Yurok dictionary

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pa-'an'

Dictionary entry

pa-'an' • v imp e-class • there is water

Lexicon record # 2443 | Source reference: R236

Other paradigm form

  • attributive 3sg/3pl pa-'a-nee R236

Special meaning or use

  • kue 'o pa-'a-nee watering place [literally, "where there is water"] R236

Sentence examples (4)

  1. Wee-'eeet 'o pa-'an'.
    There's water there.

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    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)

  2. Noohl kue 'o pa-'a-nee kue nes-kwe-choom'.
    Then you'll come up to that spring.

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    — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)

  3. Kues 'o pa-'an'?
    Where is there water?

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

  4. Wee' 'o pa-'an' kue 'o chye-guuek'-ween' wee' pa-'aahl keech 'o 'okw' kue cheeek.
    That money was there in the water where she was always sitting.

    — Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)