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asiktávaan woman; female
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lexicon ID #656 | revised Aug 19 2014
asiktávaan • N • woman; female Variant: asiktâan.
Literally: 'water-carrier'
Derivation: | áas iktav-aan |
water hold.in.hand-Agentive |
Derivatives (7)
asiktávaanha "to marry a woman"
asiktávaan_imxaathtíhan "plant sp."
asiktavankêem "woman's name, Mary Ike"
asiktavanpírish "love medicine to get a woman"
chimchikara'asiktávaan "leafy species of horsetail"
kaf'asiktávaan "leaf of káaf 'Indian rhubarb'"
apxantinihich'asiktávaan "white woman"
Source: WB 145.6, p.3212
Note: Means 'female' in forms like musmus'asiktávaan 'cattle-female, cow'. "Of the flower stalk or of a plant with little foliage they say ávan 'husband' 'male' [because naked]; of a plant with a well-leaved or skirted appearance, they say asiktávaan 'woman'" (JPH pla 06:513).
- patakunikvíit-hinaa hôoy vúra vaa kun'írunaati, tûupichas pa'asiktávaansahanik. When everybody slept, the mice went anywhere, those small girls that used to be women. [Reference: KS38. Mice story 024]
- áxak asiktâan kun'íinanik kustáaras ameekyáaraam. Two women, sisters, once lived at ameekyáaraam. [Reference: WB 17: Coyote Gives Salmon 001]
Short recordings (5) | Sentence examples (83)
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xas pa'asiktávaansa káru áhup tá kuntúrar.
Then the women went out to fetch firewood.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
asiktávaan
woman, femaleSource: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
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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oo, vúra uum táay vura uum pa'asiktávaansa lots of women, you know, up there in the reservation.
Oh and there were lots of women up there in the reservation.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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vúra uum kâanimich pa'asiktávaan.
The lady is poor.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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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 -
xás pihnêefich tutápkuup pa'asiktávaansa.
And Coyote took a liking to the women.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 -
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 -
kári xás axmáy vúra pa'asiktávaan upiip " yáxa, ee! yáxa ithyáruk."
Then suddenly one woman said, "Look, oh look across-river!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás kúna kunpiip, " asiktávaan pamukun'átimnam máruk tá kunsánaan.
And next they said, "Women carry their burden-baskets uphill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
kári xás tá kunpávyiihship pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women leave for home.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text -
xás ta'ítam pa'asiktávaan uparatánmaahpa.
So then the woman turned back.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
áxak asiktâan kun'íinanik kustáaras ameekyáaraam.
Two women, sisters, once lived at ameekyáaraam (Ike's Falls).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 -
ta'ítam kunífikaheen paxuntápan pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women gathered the acorns.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás upíkvip sáruk káan pa'asiktávaansa kun'íinirak.
Then he ran downhill to where the women lived.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás kunpirúviish pa'asiktávaansa.
Then the women came back down.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
xás vúra uum yâamach mu'asiktaván'aramah.
And her female child was pretty.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
íkiich nimáheesh pa'asiktávaan."
Maybe I'll see the woman."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
pa'asiktavan'îin kunipêer "
xáyfaat,
xáyfaat ivâaram."
The women told him, "Don't, don't go."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás payáan'iiftihansa tá kunívyiihma káru pa'asiktávaansas.
And the young men and the women arrived.Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text -
ayu'âach pa'asiktávaan uum yáan'iiftihansa.''
It's because the women are young."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 -
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 -
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 -
kári xás pa'asiktâan uvôonsip.
Then the woman got up.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
xás káan askitávaan utápkuup.
He liked a woman there.Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | 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 -
pa'asiktávaan káru uum tuvôonupuk.
The woman went out too.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava patóo kxáramha,
pa'asiktávaan tu'ípak.
And when it got dark, the woman returned home.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
vúra yáv pa'asiktávaan.
She was a good woman.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
púyava imáan tuvôonupuk,
pa'asiktávaan.
So the next day the woman went out.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan tóo pvâaram.
Then the woman went back home.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 -
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 -
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 -
púyava kúkuum vúra kúmateech tá kunpavyíhuk pa'asiktávaansa.
Again later in the day the women came back.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 -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan uxús "
ii!
ninikeechíkyav.
And the woman thought, "Oh, my sweetheart!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pa'asiktávaan "
payaas'ára u'iiníshrihaak víri xáat káru tá kun'íitshur,
víriva vúra upmáheesh paninipákuriha mûuk.
And the woman said, "When Mankind comes into existence, (a woman) may also become abandoned, (but) she will find (her sweetheart) again by means of my song.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | 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 -
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 -
áxak kunifyúkuti asiktávaansa kôokaninay.
Two women wandered around everywhere.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
iknûumin veekxaréeyav itráhyar mutúnviivhanik,
ávansas káru yítha asiktávaan.
Burrill Peak Spirit had ten children, (nine) men and one woman.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
kári xás asiktâan kinipéer
" chími shipnúkaam kiikvîiki."
And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
patapriha'asiktávaan kanimúsan."
Let me go see the woman at patapríhak (a part of Weitchpec?)!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
káan uyvéesh,
pakun'íinirak,
pa'asiktávaan.
He poured it there where the women were.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 -
púyava xás patá kun'íshunva kári xás pa'asiktávaan kúuk u'uum.
So when they buried him (there), then the woman went there.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
kári xás asiktâan upéer, "
nuxákaanhi."
And she said to a woman, "Let's go together!"Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
chîinach asiktávaan ukrêenik.
A woman once lived at chîinach (upriver opposite Orleans).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text -
kári xás impáak úskaaksur pa'asiktávaan.
And the woman jumped off of the path.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
vaa káan asiktâan úkrii.
A (certain) woman lived there.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
xás upíip pa'asiktávaan, "
xáyfaat ík ipasúpiichva.
And the woman said, "You mustn't reveal it.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás pa'asiktávaan upiip, "
chími kanthimnûupi."
And the woman said, "Let me roast it!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text -
kári xás uskákuni pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman jumped down.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
púyava kári xás u'íipma pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman arrived back at her home.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | 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'asiktávaansas uum kun'ífikvunaa xuntápan.
The women gathered acorns.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | 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 -
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 -
áxak pa'asiktávaansas tá kunikyávaanha.
Two women acted as priestesses.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pa'asiktávaansas uum kuníshtuukvanaatih.
The women picked them.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 -
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 mít vaa káan asiktávaan uhróot.
He hired a woman there.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
xás kári ukôoha pa'asiktávaan.
Then the woman (from Katimin) quit.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
xás vaa káan nupíkva paasiktávaansas kóovan.
And the women there and I told stories.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | 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 -
payêem asiktávaan peehyárihan.
Now a woman is the one standing.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 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 asiktávaan uhyári yurástiim.
A woman is standing there on the seashore.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'asiktávaan yiivári kúuk tu'íipma, tóo ktaamsip pa'ásip.
The woman goes away again, she carries off the bowl.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
kúna vúra payêem ápapkam asiktávaan yítha.
But now one woman is on one side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
payêem uum pa'asiktávaan ôokukam.
Now the woman is on this side.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text