Yurok dictionary

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kery

Dictionary entry

kery • n • braids, hair wraps, hair tie, two braids • See

Lexicon record # 1105 | Source references: R211 JE22 YLCB86
Semantic domains: ceremonies and dances; clothes and cloth objects

Derived phrase or compound

Sentence examples (2)

  1. 'ue-kery.
    Hair wrap.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 21: "Culture" (GT3-21, 2003)

  2. Tue' wee 'o rek'eeen wenchokws, koleen kue we'yon kue ho nergerykermeen tue' wo'oot neekee 'ue-myah 'o 'erlermerkerhl kue 'ue-kery nows 'o nek' kue nepe'weeshneg 'ue-'wers wonues 'ap nek' kue nepuey 'oyhl.
    Two women were sitting there, and one was the girl who was helping, and she jumped up and untied her hair tie, and took off the otterskin and put it on the salmon where it lay.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)