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

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[1]	peheeraha'íppa mupikyutunváramuu, káru koovúra pamúthvuy
	"Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"

(title)

[2]	peheeraha'íppa pakóo uthvúyttiihva pamushvitáva
	"Morphology of the Tobacco Plant"

(alternate title)

[3]	koovúra peheeraha'íppa
	"The Plant"

(heading)

[4]	íp nimáhat pamiheerahappírish.
	I saw your good for nothing tobacco weeds.

[5]	yáan vúr u'íkkyusunutihach peheerahappírish.
	The tobacco is just starting to come up.

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

[6]	mupikutunváramuu
	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]	pamushvitáva
	its various parts or pieces

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

[8]	pirísh'anammahach
	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]	pinishtunvêechchas
	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]	pamu'íppa
	its stalk or plant

[11]	pamuppírish
	its foliage

[12]	á'yaach vúr uvêehrímva poo'íifti peehêeraha.
	The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.

[13]	á'yaach vúra uvêehrimva poo'íifti peheeraha'íppa.
	The tobacco plant stands straight up as it grows.

[14]	kôomahich vúra pooveehpîithvuti pamúptiik.
	Its branches just spread a little.

[15]	peheeraha'íppa uum vúra iváxra kúnish koovúra, pu'ássarhara, sákriiv.
	The tobacco plant is all dryish, it is not juicy, it is tough.

[16]	peheeraháaptiik, pa'uh'íppi sákriivsha, puyâamahukich kupeeshpáttahitihara.
	The tobacco-branches, the tobacco-stems are tough; they do not break easily.

[17]	patakikyâahaak pa'uhíppi, tá kunvupáksiiprin.
	When they pick the tobacco stems they cut them off.

[18]	káakum vúra a'vári poo'íifti, káru káakum vúra âapunich.
	Some [tobacco plants] grow low, some high.

[19]	vaa vúra a'varittâapas u'íifti pa'avansa'ávahkamvari tu'íffahaak.
	The highest that they grow is higher than man.

[20]	vaa vúr upifyîimmuti pa'avansa'ávahkamvari tu'íffahaak.
	The highest it ever grows is higher than man.

[21]	vaa uum vúra hitíhaan araréethvaayvari vaa kóo vâaramas-hitih.
	But most of the time they come up to a person's chest.

[22]	vâaramas.
	They are tall.