Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -un- [-uen-] • medial suffix • grow

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Search index (34)

chaa-nuen young shoot of a plant

chke-nue-no-wo-me-chek' I planted only a few (plants), I didn't plant very many (plants)

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

hue-no-wom bring up (children), rear (children), raise (children)

hue-no-wo-me-chek' I bring up, I rear (a child)

hue-no-woo-chek' I grow

hue-no-yohl transform, be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people), change into other beings (of animals, etc. in stories)

hue-no-yohl-ko-yek' be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people)

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

kaa-mue-no-wok' I grow badly

kaa-mue-no-wo-me-chek' I have bad luck with my plants

keem-chue-no-wok' I have offspring

me-nue-no-wok' I disappear

me-see'-ro-nuen a slim man

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

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

no-'o-muen be old, endure (of things)

no-'o-mue-no-wok'

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

sa-'ahl-kuen' it is haunted

skue-no-wok' I grow well

skue-no-wo-me-chek' I grow things well

stue-no-wok' I am middle-aged

te-kue-nehl they are stuck together, they grow together

te-kue-ne-tek' I stick (them) together

te-kue-no-wo-me-chek' I stick (things) together for planting

te-kue-no-yo-hlek' I stick (them) together

te-kue-no-yok' I stick (them) together

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

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

te-nue-no-wo-me-chek' I planted many (plants)

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

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

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

Dictionary entry

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

Lexicon record # 2257 | Source references: R231 JE49
Derivation: morphological structure no'om-un-ow-o-

Other paradigm form

  • 3sg no-'o-muen' R38

Sentence examples (7)

  1. 'Owook kerr-meek' kee no-'o-muen'.
    Tomorrow he will be nine years old.

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    — Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)

  2. Wek keech no-'o-mue-no-wok'.
    I am so many years old.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-027) (LA138-027, 1980)

  3. Kel' kwe-lekw k'ee soo no-'o-mue-no-wo-nee k'ee 'wes-'o-new tue' k'ee nee te-geyt-ko'hl kee chpee 'e'-go-lo-yew.
    As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

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

  4. K'ee kwen cho kee no-'o-muen' k'ee 'wes-'o-nah, kee noohl me-gey-kwe-le'-weyk'.
    So long as the heavens endure, then I will mourn.

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

  5. Kel' kwe-lekw k'ee soo no-'o-mue-no-wo-nee k'ee 'wes-'o-nah tue' k'ee nee te-geyt-ko'hl kee chpee nee 'e'-go-lo-yew.
    As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

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

  6. Noohl 'o gam' kue me-wee-mor, K'ee keech no-'o-muen' k'ee 'wes-'o-nah tue' ne-kah keech noohl wee' se-gon-kee'.
    The old man said, As long as the heavens have endured this ceremony has been performed by us.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  7. Keech no-'o-mue-no-wohl keech noohl 'we-rah-cheen.
    They have been friends all their lives.

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