Yurok dictionary
Your search: semantic domain rocks and inanimate natural objects
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Broader semantic domain: physical world
Related semantic domain(s):
landscape, place names, astronomy and the sky, weather
Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic
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chaahl sand, beach
chekche'eehl prayer rock
chkemkoh flint used in face tattooing
ha'aag rock
hlkehl land, ground, clay, dirt
hlkeyom clay
hlke'mah ladder, stepping stones
hlkohl mud
hlkoolon be muddy, mud
kehlkem red clay, floor
koykuuel' hollow rock (lucky)
neeegem flint, obsidian
pehlkohl pebbles, gravel
pehlkoo pebble
pemoyekw rock dish, a hollowed rock used in cooking to collect grease drippings
pewolah terrace, stones used to pave a floor
peyken colored mud
pe'wol soapstone
pontet ashes
permeryerh rock used to make pemoyekw, waterproof, water-resistant, rainproof, smooth
perncherch
rekoyoysh white flint used for cutting
s'eyoh pounding stone
t'ohlt'ohl mud, swampy ground
'ehlkehl clay
'n-ekwol my fishing rock, my claim, my title, my fishing place
Dictionary entry
perncherch • n • dust
Lexicon record # 2695 | Source references: R240 JE45
Semantic
domain: rocks and inanimate natural objects
Special meaning or use
Sentence examples
(3)
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Kue perncherch menewkweluemee'.
Vacuum cleaner (it swallows the dust).
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary"
(GT3-24,
2003)
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Nek 'ochkaa muehlsok' kue perncherch.
I'm dusting.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing?
Responses"
(GT3-27,
2003)
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'O'lep 'o teno' perncherch.
There is a lot of dust in the house.
— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language
(YL,
1951)
