Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -um- [-uem-] • transitive final suffix

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Search index (37)

hohkumek' I make, I build, I repair, I gather (flowers, etc.), I cause

komchumek' I know

laayolumek' I teach

tegerumek' I talk, I pray, I make medicine

markumek' I eat up, I eat it all, I exhaust food supply

trgumek' I greet, I speak to, I talk to

cheykumek' I bite (a little bite)

noolumek' I love, I protect

teykelumek' I bite

hegoomumek' I say, I speak to

telogumek' I am in pain, I resent

kahselumek'

ko'oyumek' I ask, I hire, I request

'ohpumek' I feed

ma'ahskumek' I spear

mik'olumek' I swallow, I gulp down

nahchpumek' I give, I allow

pyewolumek' I chew

laahohkumek' I build alongside

segolumek' I startle

chpinahpumek' I await

kwryumek' I whistle to (someone)

menokwolumek' I swallow, I gulp down

me'lomumek' I vomit

mohpumek' I mourn, I mourn for

moscheyumek' I pay for services, I pay someone to work

nekchpumek' I meet

noonomcheyumek' I swear at, I attack verbally, I curse

sewkwelumek' I am bruised

smeykolumek' I pine, I miss

soonihlpumek' I dream of

spryumek' I blow a whistle at someone

tmohkelumek' I break

trekwonumek' I take a sip

'i'i'grpryumek' I am a tell-tale

'ohpumew be fed

'rpryumek' I tell news, I tell someone

Dictionary entry

kahselumek' • vt e-class • 1 I do not know 2 I forget

Lexicon record # 701 | Source references: R204 JE57
Derivation: morphological structure kahsel-um-e-

Special meaning or use

  • Ni kahselumek' ki soch I don't know what to say YN194

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Mos kom, kich kahselumek'... Wonoye'ik' ho 'ne-chwegin ki sku'y so'n wi' 'o goole'm k'i 'oohl.
    I don't know, I forget ... I was praying that the Indian people will live well.

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. Ni kahselewomi' k'i kweni '-uuk.
    It is not known whose children they are.

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

  3. Ni kahselumek' ki soch.
    I don't know what to say.

    — Robert Spott, Sentences in Spott and Kroeber's Yurok Narratives (YN, 1942)