Ararahih'urípih
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tîi let... (expressing wish)

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lexicon ID #6042 | revised Aug 23 2005

tîi • PCL • let... (expressing wish)

Source: WB 1372, p.385

Note: Used with first person imperative, expressing a decision.

  • tîi kan'áhoo Let me walk! I think I'll walk! [Reference: WB files]
  • tîi vúra naa kánsiitvi. I might as well steal it. [Reference: TK 91.4]

Sentence examples (61)


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  1. xás uxus: " tîi káruk kanvâarami."
    He thought: "Let me go upriver."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  2. xas uxus: " tîi matêe kanpútyiinkachi páy pa'asayâamachak, vúra uum yâamach pa'as.
    Then he thought: "Let me do just a little bit of job on this nice rock, it looks so nice."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  3. " tîi matêe kanipvínaxsunachi.
    "Let me taste it by sticking out my tongue.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  4. tîi pay kich xas kumatêeshich kuna kanpútyiinkachi."
    Let me do a little bit more of job on it."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text

  5. kári xás uxus: "tîi yítha kán'ám paxathímtup."
    Then he thought: "Let me eat one of the 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

  6. xás uxus: " ti kanítnuupnihi'."
    He thought: "I am going to look in!"
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text

  7. kári xás uxútih, " tîi kanparíshriihvi.
    And he thought, "Let me twine string!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  8. xás uxus, " tîi kúuk kaníkfuukmi."
    And he thought, "Let me crawl to it."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  9. kári xás papishpíshi uxus, " tîi páy kan'am.
    And the yellowjacket thought, "Let me eat this."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  10. kári xás uxús papihnêefich " tîi kányuuphi.
    And Coyote thought, "Let me open my eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

  11. kári xás kári uxus, " tîi kányuuphi, apapíichyuupich."
    And (Coyote) thought, "Let me open my eyes, just one little eye."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  12. xás uxúti " tîi kanpakatkâatih."
    And he thought, "Let me taste it!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  13. 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

  14. uxúti " tîi kanpakatkâati papatúmkir."
    And he thought, "Let me taste the pillows!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  15. xás uxús pihnêefich " tîi kanitníshuk."
    And Coyote thought, "Let me look out!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  16. pihnêefich uxus, " tîi kahyúras kanvâarami, ishpúk kanikyáan."
    Coyote thought, "Let me go to Klamath Lakes, let me go get money."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  17. kári xás uxus, " tîi yíth kanpíkyav pananíshaanva."
    And he thought, "Let me get a different suit of clothes."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  18. kári xás uxus, " tîi kan'ám yítha."
    Then he thought, "Let me eat one."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  19. kári xás uxus, " tîi kanpakatkâati."
    Then he thought, "Let me taste them."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  20. xás uxus, " tîi kanitníshukvi."
    And (Coyote) thought, "Let me look out!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  21. uknîi. pihnêefich " kahyúras" uxus, " tîi kanvâarami."
    uknîi. Coyote thought, "Let me go to Klamath Lakes!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  22. xás uxus, " tîi kanípuunvi.
    And he thought, "Let me rest.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  23. tîi naa kúna kan'árihishrih paninipákurih."
    Let me sing my song now."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  24. tîi kanpípaachun."
    Let me throw (the song) away."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  25. tîi kanvasíhuunihi.
    Let me go down back first!
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

  26. tîi kanixvâahuunihi.
    Let me go down head first!
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

  27. uxús " tîi kankanmahvanáyviichvan."
    He thought, "Let me go look around, just for fun."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

  28. xás uxus, " tîi kanpútyiinkachi."
    And he thought, "Let me defecate on it!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  29. tîi kanvínaxsunachi.
    Let me lick it off!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  30. tîi kan'am."
    Let me eat it!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  31. tîi têeshich vúra."
    Let (me eat) a little more!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  32. " chémi, kúkuum tîi kan'am."
    "All right, let me eat it again!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  33. tîi matêe áama kan'am."
    Let me eat salmon for a moment!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  34. xás uxús " tîi káan kanvunáyviichvan.
    And he thought, "Let me go look around there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  35. kári xás uxus " tîi kanimúsan."
    And he thought, "Let me go see her!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  36. xás uxús " tîi kanimnîishi.
    Then he thought, "Let me cook it!
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text

  37. 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

  38. kári xás uxús kachakâach " tîi kantharampûuki."
    Then Blue Jay thought, "Let me make acorn soup!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  39. xás kári uxus, " tîi máruk kanvâarami."
    And he thought, "Let me go uphill."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  40. tîi kanimúsan."
    Let me go look at it!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  41. kári xás pirishkâarim upiip, " tîi kanikyaavárihvi."
    Then Grizzly said, "Let me try!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  42. 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

  43. xás kári pa'asiktávaan kunxus, " tîi vaa káan nusôomvan."
    And the women thought, "Let's go offer ourselves in marriage there!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text

  44. kári xás vírusur uxus, " tîi naa káru."
    And Bear thought, "Let me (go) too!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text

  45. ithyarukpíhriiv u'árihroov, uxus, " tîi káruk kanvâarami."
    Across-the-Water Widower went upriver, he thought, "Let me go upriver!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text

  46. xás kunxús " nuu káru vaa tîi núkuuphi."
    And they thought, "Let us do that too!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  47. kári xás uxus, " ii! tîi naa káru kan'ûupvan."
    And she thought, "Oh, let me go dig roots too!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

  48. xás uxús " tîi kanvâarami."
    And he thought, "Let me go there!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  49. xás uxus, " tîi kanpimúsanvunaa."
    And he thought, "Let me go to see them again!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  50. ta'ítam uxúsanik peekpihantâapas, " tîi xákaan núvuunvi."
    So the strongest one thought, "Let me wrestle with him!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  51. xás uxus, " tîi ithyáruk kanpimúsan pa'ifápiit."
    He thought, "Let me go across to see the girl again!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  52. xás uxus, " tîi kanimúsan."
    And he thought, "Let me go see!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  53. xás uxus, " tîi kanpikvátan pananípaah."
    And he thought, "Let me go get my boat!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  54. xás uxus, " tîi kan'ixupsúroo, pasípnuuk."
    And he thought, "Let me uncover the storage baskets!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  55. xás uxus, " tîi ithyáruk patapríha'ifápiit kanimúsan."
    And he thought, "Let me go across river to see the patapríhak girl!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  56. xás uxús " tîi máruk chinach'ásak kánpaathkirihi paninisárum.
    And she thought, "Let me throw my pine-roots in the water, uphill at Big Rock.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text

  57. kári xás ithâan ávansa uxus, " tîi kanikrûuntih."
    And once a man thought, "Let me wait (for her)!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text

  58. kári xás upiip, " tîi kanítkaanvan."
    And he said, "Let me go spear fish!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text

  59. kári xás uxus, " tîi sáruk kanvâarami impaak."
    And she thought, "Let me go downhill on the path!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

  60. kári xás uxus, " tîi kantharampûuki."
    And she thought, "Let me cook acorn soup!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text

  61. xás upiip, " tîi kánpaatvan."
    And he said, "Let me go bathe!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text