Yurok dictionary

Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic

Search index (1)

hl'ekw

Dictionary entry

hl'ekwvn • • Variant hl'ew be broken

Lexicon record # 1554 | Source reference: MM(ES24)

Other paradigm forms

  • repetitive hl'ekwhl'ekw, hl'ekwhl'ew be broken (of several things) JJ(AG-07-1) R219

Sentence examples (11)

  1. Hl'ekwhl'ekw kue 'weryhl.
    The eggs broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  2. Keech hl'ekwhl'ekw kue 'weryhl.
    The eggs broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  3. Hl'ekwhl'ekw.
    (They) broke open.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  4. Chmeyaan kue 'weryhl penpenoh 'o hl'ekwhl'ew kue k'e-wa'aw... cho keemo'hl.
    Yesterday those eggs fell and broke and dirtied your floor.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  5. Hl'ew.
    It broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  6. Kor' chpee kol chpee kue 'weryhl 'o hl'ew.
    Just one egg broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  7. Keech hl'ew.
    It just broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  8. Hl'ekwhl'ew.
    (More than one thing) broke.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  9. Nekee' serrhlerperk' hl'ekwhl'ekw 'weryhl.
    I broke the eggs.

    Audio
    | Download | Password required

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)

  10. K'ee 'weryhl kue kel' nowonemem' keech koosee hl'ekwhl'ew.
    The eggs that you bought are all broken.

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

  11. Keech hl'ew.
    It's broken (a rock).

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)