Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain games

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Broader semantic domain: activities

Related semantic domain(s): ceremonies and dances, food, drink, and cooking, greetings and polite expressions, hunting and fishing

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hookwchek' I gamble, I play cards

rohkuen ball

rohsek' I throw, I pitch (a ball)

meenek' I bet

hookw

herhlper' sticks (in stick game)

herk'eryek' I hide

chokchoop' drum, drumstick

herhlperh stick game

kerguuek a round is won (in a game)

parkokwch guessing sticks, playing card

rewpenek' I win (in gambling)

sroy signal in games

wahtey tossle in stick game

cheenomelek' I give away part of my winnings in a game

chokchoop'ar' drum, drumstick

chpeeego'repek' I get ready for a race

hooloh rohkuet basketball

hergerk'eryen dealer

kuuerk cross the goal-line, score, as in the stick game

kuuerksek' I play the stick game, I score (in the stick game)

par

rehl'ep' be concentrated in a given direction, of a wish or a prayer, be tossed in a given direction in the stick game, point in a given direction, of a person

repoy drum song

repoyok' I sing a song with drum beating

werhlperh stick game

Dictionary entry

hookw • vn • gamble

Lexicon record # 601 | Source reference: R201
Semantic domain: games

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Heekon kue 'ela hoole'monee neekee chue 'o gookw, kwesee kue 'o'rowee' kem 'o gookwch'.
    Once upon a time the inhabitants of the earth were all gambling, and the dove too was gambling.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)

  2. Heekon kue 'ela hoole'monee neekee chue hookw.
    Once upon a time all who were there were gambling.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)