Chester Pepper: "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (1957)
Primary participants: Chester Pepper (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-12
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 198-199, Text
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| [1] |
vaa |
ukúphaanik |
pihnêefich |
uum |
| so |
he.did |
coyote |
3.SG |
| [2] |
mâam |
pakúusra |
tuváruprav |
| uphill |
the.sun |
it.rose |
|
The sun rose just uphill. |
| [3] |
uxútih |
kumâam |
úkrii |
pakúusrah |
| he.thinks |
uphill.from.here |
it.lives |
the.sun |
|
He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here." |
| [4] |
xás |
uxútih |
vaa |
tá |
káan |
úkrii |
pakúusrah |
| then |
he.thinks |
so |
PERF |
there |
it.lives |
the.sun |
|
He thought, "The sun's right there." |
| [5] |
pookfúkuvraa |
yánava |
ithyáruk |
xás |
tuváruprav |
pakúusrah |
| when.he.climbed.over |
visible |
across |
then |
it.rose |
the.sun |
|
When he climbed up over (the ridge), he saw the sun was rising across (above
the next ridge). |
| [6] |
chavúra |
pumahára |
hôoy |
poo'aramsîiprivtih |
| finally |
he.does.not.see |
where |
it.came.from |
|
In the end he didn't find where it came from. |
| [7] |
víriva |
pihnêefich |
ukúphaanik |
| thus |
coyote |
he.did |