Yurok dictionary

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

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huno'w it boils, it sprouts, it grows

nohsunowok'

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

stunowok' I am middle-aged

hunoyohl transform, be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people), change into other beings (of animals, etc. in stories)

himunowok' I grow fast, I grow well

hunoyohlkoyek' be transformed (of 'woogey after the coming of people)

kaamunowok' I grow badly

skunowok' I grow well

t'unowok' I grow (of a plant)

chaanun young shoot of a plant

chkenunowomechek' I planted only a few (plants), I didn't plant very many (plants)

hunowom bring up (children), rear (children), raise (children)

hunowomechek' I bring up, I rear (a child)

hunowoochek' I grow

kaamunowomechek' I have bad luck with my plants

kimchunowok' I have offspring

menunowok' I disappear

mesi'ronun a slim man

me'womunowok' I begin as, I grow from

no'omun be old, endure (of things)

nunowok' I grow old, I grow up

sa'ahlku'n it is haunted

skunowomechek' I grow things well

tekunehl they are stuck together, they grow together

tekunetek' I stick (them) together

tekunowomechek' I stick (things) together for planting

tekunoyohlek' I stick (them) together

tekunoyok' I stick (them) together

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

tenunowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tenunowomechek' I planted many (plants)

teykunowok' I grow together (with something)

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

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)