnish úkviit-hitih.
But she didn't sleep, the truth was she sort of slept (in pretense).Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás uxús
" áta úkviit-hitih."
And he thought, "I guess she's asleep."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás pa'ûumukich u'uum,
kári xás uxús
" hûut kúth papukana'aachichhîivriktihara."
Then when he got near, then he thought, "Why aren't they happy to see me?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás úmuusti pamusípaam.
And he looked at his grinding slab.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás upíip
" hûu huhûu,
kúnish nanisípaam tuyuunhítih."
And he said, "hûu huhûu, my grinding slab is sort of crooked."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
koovúra mímyaahti vaa ikupítiheesh,
fátaak á' ikûuntakoovish.
All your life you will be doing that, you will sit on something above.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
víri payaas'ára hûutva tu'íinahaak,
víri payaas'ára kâarim tukúphaak,
vaa kári xás ík ichuuphítiheesh.
However (long) Mankind exists, when Mankind does bad, then you will have to speak.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
hûutva kóo mímyaahti pati'ívahaak púra fâat vúra îin aamtíheeshara.
All your life, when you die, nothing will eat (you).Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
hûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak,
víri yaas'araréethvaaykam nivúrayvutiheesh.
As long as Mankind exists, we will be around in front of rich people.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
víri vaa kuthítiimtiheesh,
pánaa kâarim tá nixus,
peeshviripshúruk poofyúkutihat,
yakún na vaa peeshvírip."
You will hear it, when I feel sad, when (someone) goes around under pine trees, because I am Pine."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás pasárum víri vaa pa'ásip kunvíiktih.
And they weave the baskets of pine roots.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
víri vaa yaas'araréethvaaykam uvúrayvutiheesh.
They will be around in front of rich people.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás pa'áraar poo'îinhiti víriva musúrukam kun'írunaatih.
And the people traveled behind where the falls were.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
káruma á 'iknêechhan u'ípahootih.
The fact was, Duck Hawk was coming back.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
pamu'îin hôoy ník úxaaktih.
There was no sound of his falls.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'ípahootih.
He was coming back like that.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text -
tishravará'iivreer yanéekva pamu'îin uthivnúrutih.
On Etna Mountain he heard his falls thundering (at Katimin).Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
puthivnúrutihara pamu'íin.
His falls weren't thundering.Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
xás uxútih,
" tá natayvárarimka panani'íin."
And he thought, "She's spoiled my falls."Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
víriva kumá'ii kunípeenti
" xúux mukrivruhvánamich."
For that reason they call it "xuux's little rolling-place."Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text -
kári xás siit upakurîihvutih.
Then Mouse was singing.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
" pûu, púra fâat vúra neepítihara."
"No, I didn't say anything."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
yukún yíiv á' utásunihtihanik pa'íin.
You see, the falls were (like) a barrier (reaching) a long ways up.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
púyava póopvaavruk á'iknêechhan tishravará'iivreen uxus, " hûut áta u'íinati panani'íin.
So when Duck Hawk looked down over Etna Mountain, he thought, "I wonder what's wrong with my falls?Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
ôok íp nithítiimtihat póoxaaktih.
Formerly I heard them sounding from here.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
vúra punathítiimtihara."
I can't hear them."Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
víriva kumá'ii vaa káan kích kun'áraarahitihanik pirishkâarim.
For that reason grizzly bears lived only there.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
hínupa vúra uum u'apunkôonaatih, kachakâach uum u'apunkôonaatih.
There she was bewitching them, Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
pakunxútih " kíri nu'áapunma ' hûut kumá’ii pakunyíkihiti' " púyava kári xás kunpíkav xánkiit.
When they thought, "Let's find out why they are sick," then they summoned Bullhead.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
paráamvar u'êethtih.
She was holding a maul (for driving wedges).Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
hínupa uum kachakáach u'apunkôonaatih.
There Blue Jay herself was bewitching them.Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text -
kári xás xanpuchíniishveenach upíip "
naa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih.
And Hummingbird said, "My mouth is too small.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
xanpuchíniishveenach upakurîihvutih.
Hummingbird was singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
xás upítih "
naa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih.
And she said, "My mouth is too small.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
kumá'ii papuna'ûusurutihara.
For that reason I can't take (the disease object) out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
ukachakâachhiti.
She made a noise like a blue jay.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
xás xunyêep upíip "
naa yáas áachip kóo nivíiktih."
And Tan Oak said, "I've just woven it half-way."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
xás upíip "
pûu,
vaa vúra níthxuuneesh,
káruma nik áachip kóo tuvíkahitih.
And she said, "No, I'll wear it this way, (though) the fact is that it's only woven half-way.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
kíri naa vúra kích yaas'arara'îin na'áamti káru tápas neekyâavish."
May Mankind eat me alone and take care of me!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
víri îifuti tá kunívyiihma pakáan kunífeesh,
vúra vaa uthivkêetih.
So sure enough, they arrived where they were going to grow, she accompanied them like that.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
xás xuntápan kunipêer "
hûut iim u'íinati kúth papu'ipthíthaheen pamípxaan."
And they said to Tan Oak Acorn, "What's the matter with you that you didn't finish weaving your cap?"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
xás upíip "
uumkun itheekxarámva kunvíiktih.
And she said, "They wove day and night.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
ayu'âach kanaxúseenti '
kâanimich.
It was because they thought, 'She's poor.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
xás yaas'ara'îin kunipêer "
iim kumá'ii pa'ára u'íinahaak i'áamtiheeshap,
vaa kúth puharíxay xúrihitiheesh.
Then Man told her, "For your sake, when people exist, they will eat you, because of that they will never hunger.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
káruma ník apxanyâamachas tá kunpithxunátiihva,
yaas'arara'îin pu'ithváaftiheeshap."
The fact is, (the others) wear pretty caps, (but) Mankind won't have much use for them.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text -
pahûutva kóo yaas'ára u'íinahaak víri naa vúra kích kaná'aamtiheesh,
káruma apxankêemich paninípxaan."
However long Mankind exists, he will eat only me, (though) the fact is that my cap is a poor cap."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text -
pa'ávansa atahári vúra u'ákunvutih.
The man was always hunting.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
káru uum pa'asiktávaan atahári vúra kunikyáviichvutih,
ávaha kunikyáatih.
And the women were always working, they were gathering food.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
paxuntápan kunífiktih,
kúuk tóo kvíripma,
xás koovúra tu'ífik píshiip.
When they picked acorns, she would run there, and she would pick them all first.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás vúra kâarim ukyáatih.
And she treated her badly.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
áathva ukyáatih.
She made her afraid.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás yánava pa'átimnavak umáhyaanahiti táhpuus.
And he saw fir branches sticking in the burden basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás u'íkihvuti poopvôonfuruk maath póoktaamtih.
And (Bear) was grunting as she came in, as she was carrying a heavy load.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás púxay fâat vúra pítihara.
And he didn't say anything.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
yánava usáanvuti axvaharaxárahsas.
(The boy) saw she was carrying long pieces of pitch-wood.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás pa'avansáxiich vúra uum uxráratih,
kúna vúra u'íchunvuti pooxráratih.
And the boy was crying, but he hid when he cried.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xasík paaxvaharaxárahsas kuvêehkuriheesh yúuxak,
u'ahítiheesh.
You will stick the long pieces of pitch-wood in the sand, they will burn.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
pa'avansáxiich ukpêehvuti ikmaháchraam.
The boy inside the sweathouse was shouting.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
sáruk utfákutih,
yánava paaxvâahar kári vâaramas uvêehriv.
She looked downhill, she saw the pitch still standing long.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás púxay íhivriktihara.
But he did not answer.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás káruk kunítroovutih.
And they looked upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
kúkuum kunpítroovutih.
They looked upriver again.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
pa'avansáxiich vúra tá pukúnish ikviiptíhara,
kóova tóo kfuuyshur.
The boy could hardly run, he was so tired.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás ithyáruk kunitkáratih.
Then they looked across-river.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
yánava káan ára úkriihvutih.
They saw a man fishing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás káruk tuthítiimnoov póoxruunhitih.
Then he heard her growling from upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xákaan vúra kuníkyeehiti poo'áveesh,
áxak vúra upátati paxuun
They both made for him what he was to eat, he ate two (servings of) acorn soup.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxúti pakachakâach
" hûut áta kumá'ii pa'ípat múxuun kích kúnish poopátatih."
And Blue Jay thought, "I wonder why he sort of eats only Doe's acorn soup?"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" tîi kanmáhi hûut áta pookupeekyâahitih."
And she thought, "Let me see how she makes it!"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás kúkuum vúra vaa tóo kuupha,
tutátuyshiprimtih,
xás tóo yvêesh paxuun.
So she did that way again, she swept up, then she poured the acorn soup down.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
púyava xás paaxíich upêer pamútaat,
" úma kachakâach vaa ukupítih,
kachakáach uyveeshrîihvuti paxuun."
So the child told its mother, "Blue Jay is doing that, Blue Jay is pouring the acorn soup down."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
fâat kúth peepakurîihvutih."
Why are you singing?"Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
pakáan kun'axúpruuprihvuti papúufich tóo mtaapha káru tuxahavíkaha.
(The part of the house) where they put in the dressed deer meat was dusty and cobwebby.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás kunítvuutih.
And they looked there.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
u'ihukárahitih veeshura'ípan pakuntâatathunatih."
They're having a puberty dance, they're tossing her around on the ends of their horns."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás vúra nîinamich pooyrúhahiti pamú'aan.
And his string was coiled just small.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
naa ni'aapúnmuti pahóoy."
I know where."Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
víri vaa kúth chishíi fâat vúra vaa uthíramtih.
For that reason Dog can track anything that way.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra imáan káruk tá kunítroovutih.
Again the next day they looked upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
púyava kári tá kun'áraarahiti vúra vaa kaan.
So they kept living there like that.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 -
víri vaa îin pakín'aaxtih.
It was that one that was killing them.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
ii! xás uxnánatihach.
Oh! then he cried piteously.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
yee! xás uxútih,
" hûut áta pánikupheesh."
Well, then he thought, "How ever shall I do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás káan u'íihtih,
u'íihtih.
And there he danced and danced.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 -
xás kunímuusti iv'ávahkam a' poo'íihtih.
And (Lizard) was looked at as he danced, up on the roof.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás uxús papirishkâarim.
" púya íf yâamach poo'iikívtih.
And Grizzly thought, "My, he's really wearing a pretty necklace!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
yuuxmachmahánach vúra vaa u'íihtih.
Lizard was dancing like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás upíip papirishkâarim,
" íf yâamach pee'iikívtih."
And Grizzly said, "You're really wearing a pretty necklace!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás yuuxmachmahánach upiip,
" man vúra naa ninímya pani'iikívtih."
And Lizard said, "Why, I wear my heart as a necklace."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás upiip,
" víri hûut ikupítih,"
pirishkâarim,
" íf tá nitápkuup."
And Grizzly said, "How do you do it? I really like it!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás upiip
" víri hûut ikupa'eethríshukvahiti pamímyah."
And she said, "How do you take out your heart?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
poopárihrishuk víri vaa yuuxmachmahánach iv'ávahkam poo'íihtih,
uthívtaaptih.
When (Lizard) came out, Lizard danced on the roof, he did a war dance.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
víri vaa kích upíti poo'íihtih,
" shakatíiyu'inaa híyoo.
He said only this as he danced, "shakatíiyu'inaa híyoo.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
káruma u'iikívtih,
yiipahvuf'ímyah.
The fact was, he was wearing a necklace of wood, a heart of rotten fir roots.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
papirishkâarim múmya tóo thyúruripaa,
tufúhish,
payuuxmachmahánnach upíkshaayvutih,
uum áhup u'iikívtih,
yiipahvuf'ímyah.
He pulled out Grizzly's heart, (Grizzly) believed it when Lizard lied, (Lizard) was wearing a necklace of wood, a heart of rotten fir roots.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás kâanimich kunkupa'áraarahitih.
But they lived poorly.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
káan ník pa'ávansa u'ákunvuti káru u'ahavishkâavutih.
The man would hunt and fish there.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
vúra kunpíychaaktih.
He had bad luck.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
vúra uum puharíxay yav kupa'áraarahitihap.
They never lived well.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
kusrípan uum vúra itíhaan uvunayvîichvutih.
Madrone was always wandering around idly.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
káruk u'árihroonatih.
He kept going upriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
xás pa'ifápiit kôothkam utkáratih.
And he saw the girl upriver across-stream.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
umahunâanatih.
She saw him coming.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
púra fâat ifkírahitihara."
Nothing was paid to legitimize her."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
yúruk utrûuputih.
She looked downriver.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
yáan vúra úkxurarahitih.
It was just evening.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
ithyáruk u'uhyanárahitih.
There was talking across-stream.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
upíip
" naa nixútih tá kanapápivaruk.
He said, "I think they're coming to look for me."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
vúrava ithyáruk u'uhyanárahitih.
There was talking across-stream.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
vaa vúra payêem kumáheesh,
u'úuntih.
You will see it that way now, it is peeling.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
kári xás patá kunpíkyaar pakuntáxraati kári xás asmáax "
tîi kan'ífiki pataxratêep."
And when they finished attaching arrowheads, then Towhee thought, "Let me pick up the scraps".Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text -
kári xás utáxraatih.
Then he attached arrowheads.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text -
póomuusti pootáxraati pa'áak utkírih.
When he looked at his arrowhead-attaching, he looked into the fire.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text -
koovúra pakeemishatunvêechas kunpiip, " xâatik yíchaach nu'êerahiti."
All the little wild animals said, "Let's store our food together."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " akâay uum páxuus êethtiheeshan."
And they said, "Who will take care of it?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
kári xás upíip êeth, " naa ník xuus ni'êethtiheesh."
And Slug said, "I'll take care of it."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
púyava ichámahich kúuk kunchúnvavuti.
Then they sneaked up to it one by one.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
chavúra kun'áapunma, hínupa êeth, hínupa uxúti, " tá taay, kíri pácheech ni'av."
Finally they found out, there it was Slug, there he thought, "There's a lot, let me eat it by myself!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii pa'áathva ukyáavunaati.
That's why he scared them.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
kári xás kunipêer, " mímyaahti, hûutva kóo mímyaahti vúra iim fátaak asasúruk vaa káan i'ifchíkinkutiheesh.
And they told him, "In your life, in your whole life you will be sticking to the bottom of a rock there someplace.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
purafâat vúra káru kupítiheeshara."
You won't be doing anything, either."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
apsunmúnukich ukitaxríharahitih.
Western Yellow-Bellied Racer (a snake) was being unfaithful to his wife.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
ith'aranihrôoha xákaan kun'ásimtih.
He was sleeping with another's wife.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
vúra púra húun kupítihara.
(It was as if) she was doing no harm.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
káruma uum ukitaxríharahitih.
(But) the fact was, she was being unfaithful.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa vúra uum pu'aapúnmutihara.
And the man (her husband) didn't know.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás "
ii!"
xás upiip, "
vúra ník pukín'aapunmeeshap,
panukitaxríharahitih."
Then (hearing someone coming) he said, "Oh, they mustn't know that we're being unfaithful!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
xás kári "
ee!"
kári xás kunpiip, "
uum apsunmúnukich tukitaxríharahitih."
And (people) said, "Oh, Racer is being unfaithful!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
tá kun'áapunma pookitaxríharahitih.
They found out that he was being unfaithful.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás apsunmúnukich upiip, "
payaas'ára u'iiníshrihaak,
víri pa'asiktávaan vaa ukupítihaak,
ukitaxríharahitihaak,
xáat káru uxúti '
vúra pu'aapúnmeeshap,'
víri vaa vúra kun'áapunmeesh."
Then Racer said, "When Mankind comes into existence, when a woman does this, when she is unfaithful, even though she thinks they won't find out, they will find out like this."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
káan yáan'iiftihansa kun'áraarahiti tipahêeras.
Young men were living there, brothers.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás pakunikyáavunaati kun'ífikvunaatih.
And when the women gathered (food), they picked up (acorns).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava yáan ník vúra hôoyva usúpaahitiheesh.
Then it was just about to be dawn someplace.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
víri vaa ukupitih,
tusaríshriihva pakóo kuma'ávaha.
She was doing this, she was bringing in all kinds of food.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
hôoyva má' poomkaanvúrayvutih.
She was gathering food (from bushes, such as berries) somewhere in the mountains.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava uum pa'asiktávaansa yáas kunívyiihshiprimtih,
máh'iit.
Then the women started out, in the morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kunipíti pa'asiktávaansa, " púya hûut kumá'ii peekxáram xás uvaaramôotih."
And the women said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás púyava kumamáh'iit xás kúkuum tu'ípak vúra uum taay poo'átivutih póomkaanvuti pakóo kuma'ávaha.
And one morning she came back again, she was carrying a lot in her burden basket, since she had gathered all kinds of food.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kunpiip,
" púya hûut kúth peekxáram uvaaramôotih."
And (the women) said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii pavaa ukupítih,
ikxáram xás póomkaanvutih.
That's why she did that, she gathered food in the evening.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
púyava hínu páy uum vírusur,
víri vaa kumá'ii pátaay úmkaanvutih.
So there she was a bear, that's why she gathered (so) much.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text -
xás kuníhyiivti hôoyva.
And there was a shout somewhere.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
vúra vaa u'áhootih.
He was traveling like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
xás upítih, "
nakûushi."
And (the person) said, "Copulate with me!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
ithyarukpíhriiv kunihyûunishtih,
upêentih, "
nakûushi."
Across-the-Water Widower was shouted at, (the person) said to him, "Copulate with me!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
xás kári uxútih, "
yee!
fâat yáxa.
And he thought, "Well, look! What is it?Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
fâat kumá'ii paneehyûunishtih."
Why is she shouting at me?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
xás uxútih, "
íf kúkuum tá nakúha."
And he thought, "It really hurts me again!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
púyava payêem paakráa vaa pa'úuth uxyakâanvutih.
So now the eels are that which he threw out into the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
hínupa chantirih'îin sú' patá kunvôonkurih,
vaa kúth pookpaksúrooti pamúsiish.
There it was Tick that crawled into him, that's why he cut off his penis.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
koovúra kun'áraarahiti,
taayvávan vúra.
Everyone was (there), lots of people.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Crane" (WB_KL-42) | read full text -
pamu'urútvaap poo'iithvúti á' vúra.
He was carrying his dip-net frame up (in the air).Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text -
xás á' iktít vaa poo'átivutih.
And he was carrying acorn-drying racks in a burden basket, (piled) up (in the air).Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text -
púyava uum túus payêem vúra u'ípakvutih, tupímnaaniharuk.
So now Mockingbird always returns, he comes to spend the summer.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text -
xás kunipéer, "
púya íf yâamach peepâanvutih.
And they said to (Horsefly), "My, your face is painted pretty!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
fâat kôok peepâanvuti iim."
What did you paint it with?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
víri vaa káan tá nimáh panipâanvutih."
There I found what I am painting it with."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
púyava kunípeentih, "
hôoy iim imáahtih peepâanvutih."
So they said to him, "How do you find what you paint your face with?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
víri vaa poopâanvuti pa'arará'aax.
Human blood is what he painted his face with.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
xás araramvanyupsítanach uxus, "
xáyfaat vaa nipiip, "
tóo piip, "
ípahak kích panimáahti pá'aax."
and Horsefly thought, "Let me not say it"; he said, "I find the blood only in trees."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text -
aah uum úpaanik"
púra fâat vúra îin na'íshiptiheeshara."
Fire once said, "Nothing can put me out."Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
kári xás pirishkâarim upiip, "
naa îin nu'íshiptiheesh."
Then Grizzly Bear said, "I can put you out."Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
víri vaa kumá'ii payêem íshaha,
xás vúra kumá'ii úmsiipti aah.
For that reason it's water now, that's why it puts out fire.Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
káru vaa kumá'ii koovúra kumakeemishatunvêechas kun'áayti aah.
And that's why all the little wild animals are afraid of fire.Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
víri vaa káan uum vúra kun'ûupvunaati tayiith.
(Ground squirrels) were digging brodiaea roots there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
máruk tá kunítraatih.
They looked uphill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
púyava kunímuustih.
So they looked at him.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
tá kuntápkuup pakunímuustih, u'íihtih.
They liked him as they watched him, he was dancing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
púyava kun'áraarahitih, kunímuusti axchaytunvêechas, mukúnuuthkam tupíhivriin.
So they sat, the little ground squirrels watched him, he danced back and forth in front of themSource: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
xás kúkuum kunítraatih, kúkuum tu'íhithun.
And again they looked uphill, he was dancing down again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
kári xás víri vaa tupuxíchkaanva poo'íihtih, kûufan 'an 'an
'an."
And there he was exerting himself as he danced, (singing) "kûufan 'an 'an 'an."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
kári xás pa'áraar vaa yáanchiip táay kun'áraarahitih.
And the next year there were a lot of people living.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
puvaahyâach kupítihat.
(But) they didn't do it (hold the world-renewal) the same way.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
yáanchiipkam kumatêeshich kun'áraarahitih pa'áraaras.
The next year there were more people.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
tá nipitkúrihti peeshkêesh usaamvárak.
I look again into the water as the river flows down from upstream.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
púyava koovúra tá kun'áraarahitih,
kixáhaan káru vúra imúsaan,
káru ikyávaan,
káru koopitxaaríhvaan.
And they were all (there), brush-burners and assistant priest, and priestesses, and priest's companions.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
púyava koovúra uum púxay vúra yíthaxay kuhítihara pa'áraaras,
koovúra vúra yav,
púxay axvahkánxay.
And none of all the people was sick, they were all well, they weren't sick.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
vaa páy hínupa uum pookupítiheesh."
And they said, "That's the way (Mankind) will do it."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
payaas'ára u'iiníshrihaak víri vaa pakunkupítiheesh.
When Mankind comes into existence, they will do like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
kári xás xára vúra yâamach kunkupá'iinahitih.
And they lived nicely for a long time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás chavúra upvápiroopithvutih peethívthaaneen.
Finally he went around the world.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
patupíkyaar poochiihvîichvuti kári xás peekxuraráhaan uxús "
ii!
tá nasáyriihva.
When she finished singing her love song, then Evening Star thought, "Oh, I'm lonesome!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kunthítiimti "
vaa káan kun'ûupvunaatih,
tayiith."
They heard that (people) were digging brodiaea roots there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víri pootúraayva,
púra fátaak vúra yâahitihara,
pakun'ûupvunaatih peekxariya'ifápiitsha.
When she looked around, she couldn't fit in anyplace where the spirit girls were digging roots.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víri pooksahárahitih,
kuntákaamtih,
pa'asiktávaan,
pakâanimich,
poo'ûupvutih.
So they laughed, they ridiculed her, the woman, the poor one, as she dug roots.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víriva yiimúsich vúra poo'ûupvutih.
She dug roots a little ways away.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víri peekxariya'ifápiitsha tá kunpiip, "
íf uxútih '
nitâatrupraveesh.'"
The spirit girls said, "She really thinks she's going to dig up something!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víri chavúra tapipshítaani kári xás kunpiip,
peekxariya'ifápiitshas, "
yáxa,
hûut upítih."
Finally after a while the spirit girls said, "Look, what is she saying?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
yánava upakurîihvutih,
pakâanimich.
They saw the poor one was singing.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
yánava upítih, "
yôotva,
nini'ávan tá nitâatruprav."
They saw her say, "Hurray, I've dug up my husband!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
víriva vúra ávan uthiinátiheesh.
She will have a husband.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
paninipákuri u'aapúnmahaak,
víriva vúra ávan uthiinátiheesh,
xáat asiktavankéem."
If she knows my song, she will have a husband, (though) she may be a homely woman."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
púxay iruvôonuptihara.
They (the girls) wouldn't come out of the house.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam peeshkêesh upuhyîimahitih.
The river was at the high-water mark.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
yánava uchívchaaksurahitih.
He saw the door was open.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
naa ni'áhootih."
I'm traveling."Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
káruk útroovutih.
He looked upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
kun'áharamutih.
They were chasing him.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
víri vaa kunkupitih,
pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan.
They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
kári xás páy nanu'ávahkam u'ípahoo,
páy nanu'ávahkam ukâakamhitih.
So he went on to the sky, he was a little ways upriver in the sky.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás yúruk utrûuputih.
And he looked downriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
vúrava kun'áharamutih.
They were chasing him that way.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
áxak kunifyúkuti asiktávaansa kôokaninay.
Two women wandered around everywhere.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
kunmáahti peekxaréeyav tu'íifship.
They would see where a spirit had grown up (i.e., was living).Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
kóomahich ník kóovan tá kun'áraarahitih.
They would stay with him a little while.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
púyava kóomahich ník kóovan tá kun'áraarahitih.
So they would stay with him a little while.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
sâam kunitfákutih.
They looked downhill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás uxúti ikmahachram'íshiip veekxaréeyav,
uxús "
naa vúra naní'iish
1 pu'axvíthinheeshara."
And Sacred Sweathouse Spirit thought, he thought, "My body will not become unclean."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
uum vúra hitíhaan vaa kích ukupitih,
úkvaatih.
He did only this all the time, he gathered sweathouse wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
imáan úkvaatih.
The next day (also) he gathered sweathouse wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
ásxaay upíychaakiritih.
He spoiled his luck with green wood.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
chavúra teepshítaanivanihich xás pamukrívraam upímuustih.
Finally after a little while he looked at his living house.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
hûut áta tá kunkúupha."
And he thought, "I wonder what they're doing?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
húuk áta tá kun'uum,
paninihrôohas."
And he thought, "I wonder where my wives have gone?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
púxay vúraxay aapúnmutihara.
(But) it didn't know.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
káan kúna pamukun'aktinakírak vaa káru vúra pu'aapúnmutihara.
The grasping stones there (at the doorway) didn't know either.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
chavúra itaharéekxaram tá pu'ikviit-hítihara páxuus u'íruvooti pamuhrôohas.
Finally he didn't sleep for ten nights, as he thought about his wives.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
vúra kích ukupitih,
xuus u'íruvooti.
He did only (this), he thought about them.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
chavúra teepshítaanivanihich axmáy vaa ukúupha,
sâam utfákutih.
Finally after a while suddenly he did this, he looked downhill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás uxúti "
ikxaréeyav u'árihraa."
And he thought, "A spirit is coming up."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
yánava uum káru vaa ukupiti pá'uum ukupiti ikmahachram'íshiip veekxaréeyav.
He saw that (the other person) was also doing what Sacred Sweathouse Spirit was doing.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víkapu uskúruhti.
(Namely:) He was carrying a quiver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
yánava uum káru vaa ukupitih,
víkapu uskúruhtih.
He saw he was doing that too, he was carrying a quiver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás kunípeenti ikmahachram'íshiip veekxaréeyav "
hûut kích ixútih."
And (the person) said to Sacred Sweathouse Spirit, "How are you feeling?"Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
vúra kâarim panixútih.
And he said, "I'm feeling bad.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
ník vaa nixúti '
tée kúupha.'"
And (the other) said, "I know you are doing that."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
naa ni'aapúnmuti '
pamihrôovas hôoy kun'iin.'"
And he said, "I know where your wives are."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
naa vaa nikupítih.
And he said, "I do this.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen nipthivrúhiroopithvutih.
I float around and around this world.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
víri kôokaninay ni'aapúnmuti peekxaréeyav tu'íifship.
I know everyplace that a spirit has grown up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
máh'iit payáan tusúpaahiti vaa kári kunvíiktih.
In the morning, when it is just dawn, they are weaving.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
îikam tá kunpirukûurish,
yukún vaa kunkupitih,
fúrax mukunpikshipíkmath.
They sit down again outdoors; you see, they do this; their sun-shades are of woodpecker heads.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás yûuth utrûuputih.
Then he looked down across.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás poofúmtaapsur víri yûuth pootrûuputih,
xánahich axmáy vaa ukuupha,
pamukunfuraxpikshipíkmath axmáy u'áapuchur.
And when he blew, as he looked down across, in a little while suddenly they did this, (the women's) woodpecker-head sun-shades suddenly collapsed.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
pufíchtaay kuniykáratih,
itráhyar mutúnviiv.
His ten sons were killing lots of deer.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
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 -
fâat kúnish kun'ixáxanaatih.
They were sort of crying somewhat.Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text -
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 -
kári xás paniinamichtâapas iknûumin veekxaréeyav pamú'arama vaa vúra ukupa'ífaha,
pamútiik u'ákchaaktih,
xákarari pamútiik u'ákchaaktih.
And Burrill Peak Spirit's littlest child grew up this way, his hands were closed, both his hands were closed.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás kunpúuxhitih.
And they were covered with scabs.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás uthítiimtih,
pavuraakirasúruk ikrêen paniinamichtâapas.
And the littlest one, sitting underneath the ladder, heard it.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
víri pamu'ífuni fúrax kích utávahitih.
His hair was decorated on the ends with nothing but woodpecker heads.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
víri pakunpûusur fúrax kích utávahiti pamu'ifunih'ípan.
When they took it off, the ends of (the dog's) hair were decorated with nothing but woodpecker scalps.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás vaa upiip, "
iimkun úm kúth ni'íiftih,
iimkun úm kumá'ii ni'íiftih.
And he said, "Am I growing up for you people, am I growing up for your sake?Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
naa káru vúra káan ni'íiftih."
I am growing up here too!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
koovúra vaa upítih, "
iimkun úm kúth ni'íiftih.
Every time, (kunâach'aa) said, "Am I growing up for you people?Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
naa káru vúra káan ni'íiftih,
kunâach'aa."
I am growing up here too, (I,) kunâach'aa!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
kári xás koovúra papinishtunvêechas káru koovúra pa'ípaha kunihyûunishtih, "
kunâach'aa,
puxîichi."
And all the little plants and all the trees shouted to him, "Go to it, kunâach'aa!"Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text -
vaa kumá'ii payêem áraar kun'áraarahitih.
That's why people are living now.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
hôoy áta kuniyaarámootih,
patóo kxurarahaak."
And he thought, "I wonder where they always go when evening comes?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás kunpikyáasiiprinatih.
They were getting ready (to go).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúrava kun'áhootih.
They were walking that way.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúrava u'áharamunaatih.
He was following them that way.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás yúruk utrûuputih.
Then he looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás úmuustih.
And he looked at them.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás yáas kunvitshúrootih.
And then they rowed away.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yúruk utrûuputih.
He looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúrava kun'áchakruputih,
pamukúnpaah.
Their boats were floating in a bunch like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yúruk utrûuputih.
He looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan kun'áchakutih.
They were floating in a bunch there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás utrûuputih,
úmuustih.
And he looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúra xára tá kun'áchakutih.
They floated in a bunch for a long time.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás utrûuputih.
Then he looked downriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
pavúra kóo kuma'íthivishrih,
pakunvuhvúhinaatih,
káru pakoo.
There was all kind of celebration as they did the deerskin dance and all.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
kun'átivutih.
They were carrying burden baskets.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás vaa kích kunipítih, "
pukíntaapxuveeshara."
And they said only that, "We won't capsize."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
pamukúntiik ishvít kóo aas kun'áakkurihtih,
pakun'axaychákishrihtih.
They put their hands halfway into the water, when they took hold of (the gunwales).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
kunpakúriihvutih, "
xáyfaat nutáapxuv."
They were singing, "Let us not capsize!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káruk kunítroovutih.
And they looked upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás kunítroovutih.
Then they looked upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yáas úpviitmutih,
uum káru.
Then he paddled back there too.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás pakóo kuma'arará'uup,
pakun'ativútiihva,
pakóo kuméemyaat.
And what they were carrying was every kind of Indian treasure, every kind of fur.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
hínu páy kunimuskíranik,
poopvakirîihvutih.
They had admired him, when he was dancing in front.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás mah'íitnihach uum vúrava ukvatankôotih.
So he always went early in the morning to gather sweathouse wood.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúra vaa úmuustih.
He was looking at them.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
axíich tóo thiinátih.
She had a child.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káru mit kunvîihitihat,
pámit umusankôotihat.
And they had disliked him, when he had gone to see her.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
xás póomuustih,
pakéevniikich vúra tupíkshar,
káru pa'ifápiit vúra tupíkshar.
And as he watched, the old woman just melted, and the girl just melted.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
vúra vaa úmuustihvunaatih.
He was looking at them like that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
asiktávaan mukeechíkyav xákaan vúra puxích puráan tá kuntápkuuputih.
A woman and her sweetheart loved each other very much.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan pamutipáhiivshas kunvîihirimkutih.
But the woman's brothers disliked (the man).Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vaa ík káan i'uumêesh pámita nu'ínoohvootihirak pa'aasívak.
You must go there where we used to stay, in the cave.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vúra vaa kun'áharamuti pa'atipimáamvaan.
They were following the buzzard that way.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás kunipéer, "
mâa kâam vuhvúha ukyáati pakúth ivúrayvutih.
And (the old woman) said, "Look, the one you are wandering around for is making a deerskin dance uphill.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
ôok uum pu'áhootihara pa'ípihitihan.
People with bones (i.e., live people) don't come here.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
yukún vaa kunípeenti yumaará'aama achvuun.
You see, they call dog salmon "dead-man's salmon."Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás kinipéer, "
pa'áraar tu'ívahaak,
vaa ík apmántiim kuyvúruktiheesh.
And they were told, "When a person dies, you must rub this on his lips.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
púyava pakun'ípak ôok kumeethívthaaneen vaa uum pakúphaanhanik póokupiti áraar utâanaxihitihirak.
So when they returned to this world, they are the ones who did as it is done in the land of the dead.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
víri chavúra pu'áraar iimtihara,
chavúra peethívthaaneen upáxyar pa'áraar.
Finally no person died, finally the people filled up the earth.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vaa kári xás vúra kun'íimti poofíipha pa'áama.
Then when the salmon was all gone, they died.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
vúra pu'ikvarishtihap.
People didn't buy (baskets) from her.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
káan xás mah'íitnihach upapivankôoti pamusárum ishkêeshak hôoy kích tóo pthívruuhruprav.
Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
víri îifuti uthívruuhtih.
Sure enough, they were floating (there).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
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 -
káru vaa káan ávansa upakxuyvîichvuti pakáan tu'iipkúrih.
And a man is looking for good luck there when he dives in there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
vúra tá pura fâat thiinátihara,
vúra tá kunchifíchfip.
He didn’t have anything, they beat him completely.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
pa'ára papivankôotihan kéevniikich.
The person who was going to look for him was an old woman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
uum pa'áraar pápimtihan ithahárinay vúra pumaahtíhap.
She, the person looking for him, didn’t see him for a year.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
árus u'átivutih.
She carried a seed-basket.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
pamú'iish uum tá púfaat,
utheekvárahitih.
His flesh was all gone by now, he was like a skeleton.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
víriva ithahárinay pukínmaahtihap.
People didn’t see him for a year.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
xás uyvúrukti sakankooréekpat.
And she rubbed deer’s leg-bone marrow on him.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
vaa u'íifti pamú'iish.
Thus his flesh grew.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
koovura'îin patá kun'áakup,
" chí nuthtîiti!"
Everybody challenged him, "Let’s gamble!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
ansáfriik ávansa uphikirîihvutih.
A man was sweating himself at Weitchpec.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
yánava ápsuun,
úmuustih,
úmuustih.
He saw it was a snake, he watched it and watched it.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
úmuustih pa'ávansa.
She looked at the man.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
xáyfaat ímuustih."
Don't look at her!"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
upiip, "
athithxuntápan númkaanvutih.
She said, "We're gathering hazelnuts.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
avansáxiich vúra uum hitíhaan uxráratih.
A little boy was always crying.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
káan uxráratih.
He was crying there.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
vúra vaa kári uxnánatihach.
He was still crying like that a little.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
axmáy xás ukôoha pooxráratih.
And suddenly he stopped crying.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
káan ník úhyiivtih.
She shouted some there.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
yáas uxúti
" naa nixúti
' tá kun'ípas.'"
Then she thought, "I think he's been taken."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
" vaa uum vúra punaturâayvutiheeshara."
"That way I won't be looking for him."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
îikam ukunihîichvutih.
He was outside shooting in play.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
xás pámita îin kunsíitvat úpeenti
" xáyfaat mâam kúuk ikuníhivraa."
And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
xás pa'avansáxiich uxús
" fâat áta kúth pávaa kanéepeentih."
And the boy thought, "I wonder why I was told that?"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
kunípeenti
" axicha'êechkeepuhich yáxa íkrii."
He was told, "Look, you are a kidnapped child!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
" púya mâam kanéepeentih,
axicha'êechkeepuhich níkrii."
"Say, I'm told uphill, I'm a kidnapped child!"Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
peepárihrupahaak yúruk peepitvâavnukahaak imáheesh úmkuufhitih.
When you go back downriver, as you look down over, you will see there is smoke.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
víri îifuti poopitrûuputi víri kún yúruk úmkuufhitih.
Sure enough, when he looked downriver, there downriver was the smoke.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
ayu'âach kanéepeentih,
axicha'êechkeepuhich níkrii."
It was because it was told to me, I'm a kidnapped child."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
xás u'árihrupuk,
vaa kích upíti
" húm íta,
húm íta,
húm íta."
Then she ran outdoors, she said only, "húm íta, húm íta, húm íta." (No meaning.)Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
itaharahárinay tutaxváhahitih.
They had been sealed up for ten years.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
uum vúra ataháriish vúra kunmáahtih,
tá kunpiip, "
u'apurúvaanhitih."
People were always seeing (a certain woman), they said, "She's a devil."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
púyava vúra vaa uthiináti papáthraam,
xás kôokinay vúra u'ápiv,
akâay áta mu'ífunih.
So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
vúra pumaahtíhara.
He didn't find her.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, "
uum mâasuum uvíiktih pahípriik.
And people said, "She's weaving in the pepperwood grove, up the creek.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
vaa káan uvikankôotih.
She always goes there to weave."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
yánava káan uvíiktih
He saw her weaving there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
pamúpxaan ápapvari xás póothxunatih.
And she was wearing her cap over on one side.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
táay vúra kunpâakuhinaati má' pâakuhiv.
A lot of people were picking acorns in the mountains, in acorn season.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | 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 -
hínupa vaa káan utnûuprihti yítha pa'apurúvaan.
There was a certain devil peeking through there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
imáan umáh,
utháaniv,
vúra kári úksaahtih,
káruma tu'ívaheen.
The next day (the first devil) saw him, he was lying (there), he was still laughing; the fact was, he had died.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
áxak kustáaras kunpâakuhitih.
Two sisters were picking acorns.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
kári xás uxus,
" tá ná'aathva kip nusúmahtih."
And (the one who remained) thought, "I'm afraid; we've been hearing some noise."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
" kíri kunxús
' taayvávan panu'áraarahitih.'"
"Let them think we are a lot of people!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
káruma kári pa'áraaras kári pa'áraaras kári kun'áathvunaatih.
(But) the fact was, the Indians were still afraid.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text -
kinípeenti "
kêemish pa'apxantínihichas."
They were told that the white men were devils.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text -
kunxúti "
as."
(The Indians) thought they were rocks.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text -
yítha áraar apxantínihich ukyavíichvihitihanik.
A certain Indian once worked for a white man.Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
xás uthvuyâanati ípa kóo kunípeerat "
ikvan."
And he was naming all that they had told him to buy.Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
xás poo'árihroov kích poopíti "
rúup,
rúup."
So as he went upriver he was saying nothing but "rúup, rúup."Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text -
hâari pa'êem kunpíkshaayvutih.
Sometimes the Indian doctors practice deception.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
xás úmuustihanik pa'êem pa'ára upatumkôotih.
And she watched as the doctor sucked a person.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
xás pa'êem sichakvutvaratíri usíchakvutvutih.
And the doctor was wearing a wide belt around her waist.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
hínupa páy uum vaa ukupavêenahiti atahári.
There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
upikshayvûunishvunaati pa'áraar.
She was deceiving the Indians.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
káruma itráhyar káru itrôop úthvuuyti pakúth ára upatumkôotih.
The fact was, she charged fifteen (dollars) for sucking a person.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text -
píshiich pakun'áraarahiti pa'asiktávaansas ápkaas kun'íshumtih.
As they lived at first, the women scraped iris leaves.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás pa'asiktávaansas kuníhviithtih.
And the women cleaned (the fish).Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
pa'áama kun'áamti káru vúra pa'éekoons.
They ate the salmon and the acorns.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
vaa púufich kunkupeeykárahiti pa'áraar,
kuntátapvutih.
The Indians killed deer that way, they trapped them.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
vaa kunkupeeykárahiti papúufich.
They killed the deer that way.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás koovúra vaa kun'áamtih,
papúufich káru pa'áama káru pa'éekoons káru pápiish.
And they ate all that, the deer and the salmon and the acorns and the soaked acorns.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
akráa káru kun'áamtih.
They ate eels too.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás kun'áamtih.
Then they ate it.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
pa'áraar uum pa'áama ukupéekriihvahitih.
The Indians fished for salmon in a certain way.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
táaskar kunikyâaratih.
It was made of poles.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
ishkêeshak kunvêehkurihvuti patáaskar.
The poles were stuck into the river.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
xás pamukun'ikríhar uum taskanatunvêechas ukyâarahitih.
And their fish-trap was made of little poles.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
xás vaa káan pa'urípi unhíkahitih.
And the net was tied on there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
púyava pakuníkriihvuti vaa káan kunkûuntako peemvirak'ípan.
So when they fished, they sat there on top of the fishing platform.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
pa'urípi uum vâaram ukyâahitih.
The net was made long.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
víriva pa'áama kunkupeeykárahitih.
They caught the salmon that way.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
kunipíti "
uum pupiykáreeshap pakáan asiktávaan uvúrayvutihaak."
People said they wouldn't catch (anything) if a woman was around there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
asiktávaan uum pukáan vúrayvutihara peemvírak.
A woman didn't go around the fishing platform there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
káru pu'aamtíhap káru pishpíshih.
And (the fishermen) didn't eat honey either.Source: Julia Starritt, "Salmon Fishing" (WB_KL-69) | read full text -
papúufich kun'ákunvunaati víriva ánav tá kuníkyam máh'iit.
When they hunted deer, they made medicine in the morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
papi'êep kunkupa'ákunvutihanik kun'ákeekvutih.
They carried bows when they hunted, long ago.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
káru pavimtáap kuntakváratih.
And they carried the arrows across their chest.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
káru káakum mah'íitnihach kuntátapvunaati.
And some men were trapping early in the morning.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
koovúra uyvúrukahiti papufich'ánav.
They rubbed deer medicine on everything.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
víriva máh'iit patá kuntátapvanva víri vaa ukupítih pamukunchíshiih,
víri koovúra pamukunchíshii ánav tá kuniyvúrukva.
When they went trapping in the morning, their dogs would do this, they would all be rubbed with medicine.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
víriva ukupitih,
patupaxfúroo papúufich.
That's what they did, when they snared deer.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text -
víriva púra fátaak vôonupuktihara.
(The bear) He didn’t come out anywhere.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava íshyaav kunkupeeykárahitih.
They killed it that way in the winter.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
púyava vaa íshyaav kun'áamtih.
And in the winter they ate it.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
íshyuux kuniyvúnkurihvuti pachishih'íin.
The dogs used to herd elk in (to ravines).Source: Nettie Ruben, "Elk Hunting" (WB_KL-72) | read full text -
paxuntápan uum kun'ífiktih,
ípahak kun'íiftih.
They picked the acorns, they grew on trees.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
xás patóo mtúpahaak paxuntápan kunivrarasúrootih.
And when they were ripe, the acorns fell off.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
púyava xás kun'ífiktih.
Then they picked them.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
xás kári peekpúr uum múrukak kuniyváyraamnihvutih.
Then they poured the flour into a tray-basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
xás íshaha kuniyváykooti kacha'îimich.
And they poured water onto it slowly.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
púyava pa'íshaha tuvunfípahaak kúkuum tá kuniptákootih.
When the water flowed all away, they added it again.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
xás ásip tá kun'akíthraamnihvutih.
And they put it into soup baskets.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
xás kári íshaha tá kuníyvaayramni pakóo kunxúti "
u'úumeesh."
And they poured in water, as much as they thought would go.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
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 -
afrúus ásip kunmáhyaanatih.
They put the mildewed acorns in a bowl-basket.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text -
yáas úspaastih,
tu'akíthkith.
Then (the meal) was leached, they stirred it up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text -
koovúra imváram u'ifkóohiti pa'ásip.
And the plate-baskets (for the salmon) fit into the soup baskets.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text -
sikíhnuuk mûuk tá kunpátatih.
They ate soup with spoons.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full text -
pápiish kunikyâati uum xás tá kunpíishha.
When they made píish, they soaked acorns.Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text -
peekmaháchraam uum yíth ukupeekyâahiti káru peekrívraam uum vúra yith.
The sweathouse was made one way and the living-house another.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
peekmaháchraam uum sú' u'íripkurihahitih.
The sweathouse was dug down into the ground.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás iv'ávahkam vúra ivharatírihshas mûuk uyururâanahitih.
And the roof was put up with wide boards.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás ithváaykam pachivchaksurúraam vúra ipshûunkinich pakáan kunvóonkurihvutih.
And in front, there was a low door, where they went in.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás vuráakir u'íihya, xás vaa káan pakunvóoruniihvutih.
And a ladder stood (there), and they crawled down (into the house) on that.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
pavuráakir uum vúra ípaha pookyâarahitih.
The ladder was made of a tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás iinâak pamu'îirish uum ás upathrívahitih.
And inside, their floor was covered with rocks.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás irísh'aachip sú' usúrukurihahitih.
And there was a hole in the middle of the floor.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás vaa káan pá'aah kunikyâatih.
And they made the fire there.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | 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 -
xás patá kunpíkniihvahaak, pá'aah tá kuníkyav, vaa kuníhruuvti tahpus'áptiik.
And when they sweated themselves, they made the fire, they used fir boughs.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweathouse" (WB_KL-76) | read full text -
xás áachip ahíramhitih.
And there was a fireplace in the center.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás pa'iinâak íivhar uthiivárayvahitih.
And on the inside boards were placed around.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás vaa káan kun'áhooti pa'îikam tá kunvôonupukahaak.
And they walked on that when they went outside.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás pa'íivhar uum ipshûunkinichas peekrívraam ukyâarahitih.
And the boards were short that the house was made with.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
peev'ávahkam ivharatírihshas uyaakóohitih.
And broad boards were put on the roof.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás ás uthíivahiti ivíthvaaykam.
And rocks were laid in front of the house.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás ukyâahiti pakáan kuniváxraahmathti pa'áama káru vúra fâat vúra pakuntâarahitih.
And they were made so that they dried fish there and whatever (else) they had.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás âapun vúra uum pootâayhiti pamukun'ásip káru vúra fâat vúra pakuntâarahiti pakunimnísheesh.
And on the floor were their cooking baskets and whatever else they had when they were going to cook.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa vúra kích mukun'ikrívkir utâayhiti.
And only the men's seats were there.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan uumkun vúra âapun pakun'áraarahitih.
The women sat on the ground.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
hâari pufíchvaas upathrívahitih,
víriva káan pa'asiktávaansas kun'áraarahitih.
Sometimes a deerskin blanket was spread, and the women sat on that.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
xás kuníshtaakti hâari pamukit'íin.
And sometimes it was held by its grandmother.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text -
pa'arara'avanséextiivha uum yítha pakuméextiivha úthvuuyti imtháatva.
One game, of the Indian men's games, was called 'the stick game' (i.e., shinny).Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
víriva uum tishrámniik pakuníxtiivhitih.
They played it on a level place.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
papanamnihimthatváram uum vaa káan ukyâasipreehiti paGeorgia mutasa'îikukam,
xás yúruk paxánthiip u'iihyírak u'ípanhitih.
The Orleans stick-game field began there just outside Georgia's (Mrs. Georgia Henry's) fence, and it ended downriver where the black oak stands.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
xás kunsáanvuti áhup,
úthvuuyti imtháatvar káru tákasar.
And they carried sticks, they were called shinny sticks and a 'tossel' (i.e., a double ball).Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
xás patákasar uum ahuptunvêechas,
unhítunvahitih.
And the tossel was little sticks, they were tied together.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
yítha uum pa'ávansa poo'avíkvuti patákasar.
One man carried the tossel.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
apmáan mûuk upáratih.
He bit it with his mouth (i.e., held it between his teeth).Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
púyava hâari vúra pu'ikyívivrathtihara.
Sometimes (the tossel) didn't fall over (the goal line).Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
vaa uum papaaxkívtihan uum peekpihan'íshiip káru peeshnanich'íshiip.
The winners were the strongest and the swiftest.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Shinny Game" (WB_KL-78) | read full text -
apmáan mûuk kunchátnaktih.
They cracked them with their mouths (i.e., with their teeth).Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full text -
pa'arara'êem uum ára upatumkôotih.
The Indian Doctor sucked people.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
xás vaa káan tupátum pakáan pa'arátaanva ukêenatih.
She put her mouth there where the 'pain' (i.e. disease object) was quivering.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
âapun úkrii pávaa ukupitih.
She sat on the floor as she did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
xás tíikan uyuuhrámnih,
xás pa'arataanva'úpas úktaamti tíikan.
And she spat into her hands, and she held the pain-saliva in her hands.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text -
pa'aneekyávaan uum pírish pa'óohruuvtih káru hâari pirish'éepuum.
The sweating doctor used plants and sometimes plant roots.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
púyava xás u'uhyanakôoti papírish.
And he talked to the plants.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
púyava páy uum papirish'ánav kunkupeekyâahitih.
That’s how they made plant medicine.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansas kuníshriimvanaatih.
And the men were target-shooting.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
vúra pa'ávansas uumkun máruk kuníshriimtih.
The men were uphill target shooting.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
xás yáas upâatvutih.
Then he bathed.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
ithéekxurar vúra kunvuhvúhiichvanaatih.
The people did the imitation deerskin dance all evening.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
kunxúti
" xáy peekxariya'áraar úkviit-ha."
They thought, "Let the priest not fall asleep!"Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
hâari vúra xára kuníthtiitvanaatih,
pahûutva kóo ararátaayhaak.
Sometimes they gambled for a long time, however long there were a lot of people.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
yáas ukôohiti pa'ir.
Then the world renewal ended.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
yúruk tóo trûuputih,
peeshkêesh tóo muustih.
He looked downriver, he looked at the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
úuth tóo tkáratih,
peeshkêesh tóo muustih.
He looked out across the water, he looked at the river.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
peeshkêesh tóo muustih,
uvêenatih.
He looked at the river, he prayed.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
nu'asímchaaktih.
We kept our eyes closed.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
púyava yáas níkraamtih paxúrish.
Then I pounded the acorn meats.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
asipárax nu'átivuti káru múruk káru tásvaan káru tarípaan,
káru ikrívkir nu'êethtih.
In burden baskets we carried cooking baskets and tray baskets and soup stirrers and dippers, and we carried a stool.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
víriva patóo thárish peekrívkir sákriiv ukyâati peethívthaaneen.
When he put the stool down on the ground, he was making the world firm.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
káru pu'íshaha kín'iishtihara.
And we didn't drink water.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
xás máh'iit chí nupiyâarameesh,
xás táhpuus nupáthraamutih.
Then in the morning we were going to leave, and we wore our hair bound with fir boughs.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
yáan vúra usúpaahitih.
It was just becoming day.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
koovúra'îin kinímuustih.
Everyone looked at us.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
itroopasúpaa iinâak nu'áraarahiti ikmaháchraam.
We all lived in the sweathouse for five days.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
ikxúrar nupâatvuti ukrámkaam.
In the evening we bathed in (the pond called) ukrámkaam.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
xás panunu'ífunih vúra xávish mûuk nupákootih,
kíri vâaramas u'if,
panunu'ífunih.
And we whipped our hair with syringa, (thinking), "Let our hair grow long!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
sáruk uum kun'íintih,
tá írahiv.
Downhill they were celebrating the world renewal, it was world-renewal time by then.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
upeechkanvichvárahitih.
There was gambling.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
úthvuuyti kah'ínaam.
(The place) is called kah'ínaam (Clear Creek).Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
surukúnvuunup vaa káan aah kunikyâatih kuníshriimtih.
They made a fire there at surukúnvuunup (Sing-Ho Bar), they shot at targets.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pishiichtâapas kuníshriimtih.
They shot at targets first of all.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
imáankam tasáxaak kúmaam kuníshriimtih.
The next day they shot at targets behind tasáxaak.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
koovúra pa'áraar kunivyíhuktih,
kunimúsanva.
All the people came, they came to watch.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
vaa pasiríshkir pumáahtih,
kuníchunvaheen.
They didn't look at the river-bar, they hid.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
xás paafishríhansas kunkúniihvunaa,
taay kuníxraamtih.
And the young men shot arrows, they bet a lot.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
ishrívaansas tá kunxúrihinaa,
yáas kun'áamtih.
The target-shooters got hungry, then they ate.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
nanítaat mít kin'ípeentihat,
" tuyshipnee'ípanich uum saripkêemshas."
My mother used to tell us, "They are bad hazel sticks on the hilltop."Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
vaa mít kári uum nu'ahíshriihvutihat
We used to set fires (to encourage the growth of the brush).Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
púra fâat vúra kinípeentihat
They (the government) didn't say anything to us.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
payêem uum tá koo,
tá púvaa kinkupítihara.
Now that's all over, we can't do that.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
pasárip tá kuníshtuukvunaa,
kun'ipátsiiprinatih.
They plucked the hazel twigs, they broke them with their fingernails.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
payêem uum símsiim mûuk kunvúutvanaatih.
Now they cut them with a knife.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaansas uum kuníshtuukvanaatih.
The women picked them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
vúha mûuk pakunthárufvanaatih.
They peeled them with their teeth.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
asiktávaansas káru vúra ávansas koovúra kunthárufvunaatih.
All the men and women peeled them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
hâari kunvûuksahinaatih.
Sometimes they had a work contest.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
yáas nishuváxraahti imcháxahak.
Then I dried them in the sunshine.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
kun'uumxávxaavtih.
They pulled them up by the roots.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
yáas sárum nu'ûupvutih.
Then we dug pine roots.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
yáas nuthatápaantih.
Then we split them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
yáas nutáxviishtih.
Then we scraped them.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
yáas nukyâasiprivti pavik.
Then we began the weaving.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
ararayáfus uum vúra táfirapu ukyâarahitih.
The Indian dress was made of buckskin.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra kuniyxôorarivahitih.
And they were just wrapped in it.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
xás pamukuntántaav táfirapu ukyâarahitih.
And their apron was made of buckskin.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
xás pamukunyafusayêepsha vúra uum yâamach ukyâahahitih.
And their good dresses were made pretty.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
píshiip panyúrar utaxapkóohitih.
First bear-lily leaves were braided on.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
axyúus ukyâarahiti káru yuxtháran káru sápruuk ukyâarahitih.
It was made with digger-pine nuts and abalone shell and it was made with olivella shells.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
yuxtháran uum tûupichas utapakpákahitih.
The abalone shell was chopped up small.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
pamukun'ápxaan ukyâarahiti sárip káru sárum.
Their hats were made with hazel twigs and pine-roots.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
kunikxúrikarati panyúrar káru ikritápkir káru tíiptiip.
They were decorated with bear-lily leaves and five-finger fern and chain fern.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
xás patíiptiip uum aaxkúnish ukyâahitih.
And the chain fern was made red.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
xás pamukun'ápxaan uum uvíkahiti pasárum mûuk káru papanyúrar káru peekritápkir káru patíiptiip.
And their hats were woven with the pine-roots and the bear-lily leaves and the five-finger fern and the chain fern.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text -
pa'arara'asiktávaan uum ishváak uthúkinhahitih.
The Indian women were tattooed on the chin.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
xás asayátha mûuk pakunikxúriktih.
And they made the design with a sharp stone.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
xás pa'ôok va'áraaras pamukún'aav puthúkinhitihara.
And the Indians here didn't tattoo their faces (above the chin).Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
vúra páy nanuxákarari kích uum vaa kunkupítih.
Only ones outside of our country did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Tattoos" (WB_KL-87) | read full text -
pínishtunvêech kun'ápimtih.
They were looking for plants.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
Ramona uum kêeks ukyâati óok.
Ramona is here making a cake.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Birthday Party" (WB_KL-89) | read full text -
puxích kúnish upáthriihtih, víri puxútihap " kíri nupêer paaxíitichas ' ôok kóova nu'am.'"
It's sort of raining hard, so they don't want to ask the (neighbor's) children to eat here with them.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Birthday Party" (WB_KL-89) | read full text -
naa nixúti " Herbert u'aahkôoti patáhpuus."
I think Herbert is burning fir boughs.Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text -
káruk íp nifyúkutihat ítam.
Earlier today I was going around upriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text -
víri peenvári payêem upikyâatih.
Ben Wilder is fixing it now.Source: Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (WB_KL-91) | read full text -
utíshraamhitih.
It is a valley.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káru ávansa káan uhyárih, úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
And a man is standing there, he is pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
víri vaa vúra yítha úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
There is one pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káru yítha úkviipti mukún'aavkam.
And one is running in front of them.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
víri vaa vúra úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
There is (one) pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra vaa vúra káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuuptih.
Again he is standing there like that, he is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
vaa vúra payítha kári úkviipti mú'aavkam.
The one is still running in front of him like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás vúra vaa úksuuptih pa'ávansa.
The man is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra úksuuptih.
(One) is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás vaa vúra úkviipti pa'ávansa mú'aavkam.
The man is running in front of him like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan, úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
Now a woman is the one standing, she is pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás uum káru úksuupkutih pa'ípaha.
She too is pointing at the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan vaa vúra káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuuptih.
The woman is standing there like that, she is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
vaa vúra káan pa'asiktávaan uhyárih, víri vaa vúra úksuuptih.
The woman is standing like that, there she is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa úkviipti mú'aavkam.
The man is running in front of her.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
vaa vúra pa'ávansa úkviipti mú'aavkam.
The man is running in front of her like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra vaa káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuuptih.
Again she is standing there like that, she is pointing like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káru uum vaa vúra úkviipti mú'aavkam.
And (the one) is running in front of her like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
yeeripáxvu uhyárih, úksuupkuti ípaha, káan u'íihya.
A girl is standing, she is pointing at a tree, it is standing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra payeenipaxvúhich káan uhyárih, vaa vúra úksuupkuti pa'ípaha.
Again the little girl is standing there, she is pointing at the tree like that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa vaa vúra úkviipti, kúnish yiimúsich payêem.
The man is running like that, sort of far away now.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás avansáxiich uum u'áhootih, pa'ipahasúruk kúnish tu'uum.
A boy is walking in front, he is sort of going under the tree.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás á' u'ákuraati papimustihvâanarak.
He is putting his paws up on the window.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pachishíi uhyári amkírak a', u'áamti asíp'anamahachak.
The dog is standing on top of the table, he is eating from a small bowl.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'ávansa káan uhyárih, u'ákihti páchishiih.
The man is standing there, he is feeding the dog.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás paachvíiv káan úkxiiptih, kúnish tu'áy páchishiih.
The bird is flying there, it is sort of afraid of the dog.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pachishíi u'áharamuti sahíshyuuxach.
The dog is chasing a rabbit.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pachishíi káan úkrii, tóo kfuuyshur, umyáhyaahtih.
The dog is sitting there, it is tired, it is panting.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
túuyship uvêehrimva, xás utíshraamhitih musúrukam.
Mountains are standing, and a valley is below them.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás musmus'asiktâan káan uhyárih, pírish u'áamtih.
A cow is standing there, she is eating grass.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káan tishrámkaam, xás úhthaamhitih, káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
utishramhúniihva káru máruk, víri vaa káan káru uhthaamhíramhitih.
There are fields on the slopes uphill also, there is cultivated ground there too.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'ávansa usrûuntih payuraschíshiih.
The man is leading the horse.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok ávansa vuraakírak uvôoruraatih, úmkaanvutih.
Here a man is climbing on a ladder, he is picking apples.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás paaxíich kuníkshuupkuti pa'ápsuun.
The children are pointing at the snake.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káru pápaa úuth uthívruuhtih.
And the boat is floating out in the water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa úuth uvíitih.
The man is paddling out in the water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payôok yurástiim kunifyúkiichvutih pa'ávansa káru payeeripáxvuh.
Here the man and the girl are taking a walk on the seashore.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum pichas'ípaha uvêehrimva, xás simsímtas utaaspáthahitih.
These peach trees are standing, and there is a wire fence around.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum tishrámkaam, xás utuyshíiprinahiti yiiv.
This is a big valley, and there are mountains rising far away.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaan utráamnihti pa'ásipak.
The woman is looking in the bowl.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
pa'amkír káan utháaniv, xás ukxúrikahiti ávahkam ípaha.
The table is sitting there, and a tree is drawn on top.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káan pa'ávansa uhyárih, úmuustih.
A man is standing there, he is looking at it.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
yítha ithyáruk úksuupkaratih.
One is pointing across-stream.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
xás uum kunchúuphiti pa'ávansa xákaan.
She and the man are talking.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
káan ára áxak, yítha uum fâatva âapun ukyâatih.
Two people are there, one is doing something on the ground.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
á' úknuuptihach.
It's shaped like a mushroom.Source: Various speakers, "Miscellaneous Sentences" (WB_KV) | read full text -
naa vúra pufâat neekyáatihara.
I'm not doing anything.Source: Various speakers, "Miscellaneous Sentences" (WB_KV) | read full text -
naa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih.
I've got a small mouth.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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ya naa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih.
I've got a small mouth.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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víri vaa kích upítih,
tupuxíchkaanva,
vúra tu'ih,
too máahrav:
That's all she would say, she's really dancing real hard, she's knowing things now:Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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naa vúra naapmán'anamahachhitih.
I've got a small mouth.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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kúmá'ii papuna'ûusurutih.
That's why I can't take it out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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vaa uxúti pakúusrah hôoy tu'aramsîiprivtih.
He's wondering where the sun comes from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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xás uxútih kíri vaa káan ni'uum,
pakáan kúusrah hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih.
He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih.
He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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