Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

ror' • v imp e-class • it snows

Lexicon record # 2886 | Source references: R243 JE123 JE124 YLCB70
Semantic domain: weather

Sentence examples (11)

1. Keech ror'.
   It's snowing.

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   — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-1) (AG-03-1, 2004)

2. Ho ror'.
   It's been snowing.

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   — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-1) (AG-03-1, 2004)

3. Keech ror'.
   It's just now beginning to snow.

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   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)

4. Keech ror'.
   It's snowing.

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   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 30: "Environment." (GT3-30, 2003)

5. Keech ro'r.
   It's (already) snowing.

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   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

6. Keetee ro'r.
   It's going to snow.

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   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

7. 'Emkee, mocho keech 'o wey 'we-sahksah, noohl 'o tenpewe'hl, kue wee' kem 'o sahksah, 'owook koy kwesee keech 'o ror'.
   Then, when the hail stops, then it rains, then it hails again, and then early in the morning it turns to snow.

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   — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-030) (LA138-030, 1980)

8. Keech ror'.
   It is snowing (has started to snow).

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

9. Keet ror'
   It snows.

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

10. Keech ror'.
    It has snowed

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

11. Kwesee' 'o tenpewe'hl kwesee' 'o ror' kwesee' 'o menekoletkohl kue '-uueksoh.
    It rained and it snowed and all his children froze.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)