Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -o- [-o-] • verb class suffix • o-class verb marker

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Search index (82)

chege'royok' I hear with distaste, I hear too often

cheyke'ron' it is small (trees, etc., houses)

chmekohsok' I knock someone out, I stun

chpege'royok' I ask, I inquire

chpe'royok' I listen, I inquire, I ask

chpuerowok' I menstruate

heemuenowok' I grow fast, I grow well

hlmeyohlkweyowok' I am mean

hlmeyowok' I am mean, I am bad, I am hard to kill, I am nasty

hloypeyok' I taste

hohsepeeshonowok' I do something shameful

hooluuelowok' I carry (a load)

huenow' it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaamuenowok' I grow badly

kemoroyowok' I sneak around, I am a sneak thief

kesomueyowok' I am dead

ke'letuelowok' I release (involuntarily)

keemchuenowok' I have offspring

keeshperwok' I am selfish, I guard jealously

knewe'lon' it is long, it is tall, it is high (plants, trees, body parts, utensils, etc.)

kokonewe'lon' it is long (a tufted thing, grass, hair, etc.)

kergerneryerwok' I am vain

kwooreyowok' I am slow

k'ensonowok' I take care, I am sensible

k'leemowok' I feel ill

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)

lo'oge'rok' I am black

lo'oge'ron' it is black, it is charred (trees, sticks, etc.)

menuenowok' I disappear

mesee'ron' he/she is slender, (human beings) it is thin, it is narrow (trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils, boats)

mewee'ron' it is long and smooth

me'womuenowok' I begin as, I grow from

merwerkseeshonowok' I am clean

muelowok' I die (of an animal)

muencheyowok' I am white

muenche'ron' it is white (tree, tree blossoms, etc.)

muescheyowok' I am telling the truth

myooleyonok' I push aside, I push over

nehlpeyowok' I get into an accident

nekteyok' I admire the cleverness of a person

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)

nooseeshonowok' I am comical, I am funny

noosonowok' I am useful, I am helpful

no'omuenowok'

nuenowok' I grow old, I grow up

pekoye'ron' it is red (round things, tools, etc., plants, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc., houses, boats)

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)

pe'ron' it is big (houses)

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

seetohsok' I splinter, I chip into small pieces of uniform size

skeweehlon' it is smooth, it is flat (of roads, etc.)

skewee'ron' it is smooth (of trees, etc.)

skuenowok' I grow 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

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

tenohlkeyowok' I am stingy

tenpeyok' I eat much, I eat a lot, I overeat

tenuenowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

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

teykuenowok' I grow together (with something)

tkwar' it is short, low (of trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils)

tkwe'ron' it is short, low (trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils)

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

'ekonorkwok' I keep safe (used of the spirits in regard to men)

'ohlpeyok' I eat from, I bite

'wahpewok' I marry (of a man)

'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)

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

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    — Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)

  2. Wek keech no'omuenowok'.
    I am so many years old.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-027) (LA138-027, 1980)

  3. 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)

  4. 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)

  5. 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)

  6. 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)

  7. 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)