Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: wey- [wey-] • root • end, finish • Variant -wry-

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Search index (10)

wey be closed, come to an end, be finished

weyew be woven, be finished (of baskets)

weyewetek' I weave, I finish (baskets)

weykepek' I stretch

weykok' I finish, I lay down (regulations), I end, I stop, I am done, I wean (a child)

weykomok' I finish, I lay down (regulations)

weyoksek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

weypegar there is an epidemic

weryerch to be done (of a story)

weryerkerhl

Dictionary entry

weryerkerhln • end of brush dance, song, or story

Lexicon record # 4013 | Source references: ES78 JE39 JE49
Derivation: morphological structure wry-rkrhl

Sentence example (1)

  1. Wee't ho weryerkerhl.
    That's where it ended.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)