Chester Pepper: "Coyote and the Sun" (1949)

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Note: This text was recorded by William Bright without Karuk transcriptions or English free translations. Free translations were provided by Vina Smith (2013).

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[1]	pihnêefich	uum	v-oo-kúphaa-nik
	coyote	3.SG	so-3s(>3)-do-ANC

Coyote did that.

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[2]	vaa	u-xú-ti	pa-kúusrah	hôoy	t-u-'aramsîipriv-tih
	so	3s(>3)-think-DUR	the-sun	where	PERF-3s(>3)-start.out-DUR

He's wondering where the sun comes from.

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[3]	mâam	pa-t-u-súpaaha	maruk	t-oo	trâa	t-u-vásip
	uphill	NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)-become.day	uphill	PERF-3s(>3)	look.upward	PERF-3s(>3)-rise.up

When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill.

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[4]	ku-máam	vúra	hôoy	u-píip	p-oo-'aramsîip	t-u-vásip
	3sPOSS-uphill	Intensive	where	3s(>3)-say	NOMZ-3s(>3)-start.out	PERF-3s(>3)-rise.up

He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.

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[5]	xás	u-xú-tih	kíri	vaa	káan	ni-'uum	pa-káan	kúusrah	hôoy	u-'aramsîipriv-tih
	then	3s(>3)-think-DUR	I.wish	so	there	1s(>3)-arrive	NOMZ-there	sun	where	3s(>3)-start.out-DUR

He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.

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[6]	táma	u-kfuukrâa-heen
	then	3s(>3)-climb.up.from.downhill-ANT

Then he went up the hill.

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[7]	chavúra	vaa	káan	úum	máruk	u-kfúkuvraa
	finally	so	there	3.SG	uphill	3s(>3)-climb.over

Then he had gotten there, up on top of the hill.

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[8]	yée	yáxa	ithyáruk	xás	u-vásip	pa-kúusrah
	well	look!	across	then	3s(>3)-rise.up	the-sun

There was the sun coming up from across (the next hill).

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[9]	kúkuum	vúra	u-'áhoo
	again	Intensive	3s(>3)-go

Then he was walking again.

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[10]	kúkuum	vúra	vaa	káan	u-'uum
	again	Intensive	so	there	3s(>3)-arrive

Then he got there again.

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[11]	kúkuum	ithyáruk	xás	t-u-váasip	pa-kúusrah
	again	across	then	PERF-3s(>3)-rise.up	the-sun

Then the sun rose across from him again.

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[12]	payêem	vúra	hôoyva	u-'aramsîipriv-tih	pu-'aapunmuti	u-xú-ti	ku-mâam	vúra	u-píip	p-oo-'aramsîipriv-tih
	now	Intensive	somewhere	3s(>3)-start.out-DUR	NEG-know	3s(>3)-think-DUR	3sPOSS-uphill	Intensive	3s(>3)-say	NOMZ-3s(>3)-start.out-DUR

He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.

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[13]	víri-va	pihnêefich	u-kúphaa-nik
	so-so	coyote	3s(>3)-do-ANC

Coyote did that.

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[14]	vaa	vúra	kich
	so	Intensive	only

That's all.

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