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rue-ro-woo

Dictionary entry

rue-ro-woo • n • song

Lexicon record # 2923 | Source reference: R244

Other paradigm form

  • short form ruer R244

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Kue rue-ro-woo kee kwery-kwer-yo-chek'.
    I'm going to whistle that song.

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

  2. 'Ochkaa chpa'-ro-yok' kue rue-ro-woo.
    I'm listening to music.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)

  3. Kue kel' ko'-mo-yoo-mom rue-ro-woo kwe-lekw keech chpaa-nee wee' mehl re-gue-ro-woom'.
    The songs you sing, they have been singing them for ages.

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