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

Vina Smith: Washing (2015)

Primary participant: Vina Smith (speaker)
Date: 2015
Project identifier: VS-24
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen on March 25, 2015)

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Note: This anecdote is about 5 and a half minutes long, and was spoken in English and Karuk. Only Karuk sections are transcribed below.

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[1] vaa    pa-naní-taat    uum    t-u-píthxah    pa-nanú-saanva    koovúra    vúra   
so    the-1sPOSS-mother    3.SG    PERF-3s(>3)-wash    the-1plPOSS-clothing    all    Intensive   
My mother washed all our clothes.
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[2] pa-naní-taat    vúra    koovúra    u-píthxah   
the-1sPOSS-mother    Intensive    all    3s(>3)-wash   
My mother washed all (the clothes).
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[3] t-u-píthxah    pa-koovúra    pa-nanú-saanva    koovúra   
PERF-3s(>3)-wash    the-all    the-1plPOSS-clothing    all   
She washed them all, all our clothes.
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[4] vaa    xas    vúra    vaa    uum    vúra    uum    chéemyaach    káru    uum    vúra    vaa    pu-'aapúnmu-tih-ara    fâat    uum    pa-washing machine   
so    then    Intensive    so    3.SG    Intensive    3.SG    quickly    also    3.SG    Intensive    so    NEG-know-DUR-NEG    what    3.SG    the-washing machine   
And she was quick, and she didn't even know what a washing machine was.
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[5] vaa    káan    t-u-píthxah   
so    there    PERF-3s(>3)-wash   
She washed them there (in the back of the house).
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[6] hãã    hâari    u-páthriih-ti    káru   
yes    sometime    3s(>3)-rain-DUR    also   
Yes, sometimes it was even raining.
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[7] xás    káru    nuu    aah    nu-kyáa-ti    îikam   
then    also    we    fire    1pl(>3)-make-DUR    outdoors   
And we made a fire outside.
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[8] xás    vaa    káan    kêechas    vúra    páramva    pa-'íshaha   
then    so    there    big.ones    Intensive    boil    the-water   
We had to heat the water there.
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[9] i-páramva    pa-'íshaha    vaa    káan   
2s(>3)-boil    the-water    so    there   
You heated the water there.
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[10] oo    vúra    uum    ikyáakaam   
oh!    Intensive    3.SG    difficult   
Oh, it was hard.
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[11] vaa    vúra    ip    pa-'aapúnmu-ti    vaa    vúra    kich    vaa    kum-éekrii   
so    Intensive    PAST    NOMZ-know-DUR    so    Intensive    only    so    3sPOSS-life   
We only knew that kind of living.
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[12] hãã    vaa    vúra    kich    i-'aapúnmu-ti    vaa    kum-éekrii   
yes    so    Intensive    only    2s(>3)-know-DUR    so    3sPOSS-life   
Yes, you only knew that kind of living.
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