Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Phoebe Maddux: The Name of Tobacco (1932)

Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-III.2
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), pp. 44-45
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)

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The Name of Tobacco

[1] pa-hûut    u-thvúy-tiih-va    p-eehêeraha   
the-how    3s(>3)-be.named-DUR-PL.ACT    the-tobacco   
The Name of Tobacco
(title)

[2] ihêeraha   
tobacco   
tobacco, tobacco plant; literally means "that which is smoked"

[3] uuh   
tobacco   
old name for tobacco

[4] úh-af   
tobacco-excrement   
nicotine; the pithy substance that accumulates in a Karuk smoking pipe

[5] sísh-af   
penis-excrement   
semen

[6] víth-af   
vulva-excrement   
mucus secretion of the vagina

[7] aaf   
excrement   
excrement

[8] uh-'áhakuv   
tobacco-go.to.(place)   
name of one of the days of the new-year ceremony

[9] uh-'ípih   
tobacco-go.to.(place)   
tobacco stem, tobacco stalk

[10] ípih   
go.to.(place)   
bone

[11] 'ípa   
tree   
tree, plant

[12] uh-raam   
tobacco-place   
tobacco pipe of any kind

[13] uh-sípnuuk   
tobacco-storage.basket   
tobacco basket

[14] iheeraha-sípnuuk   
tobacco-storage.basket   
tobacco basket

[15] sípnuuk   
storage.basket   
storage basket

[16] uh-tat-vára-ar   
tobacco-handle.with.implement-in.through-INST   
sweathouse tobacco lighting stick

[17] uh-thiishríh-raam   
tobacco-put.aside-place   
placename, where they put tobacco

[18] uh-tayvará-raam   
tobacco-spoil-place   
placename, where they spoil tobacco