Phoebe Maddux: Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (1932)

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[1]	p-eheeraha-'íppa	mu-p-ikyutunvá-ra-muu	káru	koovúra	pa-mú-thvuy
	the-tobacco-tree	3sPOSS-ITER-between.joint-here-to	also	all	the-3sPOSS-name

"Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"

(title)

[2]	p-eheeraha-'íppa	pa-kóo	u-thvúy-ttiih-va	pa-mu-shvitá-va
	the-tobacco-tree	the-all	3s(>3)-be.named-DUR-PL.ACT	the-3sPOSS-piece-INDEF

"Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"

(alternate title)

[3]	koovúra	p-eheeraha-'íppa
	all	the-tobacco-tree

"The Plant"

(heading)

[4]	íp	ni-máh-at	pa-mi-heeraha-ppírish
	PAST	1s(>3)-see-PAST	the-2sPOSS-tobacco-plant

I saw your good for nothing tobacco weeds.

[5]	yáan	vúr	u-'íkkyusunu-tih-ach	p-eheeraha-ppírish
	recently	Intensive	3s(>3)-point.(in.direction)-DUR-DIM.(verbs)	the-tobacco-plant

The tobacco is just starting to come up.

(Harrington: "said in reference to the plant or leaves when first pricking above the soil")

[6]	mu-p-ikutunvá-ra-muu
	3sPOSS-ITER-between.joint-here-to

its joints

(Harrington: "applicable to the parts of a plant, but cannot be said of the parts of a one-piece object, like a pipe.")

[7]	pa-mu-shvitá-va
	the-3sPOSS-piece-INDEF

its various parts or pieces

(Harrington: "applicable to the parts of a one-piece object, like a pipe")

[8]	pirísh-'anammahach
	plant-little

little leaf

(Harrington: "used especially of grotesque or useless leaves or plants, or of little weeds coming up, e.g., in a tobacco plot")

[9]	pinish-tunvêechchas
	plant-small.(pl.)

little leaves

(Harrington: "used especially of grotesque or useless leaves or plants, or of little weeds coming up, e.g., in a tobacco plot")

[10]	pa-mu-'íppa
	the-3sPOSS-tree

its stalk or plant

[11]	pa-mu-ppírish
	the-3sPOSS-plant

its foliage

[12]	á'yaach	vúr	u-vêehrím-va	p-oo-'íif-ti	p-eehêeraha
	straight.up	Intensive	3s(>3)-stand.(things)-PL.ACT	NOMZ-3s(>3)-grow-DUR	the-tobacco

The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.

[13]	á'yaach	vúra	u-vêehrim-va	p-oo-'íif-ti	p-eheeraha-'íppa
	straight.up	Intensive	3s(>3)-stand.(things)-PL.ACT	NOMZ-3s(>3)-grow-DUR	the-tobacco-tree

The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.

[14]	kôomahich	vúra	p-oo-veehpîithvu-ti	pa-mú-ptiik
	little.bit	Intensive	NOMZ-3s(>3)-spread.out-DUR	the-3sPOSS-branch

Its branches just spread a little.

[15]	p-eheeraha-'íppa	uum	vúra	iváxr-a	kúnish	koovúra	pu-'ássar-hara	sákriiv
	the-tobacco-tree	3.SG	Intensive	be.dry-DEVERB	sort.of	all	NEG-juicy-NEG	hard

The tobacco plant is all dryish, it is not juicy, it is tough.

[16]	p-eheerah-áaptiik	pa-'uh-'íppi	sákriiv-sha	pu-yâamahukich	kup-eeshpátt-ahi-tih-ara
	the-tobacco-branch	the-tobacco-bone	hard-PL	NEG-easy	MODAL-be.broken-Modal-DUR-NEG

The tobacco-branches, the tobacco-stems are tough; they do not break easily.

[17]	pa-tak-ikyâa-haak	pa-'uh-íppi	tá	kun-vupák-siiprin
	the---when	the-tobacco-bone	PERF	3pl(>3s)-trim-up.(pl.action)

When they pick the tobacco stems they cut them off.

[18]	káakum	vúra	a'vári	p-oo-'íif-ti	káru	káakum	vúra	âapunich
	some	Intensive	high	NOMZ-3s(>3)-grow-DUR	also	some	Intensive	low

Some [tobacco plants] grow low, some high.

[19]	vaa	vúra	a'vari-ttâapas	u-'íif-ti	pa-'avansa-'ávahkamvari	t-u-'íff-ahaak
	so	Intensive	high-most	3s(>3)-grow-DUR	the-man-towards.the.top	PERF-3s(>3)-grow-when

The highest that they grow is higher than man.

[20]	vaa	vúr	u-p-if-yîi-mmu-ti	pa-'avansa-'ávahkamvari	t-u-'íff-ahaak
	so	Intensive	3s(>3)-ITER-grow-far-to-DUR	the-man-towards.the.top	PERF-3s(>3)-grow-when

The highest it ever grows is higher than man.

[21]	vaa	uum	vúra	hitíhaan	arar-éethvaay-vari	vaa	kóo	vâaram-as-hi-tih
	that	3.SG	Intensive	always	human-chest-toward	so	as.much.as	long-PL-DENOM-DUR

But most of the time they come up to a person's chest.

[22]	vâaram-as
	long-PL

They are tall.