Ararahih'urípih
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xáyfaat don't ; no way (expresses a strong prohibition not to do something)

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lexicon ID #6881 | revised Apr 08 2008

xáyfaat • INTERJ • don't ; no way (expresses a strong prohibition not to do something)

Source: WB 1616.1, p.398

  • xáyfaat ichúuphiti. Don't talk! [Reference: Richardson 1993:16]
  • xáyfaat ík kúkuum nu'íchunva. No way are we going to hide again! [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 036]

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  1. xáyfaat!
    Don't!
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. xáyfaat ik kúkuum nu'íchunva."
    We won't hide again!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  3. xas upíip, "xáyfaat, ôok vúra kíik'iini."
    But he said, "Don't do that! Stay right here!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. xás kuníppéer: " iim kyáru vura xáy faat ík ôok ipáfyuk, iim kyáru vura pu'ôok ikrêevishara," achvúun kuníppéer.
    And they told him: "You yourself must not come around here, you too are not going to stay here," they told Hookbill.
    Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text

  9. xáyfaat i'ish panani'íshaha.
    Don't take my water.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  10. xáyfaat i'áfish pamu'ápsuun.
    Don't touch his snake.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  11. xáyfaat ixráratih.
    Don't cry.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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  12. xáyfaat ixrára.
    Don't cry.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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  13. xáyfaat íkshah.
    Don't laugh.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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  14. xáyfaat âapun ishárishriheesh.
    Don't put it on the floor (lots of small things).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about putting and motion (VS-12) | read full text
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  15. xáyfaat tóo 'ikxipma iinâak.
    It shouldn't fly into the house.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  16. xáyfaat máruk ivâaram.
    Don't go uphill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  17. xáyfaat sáruk i'árihfak.
    Don't walk downhill.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  18. xáyfaat vaa káan ithárishrih ahup'ásip súrukam.
    Don't put it underneath the box.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-13) | read full text
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  19. 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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  20. xáyfaat kuchuuphínaatih!
    Don't talk!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  21. 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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  22. xáyfaat uhyanaváraar mûuk núchuupha!
    Don't call me!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  23. xáyfaat ishxâar!
    Don't go fishing!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  24. xayfáat iim vishvánkaam.
    Don't get a big belly.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  25. xáyfaat ishkáakatih.
    Stop jumping on it.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  26. xáyfaat i'áamtih.
    Don't be eating.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. xáyfaat ípahak ihyárih!
    Don't stand in the tree!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  30. xáyfaat nani'asímnaam kutháaniv
    Don't lie on my bed! (talking to more than one person)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  31. xáyfaat nanikrívkir ikûuntakoo
    Don't sit on my chair!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
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  32. xáyfaat iknáknak!
    Don't knock!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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  33. xáyfaat naxáapka!
    Don't kick me!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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  34. xáyfaat ná'iik!
    Don't hit me.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text
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  35. xáyfaat ichúupha!
    Don't talk!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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  36. xáyfaat vaa ichuphûunish!
    Don't talk to him!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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  37. xáyfaat kinchuphuníshkoo!
    Don't talk to us.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and talking to people (VS-36) | read full text
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  38. xáyfaat ík mán iyúupha."
    Don't open your eyes."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

  39. kúna vúra xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
    But you mustn't open your eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  40. kári xás kunipêer " xáyfaat ík iyúupha.
    And they told him, "Don't open your eyes.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  41. " xáyfaat núhmaachichva."
    "Let's not fool with it."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  42. kúna vúra xáyfaat iyúupha."
    But don't open your eyes."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  43. xás upíip " náachish, xáyfaat ík vúra neexviphûunish."
    Then he said, "Nephew, you mustn't get angry at me!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  44. xáyfaat ík vúra íshaha umah.
    He mustn't find any water.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  45. upíip " pûuhara, xáyfaat úuth kanapípaathkar.
    He said, "No, don't throw me in the river.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  46. kúna vúra i'asimchákeesh ík, xáyfaat ík itxâarihva.
    But you must close your eyes, you mustn't open them.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  47. xáyfaat kukuníhuraa."
    Don't shoot it up!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  48. kári xás upíip " chími man, kúna vúra xáyfaat ík i'ûurih."
    And they said, "All right, but you mustn't get tired."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

  49. xáyfaat vaa ukupítih.
    Let it not do that.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text

  50. kári xás pihnêefich upiip, " xáyfaat, pûuhara.
    Then Coyote said, "No, don't.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full text

  51. kúna vúra páykuuk yíiv áhoon, payôok xáyfaat i'áhoo, peempaheepshûunkinich, kâarim ikupheesh.
    But go by the far way yonder, don't travel (by the way) right here, on the short road, you'll do badly.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text

  52. xás kîit upiip, " xáyfaat.
    And (his) grandmother said, "Don't.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

  53. 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

  54. xáyfaat kíikmahap."
    Don't let them see you."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text

  55. xás upêer " xáyfaat ík vúra haríxay kâam kúuk i'íipma.
    And he told him, "You mustn't ever go back upriver there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  56. íp kanéepeerat ' xáyfaat ôok inaa'."
    They told me, 'Don't go up there.'"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  57. 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

  58. víri vaa kinípeeranik " hûutva kóo ithívthaaneen uthaanêehaak, xáyfaat ik kúkuum vúra vaa kukupeepvíkaha."
    (But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text

  59. kunpakúriihvutih, " xáyfaat nutáapxuv."
    They were singing, "Let us not capsize!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  60. xáyfaat ík ná'ay.
    You mustn't be afraid of me.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  61. xáyfaat ík íkvip."
    You mustn't run.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  62. xáyfaat ímuustih."
    Don't look at her!"
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text

  63. xáyfaat ík kúykar pa'ápsuun pa'ôok kumáhaak."
    You mustn't kill the snakes when you see them here."
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text

  64. 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

  65. 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