Yurok dictionary
Your search: semantic domain boats and boating
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Broader semantic domain: man-made objects
Related semantic domain(s):
baskets and basket making, clothes and cloth objects, houses and parts of houses, modern things, tools and implements
Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic
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'yoch boat
kyew' capsize
laayo' jump up and down (of a boat), pitch (of a boat)
rechok' I paddle, I row
keneek'wechok' I steer (a boat)
sonchok'
ket'ey be still (of anything movable), be parked, be moored
sloyonekw it slides into water (of a boat)
hegoo' paddle
chyuuek'wech steer (a boat), paddle in back
chyuuek'wechok' I steer (a boat)
hoolechek' I stir (a liquid), I paddle
hoonechek' I paddle upstream
keneek'wech steer (a boat)
ket'ket'ey' lie (of boats)
ke'moh bailer
ke'mohpechek' I bail out
ke'mohpet bail out water
ke'mohpetechek' I bail out water
kerch'erk row a boat
kergerchek' I row
kerker'werk'ws it is cranky (of a boat)
kwere'wey' dugout canoe
kye'wolep' it capsizes, someone turns over (e.g. in a boat or a wagon)
kye'wol' it capsizes
lewoleyetek' I pull (a boat) through shallow water by hand
lewoley' it is pulled through shallow water by hand
mene's tow a boat, pull ashore, boat rope
menoo' pull a boat ashore, pull (anything, not just boats)
meeekeewerh double ended boat
neegerk half a boat, a boat with a part split off
sloyonechkenekw they slide into water (of boats)
werseep braided trim on the front of a boat, made of hazel sticks
'onchok' I paddle in a particular place, as in a formation
'yoch 'ue-poyew prow of a boat
Dictionary entry
sonchok' • vt oo-class • I paddle, I propel a boat • I paddle in a particular direction
Lexicon record # 3208 | Source references: R250 FS(B215)
Semantic
domain: boats and boating
Derivation: morphological structure son-ch-oo-
Sentence examples
(3)
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Poy keech sonchok'.
I passed (someone) in my boat.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-006)
(LA138-006,
1980)
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Kwesee noohl 'o newom' 'w-esek' kwelekw puelekuek wee keet 'we-sonchoyek'.
Then he saw that it was being taken down the river.
— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper"
(LA16-7,
1951)
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Noohl newom' 'w-esek' kwelekw puelekuek keet 'we-sonchoyek'.
Then he saw it begin to be paddled down stream.
— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language
(YL,
1951)