Julia Starritt: "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (1957)

Primary participants: Julia Starritt (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-16
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 202-205, Text 16
Additional contributor: Kouros Falati (annotator)

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[1]	káan	pihnêefich	úkrii	muyeeripáxvu	xákaan	kun'iin	muhrôoha	támit	u'ívat
	there	coyote	he.lives	his.daughter	both	they.lived	his.wife	already.in.the.past	she.died

Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died.

[2]	xás	payeeripáxvu	tóo	kêechha	xás	yâamach	tu'íifship
	then	the.daughter	she	be.big	then	pretty	she.grew.up

And the girl got big, and she grew up pretty.

[3]	xás	papihnîich	upíimni	pamú'aramah
	then	the.old.man	he.falls.in.love	his.child

And the old man fell in love with his child.

[4]	xás	uxús	xâatik	nipêer	chími	yárarahi
	then	he.thinks	it's.better	I.tell.her	soon	get.married!

And he thought, "Let me tell her, 'Get married!

[5]	vaa	káan	ávansa	úkrii	páykuuk	yíiv	úkrii	patuyshipriha'ápapkam
	that	there	man	he.lives	over.there	far	he.lives	on.the.other.side.of.the.mountain

A man lives there, he lives far off there, on the other side of the mountain.

[6]	kúna	vúra	kúnish	tá	arákaas
	in.addition	Intensive	sort.of	PERF	old.man

But he's sort of old.'"

[7]	xás	úpeenti	pamú'aramah	kúna	vúra	yáv	peekupeekrêehitiheesh
	then	he.is.saying.to.her	his.child	in.addition	Intensive	good	that.you.will.be.living.in.that.way

And he told his child, "But you will live well.

[8]	xâatik	vúra	yárarahi	iim	tée	kêechha
	it's.better	Intensive	get.married!	2sg.	PERF	be.big

You should get married, you've gotten big.

[9]	káru	naa	tá	nipihnîichha
	also	1sg.	PERF	I.become.old

And I've gotten old.

[10]	hôoy	íf	akáray	îin	xuus	i'éethtiheeshap
	where	truly	who	TOPIC	thought	will.be.taking.it.of.you

Nobody will take care of you.

[11]	naa	tá	nipihnîichha
	1sg.	PERF	I.become.old

I've gotten old."

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[12]	xás	upíti	chémi
	then	she.is.saying	all.right

And she said, "All right."

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[13]

kúna

vúra

pamukrívraam

vaa

vúra

umúsahiti

panunukrívraam

koovúra

pootâayhiti

iinâak

vaa

vúra

umúsahiti

ôok

iinâak

pootâayhitih

in.addition

Intensive

his.house

that

Intensive

it.looks.like

our.house

all

that.they.are.many

indoors

that

Intensive

it.looks.like

here

indoors

that.they.are.many

"But his house looks just like our house, everything that is inside looks just like what is inside here.

[14]	káru	uum	naa	vúra	neemúsahiti	pa'ávansa
	also	3.SG	1sg.	Intensive	he.looks.like.me	the.man

And he looks just like me, the man.

[15]	pamutiiv	káru	vúra	aaxkúnishichas	vaa	vúra	pánaa	neemúsahiti	pananítiiv
	his.ear	also	Intensive	reddish	that	Intensive	as.I	it.looks.like.me	my.ear

His ears are reddish too, just like my ears look.

[16]	vúra	pusakeemvárihveeshara	koovúra	vaa	umúsahiti	panunú'uup
	Intensive	you.won't.be.homesick	all	that	it.looks.like	our.possessions

You won't be homesick, everything looks like our things.

[17]	chími	vâarami
	soon	leave

Go on.

[18]	kúna	vúra	páykuuk	yíiv	áhoon	payôok	xáyfaat	i'áhoo	peempaheepshûunkinich	kâarim	ikupheesh
	in.addition	Intensive	over.there	far	go.travel	right.here	don't!	you.go	the.short.road	bad	you.will.do

But go by the far way yonder, don't travel (by the way) right here, on the short road, you'll do badly.

[19]	hâari	vúra	xasík	napimusarûukvutiheesh
	sometime	Intensive	then.(future)	you.will.visit.me.here

You can come back to see me sometime."

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[20]	xás	ta'ítam	uvâaramaheen
	then	so	she.left

And so she left.

[21]

xás

poo'úum

yánava

koovúra

vaa

umúsahiti

pamukun'îikam

umúsahitih

víri

íf

kákach

poopíti

vaa

umúsahitih

then

when.she.arrives

visible

all

that

it.looks.like

that.their.outdoors

it.looks.like

so

truly

daddy

how.he.said

that

it.looks.like

And when she arrived, she saw that everything looked like it looked outside their house, it was true how daddy said it looked.

[22]	xás	poovôonupuk	pa'ávansa	víri	vúra	vaahyâach	pamu'áka
	then	when.he.comes.outdoors	the.man	so	Intensive	exactly.that	her.father

And when the man came out, he was just like her father.

[23]	xás	ta'ítam	vaa	vúra	káan	ukrêeheen
	then	so	that	Intensive	there	she.lived

And so she lived there.

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[24]	xás	upíti	chími	pami'áka	pimúsan
	then	he.is.saying	soon	your.father	go.to.see.again

Then (her husband) said, "Go see your father again."

[25]	xás	upvâaram
	then	she.leaves.again

So she left.

[26]	xás	kúkuum	vaa	vúra	káan	u'ípahoo	míta	kûukam	u'arávuukat
	then	again	that	Intensive	there	she.goes.back	near.past	in.that.direction	she.started.from

And she traveled again the way she had come there.

[27]	xás	poo'íipma	yánava	pihnîich	úkrii
	then	when.she.gets.back	visible	old.man	he.sits

And when she got back, she saw the old man sitting.

[28]	xás	tu'aachíchha	patóo	pma	pamú'aramah
	then	he.was.happy	when.he.had	see.again	his.child

And he was happy when he saw his child.

[29]	xás	upíti	vúra	if	koovúra	vaa	umúsahiti	ôok	pananú'uup	panini'ávan	mukrívraam
	then	she.is.saying	Intensive	true	all	that	it.looks.like	here	our.things	my.husband	his.house

And she said, "It's true, everything looks like our things here, in my husband's house."

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[30]	xás	kúkuum	upvâaram
	then	again	she.leaves.again

Then she left again.

[31]	xás	upíti	tá	na'ûuri	páykuuk	pani'ahoonkôoti	yiiv
	then	she.is.saying	PERF	I.am.tired	over.there	that.I.go.travel	far

And she said, "I'm tired of going by the far way yonder."

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[32]	xás	upíip	papihnîich	vúra	káan	ípahoo	kúkuum	xáy	húun	i'íin
	then	he.says	the.old.man	Intensive	there	go.back	again	let.not	harmful	have.something.happen.to.you

And the old man said, "Just go there again! Something might happen to you (otherwise).

[33]	puyâakhara	pa'ôokukam
	not.a.good.place	this.side

This side is a bad place.

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[34]	xás	ta'ítam	upithvásip	pamukrívraam
	then	so	he.packs.up.again	his.house

So then he packed up his house.

[35]	xás	uum	píshiip	tu'íipma
	then	3.SG	first	he.got.back

And he got back first.

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[36]

xás

pâanpay

xás

uxús

naa

nixúti

napikshayvûunishti

yukún

koovúra

vaa

umúsahiti

panunú'uup

káru

uum

vúra

vaa

umúsahiti

panini'áka

then

after.while

then

she.thinks

1sg.

I.am.thinking

he.is.lying.to.me

you.see

all

that

it.looks.like

our.possessions

also

3.SG

Intensive

that

he.looks.like

my.father

Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father."

[37]

víri

payêem

panipimúsarahaak

víri

vaa

ník

kári

nimáheesh

peekrívraam

káan

vúra

u'iikráhaak

so

now

when.I.visit

so

that

a.little

then

I.will.see

if.the.house

there

Intensive

when.it.is.standing

Now when I go back to see (my father), then I'll see if the house is standing there."

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[38]	xás	ta'ítam	upvâaramaheen
	then	so	she.left.again

And so she went again.

[39]	xás	upíti	chémi
	then	she.is.saying	all.right

And she said, "All right.

[40]	chôora	nupxákaanpi	payêem
	let's.go	let's.go.back.together	now

Let's go back together now."

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[41]	xás	upíti	pûuhara	iim	vúra	pácheech	ipvâarami
	then	he.is.saying	no	2sg.	Intensive	all.alone	go.back!

And he said, "No, you go back alone."

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[42]	xás	ta'ítam	upvâaramaheen
	then	so	she.left.again

And so she left again.

[43]	xás	pamu'ífuth	xás	upithvásip	pamukrívraam
	then	behind.her	then	he.packs.up.again	his.house

And behind her then he packed up his house.

[44]	xás	ta'ítam	pa'asiktávaan	uparatánmaahpa
	then	so	the.woman	she.turns.back

So then the woman turned back.

[45]	yánava	vúra	púfaat	peekrívraam	púfaat	vúra	thêera
	visible	Intensive	nothing	the.house	nothing	Intensive	not.lie

She saw there was no house, nothing was there.

[46]	xás	ta'ítam	u'áharamaheen
	then	so	she.chased.him

And so she chased him.

[47]	yánava	káan	áraar	u'áhootih	ikrívraam	u'iithvútih
	visible	there	human	he.is.travelling	house	he.is.packing

She saw a person travelling there, he was carrying a house.

[48]	yánava	panini'áka
	visible	my.father

"I see it is my father!"

[49]	xás	ta'ítam	úkfuukiraheen	xás	ta'ítam	vúra	ukpákpak
	then	so	she.grabbed.him	then	so	Intensive	she.chops.him.up

So then she grabbed him, and she chopped him up.

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[50]

xás

pihnêefich

upíti

vaa

vúra

káru

vúra

pa'áraar

uumkun

kunkúpheesh

pánaa

tá

nikuupha

then

coyote

he.is.saying

that

Intensive

also

Intensive

the.human

they

they.will.do

as.I

PERF

I.do

And Coyote said, "The people will do just like that too, like I did."