Ararahih'urípih
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Karuk Dictionary

by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)

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lexicon ID #4086 | revised Oct 31 2014

kúupha / kúuphi- V • to do

Variant kupi (lexicon ID #7809): Used with the durative suffix -ti(h)

Derivative (1)
kupíti "to be doing"

Source: WB 926, p.363

Note: Irregular tense forms: ukúphaanik 'he once did it' (ancient tense, G822.3); ukúphaat 'he did it (past tense, G534); ukúpheen 'he had done it' (anterior tense, G822.2); ukuphêesh 'he will do it' (future tense, G822.1); ukupíti 'he's doing it' (durative, G757). All forms of this verb are often unaccented when at the end of a sentence (cf. TK 53.28).

  • páy uum kuuphi. Do it this way! [Reference: KV]
  • pikváhahirak káru vúra vookúphaanik axraas. In the myth time, Gopher did the same thing. [Reference: TK 66.15]


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