Bright & Gehr 2005: 144. Polysemy: 'big / large'. Plural: kêːč-as. Cf. the bound stem =kaːm 'big / large' (Plural: =kaːm-sa) [Bright & Gehr 2005: 139], used in compounds instead of kêːč.
Number:6
Word:bird
Karuk:ačβiːβ1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 5.
Number:7
Word:bite
Karuk:=paɾ1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 172. Alternate morphophonological variant of the stem: =paɾa-. Secondary synonym: =ax '(animal) to bite / to rend with the teeth / to kill' (not used of humans, snakes, or insects) [Bright & Gehr 2005: 31].
Number:8
Word:black
Karuk:ikxáɾam-kuniš1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 81. Polysemy: 'black / dark'. Literally 'night-like': ikxáɾam 'night / darkness' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 81], -kúniš (suffix) 'like, similar to' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 153]. Secondary synonyms: kíp ikxáɾam 'black', literally 'like night', kíp imnak 'black', literally 'like charcoal' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 147]. Cf. the bound stem =miːf 'black', used in a number of compounds [Bright & Gehr 2005: 162].
Number:9
Word:blood
Karuk:áːx1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 4. Polysemy: 'blood / red (as a postpound)'.
Number:10
Word:bone
Karuk:ípih1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 101.
Number:11
Word:breast
Karuk:iθβaːy1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 122. Polysemy: 'chest / breast / heart'. Distinct from úːčič 'teat / (woman's) breast' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 238]. Identical with 'heart' q.v.
Number:12
Word:burn tr.
Karuk:=áːh-ka #1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 1. Polysemy: 'to set fire to (something) / to burn (something) / to burn down (as a house)'. Derived from =áːh 'to handle or carry fire' with the suffix -ka 'onto'. Another candidate is =iːn-kú-βaθ 'to burn (something)', derived from =íːn-ka- 'to burn' with the causative suffix -βaθ [Bright & Gehr 2005: 61].
Number:13
Word:claw(nail)
Karuk:axpih1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 34. Glossed as 'nail (of finger or toe)'. Cf. ixupk-ôː-č 'something stuck on flatways (not edgeways) / flat feathering (of an arrow) / fingernail (old name)' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 133-134].
Number:14
Word:cloud
Karuk:p=ikxáɾam-pa1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 186. Derived from =p=ikxáɾam-pa / =p=ikxáɾam-pu 'to get cloudy', lit. 'to be dark again' (=p= 'iterative', =ikxáɾam- 'night / dark', -pa / -pu 'denominative').
Bright & Gehr 2005: 164. Another candidate is =áhoː 'to go / walk / travel / arrive (here)' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 8], translated as 'come' in the English-Karuk index [Bright & Gehr 2005: 294].
Number:17
Word:die
Karuk:=iβ1
Bright & Gehr 2005: 129. Alternate morphophonological variant of the stem: =im-. Cf. also =táːnβa '(du.) to die' [Bright & Gehr 2005: ], =p=éːɾuːn-pa '(pl.) to die' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 180]. Secondary synonym: =taːníha 'to be spoiled / (persons) to die / (the world) to come to an end' [Bright & Gehr 2005: 209].