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' 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' 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'

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

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)