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

Violet Super: Violet's Picture (2004)

Primary participant: Violet Super (speaker)
Date: 2004
Project identifier: VSu-02
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded in Orleans, CA on February 26, 2004; transcribed and translated by William Bright, Vina Smith, Jim Ferrara, and Susan Gehr)

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[1] ithâan mít káru naa kári nîinamich, nanítaat upiip, " sáruk nivâarameesh, ka'tim'íin.
Once, I was also still little, my mother said, "I'm going downhill, to Katimin.
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[2] xasík peeschool upvôonupukat, vaa kúuk i'uuméesh."
When the school has let out, you'll go there (to Katimin)."
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[3] xás panipvôonupukat, xás kári káruk ni'árihroov.
And when it had let out, then I went upriver.
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[4] xás káan nikmárihivrik pihnîich wagon áxak padonkey kunithyúruti.
And I met him, an old man, two donkeys were pulling a wagon.
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[5] xás néepeenti, " chí payôok ihyárihish, payôok áxak padonkeys."
And he told me, "Stand right here, right here by the two donkeys."
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[6] xás naa tá ni'ay, ta néemuusti.
And I was scared, they were looking at me.
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[7] yiimúsich xas nihyárihish.
I stood a little way off.
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[8] xas xára xás axmáy u'ípak papíkchah, Riverside xás uparamsîip.
And after a long time, one day the picture arrived, it arrived from Riverside.
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[9] áta vaa káan ukrêenik papihníich.
I guess that's where the old man lived.
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