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
Sentence examples
(2)
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Nek 'ochkaa pyewolumek'.
I'm chewing.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing?
Responses"
(GT3-27,
2003)
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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)