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merogey'

Dictionary entry

merogey' • vi e-class • it is easy, it is cheap

Lexicon record # 1718 | Source references: R222 JE30 JE47

Sentence examples (6)

  1. Merogey' kue slekwoh.
    The shirt is cheap.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)

  2. Mos kol' sook meroge'y.
    Nothing is cheap.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)

  3. Meroge'y.
    It is cheap.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)

  4. Kwelekw 'o tenem' 'oohl 'o Wehlwkew heekoch so Rek'woy so wohpeyem', 'ohlkuemee weet 'eenee merogey' kee 'we-hloohl 'we-'yoh 'emsee 'ue-pa'ah 'ohlkuemee keech wee' laayekw keech 'o chahchew kee 'we-hloyek' 'yohlkoych' 'o puelekw.
    And then there were a lot of people who crossed over from Wehlkwew to Requa, as it was easier there for them to get their wood and their water now that the path was finished and it was difficult for wood to be fetched at the river mouth.

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

  5. Weet 'eenee merogey' kee 'we-hloohl we-'yoh.
    Thus it was easier for them to get their wood.

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

  6. Tue neskwee keekee 'o merogey' 'w-ohkue'.
    If it is close it will be easy to make.

    — Captain Spott, "The Obsidian Cliff at Rek'woy" (X16, 1907)