Yurok dictionary

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

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chege'royok' I hear with distaste, I hear too often

cheyke'ro'n it is small (trees, etc., houses)

chmekohsok' I knock someone out, I stun

chpege'royok' I ask, I inquire

chpe'royok' I listen, I inquire, I ask

chpurowok' I menstruate

himunowok' I grow fast, I grow well

hlmeyohlkweyowok' I am mean

hlmeyowok' I am mean, I am bad, I am hard to kill, I am nasty

hloypeyok' I taste

hohsepishonowok' I do something shameful

hooluulowok' I carry (a load)

huno'w it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaamunowok' I grow badly

kemoroyowok' I sneak around, I am a sneak thief

kesomuyowok' I am dead

ke'letulowok' I release (involuntarily)

kimchunowok' I have offspring

kishprwok' I am selfish, I guard jealously

knewe'lo'n it is long, it is tall, it is high (plants, trees, body parts, utensils, etc.)

kokonewe'lo'n it is long (a tufted thing, grass, hair, etc.)

krgrnryrwok' I am vain

kwooreyowok' I am slow

k'ensonowok' I take care, I am sensible

k'limowok' I feel ill

lo'ogeyowok' 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'oge'rok' I am black

lo'oge'ro'n it is black, it is charred (trees, sticks, etc.)

menunowok' I disappear

mesi'ro'n he/she is slender, (human beings) it is thin, it is narrow (trees, etc., body parts, clothes, utensils, boats)

mewi'ro'n it is long and smooth

me'womunowok' I begin as, I grow from

mrwrksishonowok' I am clean

mulowok' I die (of an animal)

muncheyowok' I am white

munche'ro'n it is white (tree, tree blossoms, etc.)

muscheyowok' I am telling the truth

myooleyonok' I push aside, I push over

nehlpeyowok' I get into an accident

nekteyok' I admire the cleverness of a person

nii'nowok' I watch, I guard, I look, I look for, I look for

nohsunowok'

noosishonowok' I am comical, I am funny

noosonowok' I am useful, I am helpful

no'omunowok' I am old, I endure (of things)

nunowok' I grow old, I grow up

pekoye'ro'n it is red (round things, tools, etc., plants, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc., houses, boats)

penohpeyowok' I am friendly, I am tame, I am good-natured, I am kind, I am kind-hearted

pereyowok' I grow old (of a woman)

pe'ro'n it is big (houses)

pirwrksishonowok' I am lovely

pyurowok' I perform the sacred rites at a dance, I purify myself

rek'iinowohl they sit

rurowok' I sing, I boil over, I sing

sa'arkeyowok' I am crazy

seke'y it is hard, it is tough, it is difficult

sishonowok' I am like, I am so, I am that way

sitohsok' I splinter, I chip into small pieces of uniform size

skewihlo'n it is smooth, it is flat (of roads, etc.)

skewi'ro'n it is smooth (of trees, etc.)

skunowok' I grow well

sonowok' I am, I am like, I behave, I do, I am a kind of

stunowok' I am middle-aged

su'lowok' I dash water on

su'rowok' I splash

sweyoksishonowok' I am rude

tekuno'w it sticks together, it knits together (of broken bones)

tenohlkeyowok' I am stingy

tenpeyok' I eat much, I eat a lot, I overeat

tenunowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

testoyowok' I am taut, I am tense (of people or things)

teykunowok' I grow together (with something)

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

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

t'unowok' I grow (of a plant)

wa's'ishonowok' I am pitiful, I am wretched

wa's'oyowok' I am poor (not rich), I am ordinary

weno'omunowok' I grow in (a particular) place

'ekonorkwok' I keep safe (used of the spirits in regard to men)

'ohlpeyok' I eat from, I bite

'wahpewok' I marry (of a man)

'weskweloyowok' I am brave

Dictionary entry

nohsunowok' • 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. Nohsuno'w.
    She grew up (there).

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

  2. Srprh 'o nohsunowok', Rek'woy 'o nohsunowok', nekah nahkseyehl, 'ne-le'y.
    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. Tu' wit 'i mehl 'w-ew ku Tege'mur tu' wishtu' ni shoo nohsunowohl.
    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. Tu' wit mehl 'w-ew we'y ku Tege'mur tu' wishtu' ni shoo nohsunowohl.
    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. Tu' wit 'i mehl 'w-ew we'y ku Tege'mur tu' wishtu' ni shoo nohsunowohl.
    And that is why their name is Snowbird, and so they grow like that.

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

  6. 'W-esek'witu, Kwo 'o legohku' k'i niigem? Neskwi ki niki 'o tekti' k'i 'oohl 'o nohsunowoo'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'i kwen kit 'o lunoyohl kwen hewoni 'o nohsunowoni k'i 'wes'onah.
    Wherever I transform to, I come from the heavens.

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

  8. 'W-esek', Chuhl, Tu' witu ki... nohsunowok'.
    (She is) thinking, Yes, that's where I'll live.

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

  9. K'i 'wes'onew 'o wi' nohsu'n.
    She was born in the heavens.

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

  10. ... o' nohsu'n pi'ih 'ap u kwel neki' 'ne-skuyahpelek'.
    ... mussels are from there because I was good.

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

  11. Mishchiks wishtu' o' nohsunowok'.
    I grew up in Mishchiks.

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