Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -un- [-uen-] • medial suffix • grow

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huenow' it boils, it sprouts, it grows

nohsuenowok' I grow up (in a place), I pass my childhood (in a place), I am born (in a place)

no'omuenowok' I am old, I endure (of things)

stuenowok' I am middle-aged

huenoyohl

heemuenowok' I grow fast, I grow well

huenoyohlkoyek' be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people)

kaamuenowok' I grow badly

skuenowok' I grow well

t'uenowok' I grow (of a plant)

chaanuen young shoot of a plant

chkenuenowomechek' I planted only a few (plants), I didn't plant very many (plants)

huenowom bring up (children), rear (children), raise (children)

huenowomechek' I bring up, I rear (a child)

huenowoochek' I grow

kaamuenowomechek' I have bad luck with my plants

keemchuenowok' I have offspring

menuenowok' I disappear

mesee'ronuen a slim man

me'womuenowok' I begin as, I grow from

no'omuen be old, endure (of things)

nuenowok' I grow old, I grow up

sa'ahlkuen' it is haunted

skuenowomechek' I grow things well

tekuenehl they are stuck together, they grow together

tekuenetek' I stick (them) together

tekuenowomechek' I stick (things) together for planting

tekuenoyohlek' I stick (them) together

tekuenoyok' I stick (them) together

tekuenow' it sticks together, it knits together (of broken bones)

tenuenowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tenuenowomechek' I planted many (plants)

teykuenowok' I grow together (with something)

weno'omuenowok' I grow in (a particular) place

Dictionary entry

huenoyohlvn • transform, be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people) • change into other beings (of animals, etc. in stories) • Variant huemoyo'

Lexicon record # 682 | Source references: MM2 R203 JE29
Derivation: morphological structure h-unoy-...

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Weeshtue soosek', 'w-wesek', Kues tue nek kee so huenoyohl?
    I think, Where shall I be transformed?

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  2. K'ee kwen keet 'o luenoyohl kwen hewonee 'o nohsuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
    Wherever I transform to, I come from the heavens.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  3. Tue weeshtue 'o soonok's 'w-esek', Kues tue nek kee so huenoyohl?
    And so she thinks, Where shall I be transformed?

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)