Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain houses and parts of houses

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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, modern things, tools and implements

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'o'lehl house, home

'o'lep house, inside of house

'er'gerrch sweathouse

raahlkah build up, roof, dam, stepping stones

wa'aw floor

'er'gerrk sweathouse, prayer house

kwenomet part of a sweathouse, big door of a sweathouse, "the exit and ventilator", "the place to the left of the exit, likely to be occupied by the 'owner'"

lekwsoo small door of a sweathouse, exit hole, space in front of the door

repokw doorway, porch, front porch

'o'lomah house, enter!, come in!

mechlaa something fire goes through, chimney, stove pipe, fireplace

so'ch'eek roof, ceiling

'o'lomehl house

hlke'mah ladder, stepping stones

kehlkem red clay, floor

kep'ehl there is a housepit, hole in a tree, hole in the ground, housepit

kep'ohl

keskeehl lower side, woodshed anteroom

legaay' doorway, trail, path, retreat, a place where someone or something passes through, the place by the entrance door in the sweathouse

legep'ew storage place

le'wehl house used at the making of the Fish Dam at Kepel

mehlkue part of a Yurok house: "the peripheral part ... at ground level, as contrasted with the sunken center ... It is usually pretty well filled with large food-storage baskets.", "a place in the sweathouse, the corner farthest from both entrance and exit ... There is always a floor of smooth planks or stone slabs."

mekwar' menstrual hut

nergernerhl the interior part of a dwelling-place or sweathouse

perkwery hills, the back of a house, the rear part of a house

rekwom' part of the roof

repoh doorway

sluuek'woh space at the foot of the sweathouse ladder

tepolehl post of a sweathouse, "the place in the sweathouse opposite the exit, and the place of honor", middle (of a sweathouse, a valley, etc.)

tye'womehl corner (in the back of the house)

wa'awor floor

wohlkekw roof

'ee'ee'gah dining room, table

'o'lehl hegoh house builder

'o'lehl 'we-sohchee roof

Dictionary entry

kep'ohln • a hollow, a space, clearing, house pit

Lexicon record # 826 | Source references: R206 FS(B202) FS(LA138-001)
Semantic domain: houses and parts of houses
Derivation: morphological structure kep'-...

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  1. kep'ohl "house pit" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

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