Ararahih'urípih
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yith other, different

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7096 | revised Feb 14 2016

yith • DET • other, different

Derivatives (8)
ith'ára "someone else"
yichkúnish "funny-looking"
yíthuk "elsewhere, in a different place"
yíthukam "on the other side"
yithukánva "at different places; separately"
yíthumas "each in turn"
yithumásva "each one in turn"
yithúva "various"

Source: WB 1678, p.401

  • yíth kumeekrívraam another house [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 152]
  • tâak yíth kuna. Give me another one. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 394]
  • pukúkuum vaa káan yíth piiftíhara. Another one never grows back. [Reference: TK 65.24]

Sentence examples (23)

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  1. yíth kúna tá nikyâasip, tuupichasyâach.
    I start another one, with smaller sticks.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

  2. 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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  3. káru papufich'imváram uum yith,
    And the deermeat plate is different.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  4. 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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  5. nuu vúra yith va'áraar, yith kuma'áraaras,
    We're different people, a different kind of people,
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  6. xás yíth upíip: " áthiik tuvîish, chími nuptaamáaxi."
    Then one said: "It is getting cold, let's scrape up the coals."
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  7. xás axmáy vúra kúnish ukéen, xás yíth upíip: " atafâat pihnêefich. ããx, atafâat pihnêefich."
    Then all at once it kind of moved, and one said: "Maybe it's Coyote. Oh, maybe it's Coyote."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text

  8. 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

  9. chavúra pâanpay chím axmay yíth ukúha.
    Then all at once one of the people got sick.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  10. yíth kúna u'árihish.
    Then she sang another song.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text

  11. 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

  12. xás yíth upíip " atafâat naa pihnêefich.
    And another said, "Maybe it's Coyote.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  13. xás kúkuum vúra yíth ukúniihka.
    And he shot at another one.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  14. 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

  15. kúkuum vúra yíth ukúniihka.
    Again he shot at another.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  16. xás upíip " chími yíth kanpárihish.
    And he said, "Let me turn into someone else!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  17. kári xás yíth upárihish.
    Then he sang a different one.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

  18. yakún yíth áraar u'iiníshriheesh."
    A different people is going to come into existence."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  19. yakún yíth ára tu'íinish.
    A different people was coming into existence.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  20. 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