Chester Pepper: "Coyote and the Sun" (1949)

Audio:  Play

Note: This text was recorded by William Bright without Karuk transcriptions or English free translations. Free translations were provided by Vina Smith (2013).

Text display mode: paragraph | sentence | word | word components

[1]	pihnêefich	uum	vookúphaanik
	coyote	3.SG	he.did.that

Coyote did that.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[2]	vaa	uxúti	pakúusrah	hôoy	tu'aramsîiprivtih
	so	he.was.thinking	the.sun	where	it.is.coming.from

He's wondering where the sun comes from.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[3]	mâam	patusúpaaha	maruk	too	trâa	tuvásip
	uphill	when.it.had.become.day	uphill	he.PERF	look.upward	it.rose

When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[4]	kumáam	vúra	hôoy	upíip	poo'aramsîip	tuvásip
	uphill.from	Intensive	where	he.said	where.it.starts.out	it.rose

He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[5]	xás	uxútih	kíri	vaa	káan	ni'uum	pakáan	kúusrah	hôoy	u'aramsîiprivtih
	then	he.was.thinking	I.wish	so	there	I.arrive	where	sun	where	it.is.starting.out

He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[6]	táma	ukfuukrâaheen
	then	he.climbed.up.from.downhill

Then he went up the hill.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[7]	chavúra	vaa	káan	úum	máruk	ukfúkuvraa
	finally	so	there	3.SG	uphill	he.climbed.over.it

Then he had gotten there, up on top of the hill.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[8]	yée	yáxa	ithyáruk	xás	uvásip	pakúusrah
	well	look!	across	then	it.was.rising.up	the.sun

There was the sun coming up from across (the next hill).

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[9]	kúkuum	vúra	u'áhoo
	again	Intensive	he.walked

Then he was walking again.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[10]	kúkuum	vúra	vaa	káan	u'uum
	again	Intensive	so	there	he.arrived

Then he got there again.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[11]	kúkuum	ithyáruk	xás	tuváasip	pakúusrah
	again	across	then	it.rose	the.sun

Then the sun rose across from him again.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[12]	payêem	vúra	hôoyva	u'aramsîiprivtih	pu'aapunmuti	uxúti	kumâam	vúra	upíip	poo'aramsîiprivtih
	now	Intensive	somewhere	it.came.from.there	he.doesn't.know	he.was.thinking	uphill	Intensive	he.said	that.it.comes.from

He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[13]	víriva	pihnêefich	ukúphaanik
	so	coyote	he.did.it

Coyote did that.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play

[14]	vaa	vúra	kich
	so	Intensive	only

That's all.

Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download |  Play