Julia Starritt: "Smoke" (1957)
Primary participants: Julia Starritt (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-90
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 302-303, Text
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Text display mode: paragraph | sentence | word | word components
| [1] | kuyûum | amkúf-kaam |
| just.downriver | smoke-large |
| There's a big (lot of) smoke just downriver. |
| [2] | naa | ni-xú-ti | Herbert | u-'aahk-ôo-ti | pa-táhpuus |
| 1sg. | 1s(>3)-think-DUR | Herbert | 3s(>3)-set.fire.to-PL.ACT-DUR | the-young.fir.tree |
| I think Herbert is burning fir boughs. |
| [3] | hári | tá | mít | u-kpákishrih-at | pa-'ípaha |
| sometime | PERF | near.past | 3s(>3)-cut.down-PAST | the-tree |
| He cut down a tree sometime (recently). |