Yurok dictionary

Morphology search: -um- [-uem-] • transitive final suffix

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Search index (37)

cheykumek' I bite (a little bite)

chpinahpumek' I await

hegoomumek' I say, I speak to

hohkumek' I make, I build, I repair, I gather (flowers, etc.), I cause

kahselumek' I do not know, I forget

komchumek' I know

ko'oyumek' I ask, I hire, I request

kwryumek' I whistle to (someone)

laahohkumek' I build alongside

laayolumek' I teach

markumek' I eat up, I eat it all, I exhaust food supply

ma'ahskumek' I spear

menokwolumek' I swallow, I gulp down

me'lomumek' I vomit

mik'olumek' I swallow, I gulp down

mohpumek' I mourn, I mourn for

moscheyumek' I pay for services, I pay someone to work

nahchpumek' I give, I allow

nekchpumek' I meet

noolumek' I love, I protect

noonomcheyumek' I swear at, I attack verbally, I curse

pyewolumek'

segolumek' I startle

sewkwelumek' I am bruised

smeykolumek' I pine, I miss

soonihlpumek' I dream of

spryumek' I blow a whistle at someone

tegerumek' I talk, I pray, I make medicine

telogumek' I am in pain, I resent

teykelumek' I bite

tmohkelumek' I break

trekwonumek' I take a sip

trgumek' I greet, I speak to, I talk to

'i'i'grpryumek' I am a tell-tale

'ohpumek' I feed

'ohpumew be fed

'rpryumek' I tell news, I tell someone

Dictionary entry

pyewolumek'vt e-class • I chew

Lexicon record # 2767 | Source references: R241 JE30 YLCB105
Semantic domain: food, drink, and cooking
Derivation: morphological structure pyewol-um-e-

Other paradigm form

  • imperative sg pye'wolus chew! WF(ALK78:35)

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Nek 'ochkaa pyewolumek'.
    I'm chewing.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)

  2. Nimoksu pyewolumek' ku nrprw soo seke'y.
    I could not chew it the meat was so tough.

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