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

Violet Super: Sentences about weather and cooking (1989)

Primary participants: Violet Super (speaker), Monica Macaulay (researcher)
Date: July 12, 1989
Location: Orleans, CA
Project identifier: VSu-05
Recording held by American Philosophical Society: http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/audio:4530


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[1]

tupáthrih.

It's raining.

[2]

upáthriihtih.

It's been raining, it's raining.

[3]

ukyútunihtih.

It's snowing.

[4]

tóo púukha.

It's foggy, it's getting foggy.

[5]

chí á' pákathuneesh.

You should cook.

[6]

chí pimnîish!

Cook!

[7]

káru vúra chími nipimnísheesh.

And (you can say) just, I'm going to cook.

[8]

chími nipimnísheesh.

I'm going to cook.

[9]

chí nipimnísheesh.

I'm going to cook.