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

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 my fishing rock, my claim, my title, my fishing place

Dictionary entry

per-mer-yerh 1 n • rock used to make pemoyekw 2 vn • waterproof, water-resistant, rainproof, smooth

Lexicon record # 2692 | Source references: R240 JE33 JE109 AF(JB-02-09)
Semantic domain: rocks and inanimate natural objects
Derivation: morphological structure pemey-rhk

Representative examples

  • Prmer-yerh son'

    It is smooth
    R240
  • Kol-nee per-meryh kue ha-'aag

    The rock is smooth
    AF(JB-02-09)

Short recordings (2)

  1. per-mer-yerh 'wech'-wo-na' "rain coat" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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  2. per-mer-yerh 'we-'e-kah "rain hat" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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