Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -ow- [-ow-] • intransitive final suffix • be or act in a particular way

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Search index (70)

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

choyowok' I am nervous, I am sickly

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

hohsepishonowok' I do something shameful

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

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

hunowoochek' I grow

huno'w it boils, it sprouts, it grows

kaamunowok' I grow badly

kaamunowomechek' I have bad luck with my plants

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

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)

menetulowok' I abduct

menunowok' I disappear

me'womunowok' I begin as, I grow from

mrwrksishonowok' I am clean

mulowok' I die (of an animal)

muncheyowok' I am white

muscheyowok' I am telling the truth

nehlpeyowok' I get into an accident

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)

nonowok' I fetch, I invite

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

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

pereyowok'

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

skunowok' I grow well

skunowomechek' I grow things 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

tekunowomechek' I stick (things) together for planting

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

tenohlkeyowok' I am stingy

tenowenek' I take much of, I take more of

tenowohlek' I talk too much, I gossip, I talk maliciously

tenowohlkek' I talk too much

tenunowok' I grow thickly, I grow in clumps

tenunowomechek' I planted many (plants)

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

teykunowok' I grow together (with something)

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

'o'lowok' I give (usually food)

'weskweloyowok' I am brave

Dictionary entry

pereyowok'vi o-class • I grow old (of a woman)

Lexicon record # 2546 | Source references: FS(B211) JE233
Derivation: morphological structure perey-ow-o-

Sentence examples (6)

  1. Ha'p'ehlkok' kiti pereyowok'.
    I'm forgetting lots of things, I'm getting old.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  2. Nek kiti ha'p'ehl sa'eni mi' kiti kich pereyowok'.
    I forget sometimes, because I'm getting old.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  3. Kiti 'ok'w 'n-uuk ke'mi pereyowok'.
    I won't have a child, I'm too old.

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

  4. Kich stune'm, kich stunowok', kich pereyowok', kich mewimork'aayek', kich mi' komtenepek'.
    You're mature, I'm mature, I'm an old woman, I'm an old man, I'm blind.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-028) (LA138-028, 1980)

  5. Kich pereyowok'.
    I am an old woman.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-050) (LA138-050, 1980)

  6. Kit pereyowok'.
    I am getting old (a woman).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-050) (LA138-050, 1980)