Yurok dictionary

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

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Search index (34)

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

no'omuen be old, endure (of things)

no'omuenowok'

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

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)