Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain games

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Broader semantic domain: activities

Related semantic domain(s): ceremonies and dances, food, drink, and cooking, greetings and polite expressions, hunting and fishing

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chinomelek' I give away part of my winnings in a game

chokchoop' drum, drumstick

chokchoop'a'r drum, drumstick

chpiigo'repek' I get ready for a race

hookw gamble

hookwchek' I gamble, I play cards

hooloh rohkut basketball

hrgrk'ryen dealer

hrhlprh stick game

hrhlpr' sticks (in stick game)

hrk'ryek' I hide

krguuk

kuurk cross the goal-line, score, as in the stick game

kuurksek' I play the stick game, I score (in the stick game)

minek' I bet

par

parkokwch guessing sticks, playing card

rehl'ep' be concentrated in a given direction, of a wish or a prayer, be tossed in a given direction in the stick game, point in a given direction, of a person

repoy drum song

repoyok' I sing a song with drum beating

rewpenek' I win (in gambling)

rohkun ball

rohsek' I throw, I pitch (a ball)

sroy signal in games

wahtey tossle in stick game

wrhlprh stick game

Dictionary entry

krguukvn impersonal • a round is won (in a game) • See kuurk

Lexicon record # 1066 | Source reference: R210
Semantic domain: games

Sentence example (1)

  1. Kich krguuk.
    That round is over.

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