Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -un- [-uen-] • medial suffix • grow

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chaanuen young shoot of a plant

chkenuenowomechek' I planted only a few (plants), I didn't plant very many (plants)

heemuenowok' I grow fast, I grow well

huenowom bring up (children), rear (children), raise (children)

huenowomechek' I bring up, I rear (a child)

huenowoochek' I grow

huenoyohl transform, be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people), change into other beings (of animals, etc. in stories)

huenoyohlkoyek' be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people)

huenow' it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaamuenowok' I grow badly

kaamuenowomechek' I have bad luck with my plants

keemchuenowok' I have offspring

menuenowok' I disappear

mesee'ronuen a slim man

me'womuenowok' I begin as, I grow from

nohsuenowok'

no'omuen be old, endure (of things)

no'omuenowok' I am old, I endure (of things)

nuenowok' I grow old, I grow up

sa'ahlkuen' it is haunted

skuenowok' I grow well

skuenowomechek' I grow things well

stuenowok' I am middle-aged

tekuenehl they are stuck together, they grow together

tekuenetek' I stick (them) together

tekuenowomechek' I stick (things) together for planting

tekuenoyohlek' I stick (them) together

tekuenoyok' I stick (them) together

tekuenow' it sticks together, it knits together (of broken bones)

tenuenowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tenuenowomechek' I planted many (plants)

teykuenowok' I grow together (with something)

t'uenowok' I grow (of a plant)

weno'omuenowok' I grow in (a particular) place

Dictionary entry

nohsuenowok' • vi o-class • I grow up (in a place), I pass my childhood (in a place), I am born (in a place)

Lexicon record # 2211 | Source references: R230 JE21 JE30 JE63
Derivation: morphological structure nohs-un-ow-o-

Sentence examples (12)

  1. Nohsueno'w.
    She grew up (there).

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

  2. Srperh 'o nohsuenowok', Rek'woy 'o nohsuenowok', nekah nahkseyehl, 'ne-ley'.
    I was born in Srprh, I was born in Rek'woy, three of us, my brothers.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-057) (LA138-057, 1980)

  3. Tue' weet 'ee mehl 'w-ew kue Tege'muer tue' weeshtue' nee shoo nohsuenowohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  4. Tue' weet mehl 'w-ew wey' kue Tege'muer tue' weeshtue' nee shoo nohsuenowohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  5. Tue' weet 'ee mehl 'w-ew wey' kue Tege'muer tue' weeshtue' nee shoo nohsuenowohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)

  6. 'W-esek'weetue, Kwo 'o legohkue' k'ee neeegem? Neskwee kee neekee 'o tektee' k'ee 'oohl 'o nohsuenowoo'mek'
    He was thinking thus, How will they make obsidians? It will stand close to where people live.

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

  7. K'ee kwen keet 'o luenoyohl kwen hewonee 'o nohsuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
    Wherever I transform to, I come from the heavens.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  8. 'W-esek', Chuehl, Tue' weetue kee... nohsuenowok'.
    (She is) thinking, Yes, that's where I'll live.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  9. K'ee 'wes'onew 'o wee' nohsuen'.
    She was born in the heavens.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  10. ... o' nohsuen' pee'eeh 'ap ue kwel nekee' 'ne-skueyahpelek'.
    ... mussels are from there because I was good.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  11. Meeshcheeks weeshtue' o' nohsuenowok'.
    I grew up in Mishchiks.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)