Ararahih'urípih
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típah (variant tipahêer) brother, male cousin

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6081 | revised Nov 03 2015

típah • N • brother, male cousin

Variant tipahêer (lexicon ID #7598): Used in general plural tipahêeras

Derivative (1)
tipáhiichva "stepbrother"

Source: WB 1386, p.386

Note: The plural (without possessive prefixes) is tipahêeras, The possessed plural is, e.g., nanitipáhiivshas 'my brothers'.

  • víri vaa káan kun'ífanik, samnanaktíshraam, tipahêeras, chimuchtunvêech. So there they were raised, at Forks of Salmon Valley, ten brothers, young lizards. [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 003]
  • xás uxús pihnêefich, tîi kanpípaan pamutipáhiivsha, píith tákunsaam. Then Coyote thought, "Let me go tell his brothers," there were four left. [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 063]

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  1. pamitípa ipêen ôok naa.
    Go get your brother.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  2. mitípa ipêen ôok naa.
    Go get your brother.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  3. naa ipshûunkinich, kúna pananitípa uum vâaram.
    My brother is taller than me. (I'm short, but my brother is tall.)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  4. 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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  5. ta'ítam tá nupimnîish nanitípah xákaan.
    So we cooked, my brother and I.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. 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

  7. íkiich káru vúra mutípa káru muxúkam káru vúra akâay vúra pamu'áraar.
    Maybe too it would be his brother or his uncle or any relative of his.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text

  8. xás mutípa síit.
    And his brother was Mouse.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

  9. itáharavan kun'ífanik tipahêeras.
    Ten brothers grew up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  10. 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

  11. itáharavan kun'íifshipreenik tipahêeras.
    Ten brothers once grew up.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  12. kári xás uthítiv, yóo chrívchav pá'aas, pa'úkraam, pakunpáathkuri pamutípah.
    Then he heard it, he saw the water splash in the lake, when (the giant) threw his brother in.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  13. ta'ítam koovúra kunpimtávaheen pamutipáhiivshas.
    And all his brothers came back to life.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text

  14. 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