Yurok dictionary

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

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Search index (82)

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' I grow up (in a place), I pass my childhood (in a place), I am born (in a place)

noosishonowok' I am comical, I am funny

noosonowok' I am useful, I am helpful

no'omunowok'

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

no'omunowok'vi o-class • I am old, I endure (of things)

Lexicon record # 2257 | Source references: R231 JE49
Derivation: morphological structure no'om-un-ow-o-

Other paradigm form

  • 3sg no'omu'n R38

Sentence examples (7)

  1. 'Owook krrmik' ki no'omu'n.
    Tomorrow he will be nine years old.

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    — Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)

  2. Wek kich no'omunowok'.
    I am so many years old.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-027) (LA138-027, 1980)

  3. Ke'l kwelekw k'i soo no'omunowoni k'i 'wes'onew tu' k'i ni tegeytko'hl ki chpi 'e'goloyew.
    As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  4. K'i kwen cho ki no'omu'n k'i 'wes'onah, ki noohl megeykwele'weyk'.
    So long as the heavens endure, then I will mourn.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)

  5. Ke'l kwelekw k'i soo no'omunowoni k'i 'wes'onah tu' k'i ni tegeytko'hl ki chpi ni 'e'goloyew.
    As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.

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

  6. Noohl 'o ga'm ku mewimor, K'i kich no'omu'n k'i 'wes'onah tu' nekah kich noohl wi' segonki'.
    The old man said, As long as the heavens have endured this ceremony has been performed by us.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  7. Kich no'omunowohl kich noohl 'we-rahchin.
    They have been friends all their lives.

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