Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -o- [-o-] • verb class suffix • o-class verb marker

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che-ge'-ro-yok' I hear with distaste, I hear too often

chey-ke'-ron' it is small (trees, etc., houses)

chme-koh-sok' I knock someone out, I stun

chpe-ge'-ro-yok' I ask, I inquire

chpe'-ro-yok' I listen, I inquire, I ask

chpue-ro-wok' I menstruate

hee-mue-no-wok' I grow fast, I grow well

hlmey-yohl-kwey-yo-wok' I am mean

hlmey-yo-wok' I am mean, I am bad, I am hard to kill, I am nasty

hloy-pey-yok' I taste

hoh-se-pee-sho-no-wok' I do something shameful

hoo-luue-lo-wok' I carry (a load)

hue-now' it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaa-mue-no-wok' I grow badly

ke-mo-ro-yo-wok' I sneak around, I am a sneak thief

ke-so-muey-yo-wok' I am dead

ke'-le-tue-lo-wok' I release (involuntarily)

keem-chue-no-wok' I have offspring

keesh-per-wok' I am selfish, I guard jealously

kne-we'-lon' it is long, it is tall, it is high (plants, trees, body parts, utensils, etc.)

ko-ko-ne-we'-lon' it is long (a tufted thing, grass, hair, etc.)

ker-ger-ner-yer-wok' I am vain

kwoo-rey-yo-wok' I am slow

k'en-so-no-wok' I take care, I am sensible

k'lee-mo-wok' I feel ill

lo-'o-gey-yo-wok' I am black, I am dark-colored (human beings, tools, etc., plants, etc., trees, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc., flat things, house, boats)

lo-'o-ge'-rok' I am black

lo-'o-ge'-ron' it is black, it is charred (trees, sticks, etc.)

me-nue-no-wok' I disappear

me-see'-ron' he/she is slender, (human beings) it is thin, it is narrow (trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils, boats)

me-wee'-ron' it is long and smooth

me'-wo-mue-no-wok' I begin as, I grow from

mer-werk-see-sho-no-wok' I am clean

mue-lo-wok' I die (of an animal)

muen-chey-yo-wok' I am white

muen-che'-ron' it is white (tree, tree blossoms, etc.)

mues-chey-yo-wok' I am telling the truth

myoo-ley-yo-nok' I push aside, I push over

nehl-pey-yo-wok' I get into an accident

nek-tey-yok' I admire the cleverness of a person

neee'-no-wok' I watch, I guard, I look, I look for, I look for

noh-sue-no-wok'

noo-see-sho-no-wok' I am comical, I am funny

noo-so-no-wok' I am useful, I am helpful

no-'o-mue-no-wok' I am old, I endure (of things)

nue-no-wok' I grow old, I grow up

pe-ko-ye'-ron' it is red (round things, tools, etc., plants, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc., houses, boats)

pe-noh-pey-yo-wok' I am friendly, I am tame, I am good-natured, I am kind, I am kind-hearted

pe-rey-yo-wok' I grow old (of a woman)

pe'-ron' it is big (houses)

peer-werk-see-sho-no-wok' I am lovely

pyue-ro-wok' I perform the sacred rites at a dance, I purify myself

rek-'eee-no-wohl they sit

rue-ro-wok' I sing, I boil over, I sing

sa-'eyr-key-yo-wok' I am crazy

se-key' it is hard, it is tough, it is difficult

see-sho-no-wok' I am like, I am so, I am that way

see-toh-sok' I splinter, I chip into small pieces of uniform size

ske-wee-hlon' it is smooth, it is flat (of roads, etc.)

ske-wee'-ron' it is smooth (of trees, etc.)

skue-no-wok' I grow well

so-no-wok' I am, I am like, I behave, I do, I am a kind of

stue-no-wok' I am middle-aged

sue'-lo-wok' I dash water on

sue'-ro-wok' I splash

swey-yok-see-sho-no-wok' I am rude

te-kue-now' it sticks together, it knits together (of broken bones)

te-nohl-key-yo-wok' I am stingy

ten-pey-yok' I eat much, I eat a lot, I overeat

te-nue-no-wok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tes-to-yo-wok' I am taut, I am tense (of people or things)

tey-kue-no-wok' I grow together (with something)

tkweyr' it is short, low (of trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils)

tkwe'-ron' it is short, low (trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils)

t'ue-no-wok' I grow (of a plant)

wa's-'ee-sho-no-wok' I am pitiful, I am wretched

wa's-'o-yo-wok' I am poor (not rich), I am ordinary

we-no-'o-mue-no-wok' I grow in (a particular) place

'e-ko-nor-kwok' I keep safe (used of the spirits in regard to men)

'ohl-pey-yok' I eat from, I bite

'wah-pe-wok' I marry (of a man)

'wes-kwe-lo-yo-wok' I am brave

Dictionary entry

noh-sue-no-wok' • vi o-class • I grow up (in a place), I pass my childhood (in a place), I am born (in a place)

Lexicon record # 2211 | Source references: R230 JE21 JE30 JE63
Derivation: morphological structure nohs-un-ow-o-

Sentence examples (12)

  1. Noh-sue-no'w.
    She grew up (there).

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)

  2. Srperh 'o noh-sue-no-wok', Rek'-woy 'o noh-sue-no-wok', ne-kah nahk-sey-yehl, 'ne-ley'.
    I was born in Srprh, I was born in Rek'woy, three of us, my brothers.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-057) (LA138-057, 1980)

  3. Tue' weet 'ee mehl 'wew kue Te-ge'-muer tue' weesh-tue' nee shoo noh-sue-no-wohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  4. Tue' weet mehl 'wew wey' kue Te-ge'-muer tue' weesh-tue' nee shoo noh-sue-no-wohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  5. Tue' weet 'ee mehl 'wew wey' kue Te-ge'-muer tue' weesh-tue' nee shoo noh-sue-no-wohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

    — Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)

  6. 'We-sek'wee-tue, Kwo 'o le-goh-kue' k'ee neee-gem? Nes-kwee kee nee-kee 'o tek-tee' k'ee 'oohl 'o noh-sue-no-woo'-mek'
    He was thinking thus, How will they make obsidians? It will stand close to where people live.

    — Captain Spott, "The Obsidian Cliff at Rek'woy" (X16, 1907)

  7. K'ee kwen keet 'o lue-no-yohl kwen he-wo-nee 'o noh-sue-no-wo-nee k'ee 'wes-'o-nah.
    Wherever I transform to, I come from the heavens.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  8. 'We-sek', Chuehl, Tue' wee-tue kee... noh-sue-no-wok'.
    (She is) thinking, Yes, that's where I'll live.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  9. K'ee 'wes-'o-new 'o wee' noh-suen'.
    She was born in the heavens.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  10. ... o' noh-suen' pee-'eeh 'ap ue kwel ne-kee' 'neskuey-yah-pe-lek'.
    ... mussels are from there because I was good.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)

  11. Meesh-cheeks weesh-tue' o' noh-sue-no-wok'.
    I grew up in Mishchiks.

    — Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)