Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain health and sickness

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Broader semantic domain: about people

Related semantic domain(s): body parts and the body, feelings and emotions

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chue-lue-sew runny eyes

he-wo-lon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

hlke-kwo-lek' I limp, I am lame, I am crippled

hoo-rue-re-hlek' I feel sick, I feel nauseous, I have nausea

ke-gey doctor, Indian doctor

ke-so-muey corpse, dead person

kwes-kwe-sek' I have a cold, I caught a cold

kwes-'o-yew prayer doctor

kwes-'o-ye-wek' I treat (used of prayer doctor)

kwe-to-yos pear-shaped piece of wood put near fire in wishing ill on someone

kya' sore, ulcer

kya'hl-'oo' open sore, ulcer, open wound

kyer-nee-kerhl sprain

kyer-nee-kert sprain

k'lee-mo-wok' I feel ill

le-pe-hlek' I ache

luue-wo-lo-yek' I cramp, I have a cramp

me-cho-mee' venereal disease, the clap

me-ge-nep' it moves or stretches in an elastic way (like an inchworm, or in a belly-ache or body building), it (someone's stomach) aches

me-ges doctor, white doctor, medical doctor

me-gey-yoo miscarry, die soon after birth, be stillborn, lose children in childbirth

me-kweyr' menstrual hut

mek'-woh pus

me-lo' brush dance officiant, medicine woman

mes-kwok'

me'yk'-wah boil (skin affliction), pus

moy-kek' I die (used of gods, plants, and animals)

mer-serw ointment

mer-ter-lerp' nasal mucus, runny nose

nerr-wert visit the sick

po-'oh get well, heal (intr.), scar, healed sore

pue-no-meehl malicious thoughts (cause of illness in someone else), contamination, bad omen

pue-no-meehl-kok' I am contaminated, I have a pain

roo-wo's he-goh a plant whose leaves are used for colds

sew-kwe-lue-mek' I am bruised

sley-yehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

sleryhl-kerp-'ok' I blow my nose

soo' cascara tree, chittamwood, cascara tree bark used as laxative

te-lek' I am ill, I am sick, I am physically unwell

te-lo-gehl "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing", pain, disease, illness

te-lo-gue-mek' I am in pain, I resent

tee-nuue-mo-nok crazy person

tment-men throb, ache

wey-yok-sek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

wey-pe-geyr there is an epidemic

yo-nee-kwo' become sprained

'o-chek' I sneeze

'o-cho-mek' I sneeze

'o-cho-mok' I sneeze

Dictionary entry

mes-kwok' • vt oo-class • I doctor someone

Lexicon record # 1742 | Source reference: FS(B207)
Semantic domain: health and sickness

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg mes-kwom' GT2

  • passive 1sg mes-kwe-lek' SW2

Sentence examples (9)

  1. Ne-kee' mes-kwo-chek'.
    I am treating you with medicine.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (AG-08-2) (AG-08-2, 2007)

  2. Kue me-ges keech mes-kwo-yek'.
    The doctor is treating me with medicine.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (AG-08-2) (AG-08-2, 2007)

  3. Nek kue me-wah mes-kwok'.
    I'm treating the boy with medicine.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (AG-08-2) (AG-08-2, 2007)

  4. Cho' mes-kwoo'm.
    Give him medicine.

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

  5. Kue che-ge-mem 'o ke-gey. Kwe-see 'o gem', To' nek kee mes-kwok'.
    The Hummingbird was an Indian doctor, and he said, I'll treat you.

    — Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)

  6. Che-ge-mem 'o mes-kwom' kue cher-'ery. 'O hem' che-ge-mem, Cho' huen-kek-som' k'e-luehl!
    Hummingbird treated the bear. Hummingbird said, Open your mouth!

    — Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)

  7. Tue weet tue we'yk-'oh, mo-cho kee ne-wom' cher-'ery kol 'em nohl-pey', kol-nee 'o pa-'aa-mee' mee kue che-ge-mem 'uemes-kwok'.
    So today, if you see a bear went to the bathroom, it looks kind of wet because the Hummingbird treated him.

    — Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)

  8. Keech nee-mokw' nue mehl 'e-la mes-kwe-lek' 'o'-loo-le-kweesh 'ol'.
    There is no village dweller who can make medicine for me.

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)

  9. Keech so-nee-nee hlmey-yor-kwoo-mel' 'ue'-wes, keech mok'ws nue mehl 'e-lo mes-kwel', 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol .
    Thus people are afraid of her, there is nobody who can make medicine for her, Indian.

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)