Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain games

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Broader semantic domain: activities

Related semantic domain(s): ceremonies and dances, food, drink, and cooking, greetings and polite expressions, hunting and fishing

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hookw-chek' I gamble, I play cards

roh-kuen ball

roh-sek' I throw, I pitch (a ball)

mee-nek' I bet

hookw

herhl-per' sticks (in stick game)

herk-'er-yek' I hide

chok-choop' drum, drumstick

herhl-perh stick game

ker-guuek a round is won (in a game)

peyr-kokwch guessing sticks, playing card

rew-pe-nek' I win (in gambling)

sroy signal in games

wah-tey tossle in stick game

chee-no-me-lek' I give away part of my winnings in a game

chok-choop-'eyr' drum, drumstick

chpeee-go'-re-pek' I get ready for a race

hoo-loh roh-kuet basketball

her-gerk-'er-yen dealer

kuuerk cross the goal-line, score, as in the stick game

kuuerk-sek' I play the stick game, I score (in the stick game)

peyr

rehl-'ep' be concentrated in a given direction, of a wish or a prayer, be tossed in a given direction in the stick game, point in a given direction, of a person

re-poy drum song

re-po-yok' I sing a song with drum beating

werhl-perh stick game

Dictionary entry

hookw • vn • gamble

Lexicon record # 601 | Source reference: R201
Semantic domain: games

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Hee-kon kue 'e-la hoo-le'-mo-nee nee-kee chue 'o gookw, kwe-see kue 'o'-ro-wee' kem 'o gookwch'.
    Once upon a time the inhabitants of the earth were all gambling, and the dove too was gambling.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)

  2. Hee-kon kue 'e-la hoo-le'-mo-nee nee-kee chue hookw.
    Once upon a time all who were there were gambling.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)