Yurok dictionary

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

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cheykuemek' I bite (a little bite)

chpeenahpuemek' I await

hegoomuemek' I say, I speak to

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

kahseluemek'

komchuemek' I know

ko'oyuemek' I ask, I hire, I request

kweryuemek' I whistle to (someone)

laahohkuemek' I build alongside

laayoluemek' I teach

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

ma'ahskuemek' I spear

menokwoluemek' I swallow, I gulp down

me'lomuemek' I vomit

meek'oluemek' I swallow, I gulp down

mohpuemek' I mourn, I mourn for

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

nahchpuemek' I give, I allow

nekchpuemek' I meet

nooluemek' I love, I protect

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

pyewoluemek' I chew

segoluemek' I startle

sewkweluemek' I am bruised

smeykoluemek' I pine, I miss

sooneehlpuemek' I dream of

speryuemek' I blow a whistle at someone

tegeruemek' I talk, I pray, I make medicine

teloguemek' I am in pain, I resent

teykeluemek' I bite

tmohkeluemek' I break

trekwonuemek' I take a sip

terguemek' I greet, I speak to, I talk to

'ee'ee'gerperyuemek' I am a tell-tale

'ohpuemek' I feed

'ohpuemew be fed

'erperyuemek' I tell news, I tell someone

Dictionary entry

kahseluemek' • 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

  • Nee kahseluemek' kee soch I don't know what to say YN194

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Mos kom, keech kahseluemek'... Wonoye'eek' ho 'ne-chwegeen kee skuey' son' wee' 'o goolem' k'ee '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. Nee kahselewomee' k'ee kwenee '-uuek.
    It is not known whose children they are.

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

  3. Nee kahseluemek' kee soch.
    I don't know what to say.

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