Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain modern things

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Broader semantic domain: man-made objects

Related semantic domain(s): baskets and basket making, boats and boating, clothes and cloth objects, houses and parts of houses, tools and implements

Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic

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'ahtemar

keromoh turn round (of a wheel, etc., intr.), vehicle, car, automobile

cheek'war chair, stool

muech ro' automobile, car, vehicle

chpeesher'erhl mirror, window, glass

kwerhl image, picture, shadow, doll, movie

keromekeenohl key

pegem knife

hegon spoon, scraper

poykoh flat basket, pan, pot

perhserh rifle, gun

sleryhl handkerchief

sme'ruehl scissors

tkek'war' pot

tkek'wel' pot, pan, kettle

chegeyoh small knife, pocket knife

hooloh rohkuet basketball

keemolenee hooloh waste basket

knetken flint, arrowhead, bullet, cartridge

kergerserh musket

kerker'werk cheek'war rocking chair

kue wa'aw mehl meguehlsonee mop

mehl 'e'ga' mehl muehlsonee eraser

neeneechoy' saw (tool)

nerhserper' shave (trans.), shave oneself, razor

pegemeep wire, iron, steel, metal, sharp stone or hard wood used for making knives

pehlpel' matches

perkerm' club, jar

sar glue, chewing gum

sarkew glue, pitchy substance from pine trees used for glue and for chewing gum, chewing gum

tekwonekws 'ue-kwerhl television

weeel wheel

'ee'ee'gah dining room, table

'o chweeegeen place in the mountains where one regularly sits and prays, telephone

Dictionary entry

'ahtemar • vn • write, draw, make basket designs • n • marking on baskets, paper, writing, drawing, book, newspaper • Variant 'a'temar

Lexicon record # 4193 | Source references: RS(ALK1940:99h) R268 LT(GAR1rev) FS(B221) JE101 JE151
Semantic domains: baskets and basket making; modern things

Other paradigm forms

iterative (double) 'ee'ee'gahtemar R268
short form 'a'

Special meanings or uses

'e'ga' desk [literally, "where one writes"] YLCB22 [modern things]
mehl 'e'ga' pencil YLCB72 [tools and implements; modern things]
'ahtemar neeen' read YLCB106

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (17)

'ahtemar "paper; to write something" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

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'a'temar "write" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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'a'temar "writing" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

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