Yurok dictionary

lo'ogeyowok' I am black, I am dark-colored (human beings, tools, etc., plants, etc., trees, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc., flat things, house, boats)

menetuelowok' I abduct

menuenowok' I disappear

me'womuenowok' I begin as, I grow from

merwerkseeshonowok' I am clean

muelowok' I die (of an animal)

muencheyowok' I am white

muescheyowok' I am telling the truth

nehlpeyowok' I get into an accident

neee'nowok' I watch, I guard, I look, I look for, I look for

nohsuenowok' I grow up (in a place), I pass my childhood (in a place), I am born (in a place)

nonowok' I fetch, I invite

nooseeshonowok' I am comical, I am funny

noosonowok' I am useful, I am helpful

no'omuenowok'

nuenowok' I grow old, I grow up

penohpeyowok' I am friendly, I am tame, I am good-natured, I am kind, I am kind-hearted

pereyowok' I grow old (of a woman)

peerwerkseeshonowok' I am lovely

pyuerowok' I perform the sacred rites at a dance, I purify myself

rek'eeenowohl they sit

ruerowok' I sing, I boil over, I sing

sa'arkeyowok' I am crazy

sekey' it is hard, it is tough, it is difficult

seeshonowok' I am like, I am so, I am that way

skuenowok' I grow well

skuenowomechek' I grow things well

sonowok' I am, I am like, I behave, I do, I am a kind of

stuenowok' I am middle-aged

sue'lowok' I dash water on

sue'rowok' I splash

sweyokseeshonowok' I am rude

tekuenowomechek' I stick (things) together for planting

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

tenohlkeyowok' I am stingy

tenowenek' I take much of, I take more of

tenowohlek' I talk too much, I gossip, I talk maliciously

tenowohlkek' I talk too much

tenuenowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tenuenowomechek' I planted many (plants)

testoyowok' I am taut, I am tense (of people or things)

teykuenowok' I grow together (with something)

t'uenowok' I grow (of a plant)

wa's'eeshonowok' I am pitiful, I am wretched

wa's'oyowok' I am poor (not rich), I am ordinary

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

'o'lowok' I give (usually food)

'weskweloyowok' I am brave

Dictionary entry

no'omuenowok' • vi o-class • I am old, I endure (of things)

Lexicon record # 2257 | Source references: R231 JE49
Derivation: morphological structure no'om-un-ow-o-

Other paradigm form

3sg no'omuen' R38

Sentence examples (7)

'Owook kerrmeek' kee no'omuen'.
Tomorrow he will be nine years old.

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— Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)
Wek keech no'omuenowok'.
I am so many years old.

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— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-027) (LA138-027, 1980)
Kel' kwelekw k'ee soo no'omuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onew tue' k'ee nee tegeytko'hl kee chpee 'e'goloyew.
As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)
K'ee kwen cho kee no'omuen' k'ee 'wes'onah, kee noohl megeykwele'weyk'.
So long as the heavens endure, then I will mourn.

— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)
Kel' kwelekw k'ee soo no'omuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onah tue' k'ee nee tegeytko'hl kee chpee nee 'e'goloyew.
As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

— Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)
Noohl 'o gam' kue meweemor, K'ee keech no'omuen' k'ee 'wes'onah tue' nekah keech noohl wee' segonkee'.
The old man said, As long as the heavens have endured this ceremony has been performed by us.

— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
Keech no'omuenowohl keech noohl 'we-rahcheen.
They have been friends all their lives.

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