Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain rocks and inanimate natural objects

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Broader semantic domain: physical world

Related semantic domain(s): landscape, place names, astronomy and the sky, weather

Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic

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chaahl sand, beach

chek-che-'eehl prayer rock

chkem-koh flint used in face tattooing

ha-'aag rock

hlkehl land, ground, clay, dirt

hlkey-yom clay

hlke'-mah ladder, stepping stones

hlkohl mud

hlkoo-lon be muddy, mud

kehl-kem red clay, floor

koy-kuuel' hollow rock (lucky)

neee-gem flint, obsidian

pehl-kohl pebbles, gravel

pehl-koo pebble

pe-mo-yekw rock dish, a hollowed rock used in cooking to collect grease drippings

pe-wo-lah terrace, stones used to pave a floor

pey-ken colored mud

pe'-wol soapstone

pon-tet ashes

per-mer-yerh rock used to make pemoyekw, waterproof, water-resistant, rainproof, smooth

pern-cherch dust

re-ko-yoysh white flint used for cutting

s'ey-yoh pounding stone

t'ohl-t'ohl mud, swampy ground

'ehl-kehl clay

'ne-kwol

Dictionary entry

'ne-kwoln dep • my fishing rock, my claim, my title, my fishing place

Lexicon record # 2394 | Source references: R198 JE55 JE112
Semantic domain: rocks and inanimate natural objects

Other paradigm forms

  • 2nd person k'e-kwol your fishing rock

  • 3rd person 'we-kwol his, her, or their fishing rock

  • indefinite me-kwol somebody's fishing rock

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  1. 'we-kwol "his or her fishing rock" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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