Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -ow- [-ow-] • intransitive final suffix • be or act in a particular way

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

choyowok' I am nervous, I am sickly

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

hohsepeeshonowok' I do something shameful

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

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

huenowoochek' I grow

huenow' it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaamuenowok' I grow badly

kaamuenowomechek' I have bad luck with my plants

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

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)

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' I am old, I endure (of things)

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'

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

sonowok'vt o-class • I am, I am like, I behave, I do, I am a kind of

Lexicon record # 3216 | Source references: R250 JE8 JE16 JE17 JE79 YSRO479
Derivation: morphological structure son-ow-o-

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg son' it happens

  • collective sonowoom', sonem' R250

  • attributive 3sg/3pl sonenee in this way FS(B215)

  • attributive 3sg/3pl sonowonee kind, sort R250 JE134

  • iterative segon' it happens regularly R250

Special meanings or uses

  • kues son' what is the matter? R250

  • kues sonowom' how are you? R250

  • kwesee wee'eeet son' and that's the way it is JE8

  • skue son' good news JE61 JE94

  • kol' sonowok' I die [literally, "I do something"] R250

Derived phrase or compound

Short recordings (4) | Sentence examples (206)

  1. cheeekol' son' "he or she is unreliable" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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  2. kol' son' "he or she is dead" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

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  3. pel' son' "big doings, celebration" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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  4. wee'eeet son' "it is true" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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