Phoebe Maddux: Sense Characteristics (1932)

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[1]	pahûut	u'iftakantákkanti	úmxaathti	u'ákkati	umússahitih
	the.way	it.feels.sticky	it.smells.like.(something)	it.tastes.like.(something)	it.looks.like.(something)

"How [tobacco] Feels, Smells, Tastes, and Looks"

(title)

[2]	pahûut	u'iftakantákkantih
	the.way	it.feels.sticky

"How [tobacco] Feels"

(heading)

[3]	xúus	kúnish	ár	u'iftakankôotti	patu'áffishahaak
	smooth	sort.of	person	it.sticks.to.it	when.one.touches.it

Tobacco is smooth and sticky when one feels it.

[4]	pahûut	úmxaathtih
	the.way	it.smells.like.(something)

"How [tobacco] Smells"

(heading)

[5]	káru	vúra	peehêeraha	vúra	imxathakkêem
	also	Intensive	the.tobacco	Intensive	bad-smelling

And tobacco stinks.

[6]	hâari	vúra	axvaahkúhaanaha	patóo	msákkarahaak
	sometime	Intensive	to.be.one.who.makes.head-illness	that.he.has	when.[he].smells.it

Sometimes it makes a person's head ache when he smells it.

[7]	pahûut	u'ákkatih
	the.way	it.tastes.like.(something)

"How [tobacco] Tastes"

(heading)

[8]	peehêeraha	apmáan	ukrixyúpxupti	ára	úux	xára	vúr	apmáan	u'ákkatih
	the.tobacco	mouth	it.has.a.burning.taste	person	bitter	long.time	Intensive	mouth	it.tastes.like.(something)

Tobacco burns a person's mouth, it tastes bad.

[9]	vaa	tá	kunpíip	fâat	vúrava	pa'úuxhaak	úux	ihêeraha	kóo	úux
	so	the	they.say.it	what	just	when.it.is.bitter	bitter	tobacco	as.much.as	bitter

They say when anything tastes bad: "It tastes bad, it tastes as bad as tobacco."

[10]	nanittáat	mít	upôovôo?ihat	pafâat	vúrava	úuxhaak	iheeraháxiit	kyúnish	kyóo	uux
	my.mother	near.past	?	anything	just	when.it.is.bitter	green.tobacco	sort.of	as.much.as	bitter

My mother used to say when anything tasted bad: "It tastes as bad as green tobacco."

[11]

hâari

tá

kunpakátkat

payaaf

pakári

kuntákkiritihat

kári

xás

tá

kunpiip

ihêeraha

vúra

kári

kyóo

úux

payaaf

sometime

the

they.take.a.taste.of.it

the.acorn.dough

that.still

when.they.were.leeching.it

then

then

the

they.say

tobacco

Intensive

then

as.much.as

bitter

the.acorn.dough

Sometimes when they taste of acorn dough, when they are still soaking it, they say: "The acorn dough tastes as bad as smoking tobacco yet."

[12]	pahûut	umúsahitih
	the.way	it.looks.like.(something)

"How [tobacco] Looks"

(heading)

[13]	payáan	vúr	u'íiftihaak	puxxích	thúkkinkunish	peheeraha'íppa	pachím	uimtúppeeshahaak	vaa	kári	taváttavkunish
	that.recently	Intensive	when.it.is.growing	very.much	blue-green	the.tobacco.plant	that.already	when.will.be.ripe	so	then	light-colored

When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored.