Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -ohp- [-ohp-] • medial suffix • water or liquid, especially if contained or rising • Variants -rhp-, -oh-, -oop-, -rh-

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hewomop' it is warm (of liquids)

hlke'goop' slug, banana slug

hlkoop' slime

hoolohpeenek' I stir

kaamop' it is rough water

ket'op' it is in a pot (food), it is barked (shins)

keyomop' whirlpool

ke'mohpechek' I bail out

ke'mohpet bail out water

ke'mohpetechek' I bail out water

k'ohoolop' a liquid in the process of solidifying

laakaamop' it is rough water on a river

laayop' it flows, it runs (of a liquid)

lohpeenek' I scrape out

lohpee'hl clouds gather, it is cloudy

lerh saliva, spittle

lerhperyehl drool, saliva, spittle

mo'ohpeer fog

mo'ohpeerk be foggy

myop' it is crowded

pekoyop' it is red (water)

plop' it is in spate, it floods

plerwernerp' it is high tide, it is high (of a river)

regohpetek' I fill

regohpeenek' I fill

regop' it is full (of liquid)

rekwoh drink

rekwohpeyok' I drink

rohpeer semen

rohpee'hl it clears (of weather)

seeyoh slide (of a landslide), break (of a wave)

seeyohpeehl slide (of a landslide), break (of a wave)

seeyop' it slides (of a landslide), it breaks (of a wave)

skewop' it is calm (water)

stek'wop' reach a crest of high water, reach the highest point of the tide

swoopeenek' spill, pour, empty (trans.)

swoopee'hl

swoopoyoh burst forth, gush (liquid)

swoop' it spilled

ta'anoop' it is hot, it gets hot (liquid)

tenop be a lot of liquid

tenop' there is a lot of it (liquid)

testop' it coagulates

teekwohpenek' I break a container or a boat

tkop' it is thick (of liquid)

terperyerh be cold (liquids)

terperyerp' it is cold (a liquid)

'ekoyop' it is pliable, it is flexible, it is sticky, it is gummy

'O Keget'oh a place on the sandbar by Big Lagoon

'O Ket'oh Big Lagoon, a town on Big Lagoon

Dictionary entry

swoopee'hlvn • pour with rain, rain hard

Lexicon record # 3340 | Source references: JE66 JE109 YLCB70
Semantic domain: weather
Derivation: morphological structure sw--oopihl-

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Keech swoopee'hl.
    It's really raining.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)

  2. Keech swegoopee'hl.
    It's raining really hard off and on.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

  3. Keech swoopee'hl.
    It's pouring.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

  4. Swoopee'hl.
    It's pouring.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Bipersonal Verbs and Descriptive Verbs (JB-02-08b, 2001)

  5. K'enego'hl keech swoopee'hl, k'enego'hl keech wee' raayor'.
    It repeatedly rains, it repeatedly runs past.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-005) (LA138-005, 1980)