Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain ceremonies and dances

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Broader semantic domain: activities

Related semantic domain(s): food, drink, and cooking, games, greetings and polite expressions, hunting and fishing

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chek'wehl prayer seat, "stone 'seats' on mountains ... They are semicircular walls of mortared stones, a yard or two across, three or four feet high", flat place in front of a cliff

chii'sh woodpecker crest, woodpecker scalp

chrhkwek' I am jumping center (in the brush dance)

chrkw jump center (in the brush dance), bird's tail

hegel dance

helomeyek' I dance

hlkr'rmry war dance

hlkr'rmryek' I sing a war dance song

ka'a'n

kehlpeyok' I sing through a dream (of a doctor), I lose control of myself at the doctor dance

keychelew speak the medicine formula on the ninth day of a girl's first menstruation

kreychoh hair ties

kry braids, hair wraps, hair tie, two braids

lepo'm headband "worn by the woman formulist in the Brush Dance ... normally made of ordinary feathers", doctor's forehead band of condor ruff

loogin fish weir, fish dam, the Fish Dam at Kepel

ma'ak head rings, "a stuffed ring of deerskin with three or four of the scarlet [woodpecker] scalps sewn on", "head rings with woodpecker on them", head roll

meli' there is a brush dance

melok' I attend a brush dance

meloo brush dance

mewolep' deerskin dance officiant

mrwrch the dance is ending, the end of a dance

mrwr'y the final dance at the brush dance is danced

munchehl ceremonial dress, dance dress

niigem flint, obsidian

nohpet'ekws dry-salmon maggot or beetle, black bug, weevil, stranger

nohpewihl sing solo at the brush dance, brush dance song, heavy song

no'oma'r title of girl helper at the Fish Dam ceremony

nrrmry sing songs, brush dance song

nrrmryek' I sing songs

nrrmrypeyok' I'm singing (in the brush dance)

plegokw headband of woodpecker scalps, headroll

ponchech gray deer, white deerskin

purchihl brush dance cap

pyeweg perform the white deerskin dance, white deerskin dance

pyurowok' I perform the sacred rites at a dance, I purify myself

pyuuweg perform the deerskin dance, deerskin dance

rechkok' I dance in a particular direction

regey ceremonial headdress

rego' feather, feather for display (as in headband), morning feathers (in brush dance), "simple upright down-head feathers" in the deerskin dance

remoh take part in doctor dance, kick dance, doctor dance, kick dance

remohpoh doctor dance song, doctor song

rurowech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)

rurowok' I sing, I boil over, I sing

srp headband, girl's halo in Jump Dance

srpryr' headband, girl's halo in Jump Dance

syoolah dance in the brush dance (of a girl)

taahl ceremonial singer

telogehl "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing", pain, disease, illness

trrlul bone put through nose of corpse, knife with short hilt

wohlur girl dancer at the Fish Dam ceremony

wonik 'we-legoo jump dance

'e'gu'r a carrying case of ordinary folded deerskin, basket used in jump dance, medicine basket

'o krgry feather camp, dress camp (in Jump Dance)

Dictionary entry

ka'a'n • n • deerhide blanket with hair on it • blanket • deerskin wrap (in the Jump Dance)

Lexicon record # 709 | Source references: RS(ALK1939-2:20a) R204 JE20 YLCB86
Semantic domains: clothes and cloth objects; ceremonies and dances

Other paradigm form

  • short form ka' R204 YLCB100

Special meanings or uses

  • 'woogey 'u-ka' white man's blanket RS(ALK1939-2:20a)

  • 'oohl 'u-ka' Indian blanket RS(ALK1939-2:20a)

Sentence examples (9)

  1. 'u-ka'.
    His/Her blanket.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary" (GT3-24, 2003)

  2. Ka'an.
    Blanket.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary" (GT3-24, 2003)

  3. Meruh chego'onep puuk 'u-'wrs wishtu' 'u-ka'.
    The hide of a five-point deer was his blanket.

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

  4. Che'mekw kich 'o humonepehl, noohl 'o ga'm ku mewimor, Nek ku hlook' ku ma'ahskehl; kich 'i 'we-son ki 'n-egoo'loh; nek ku hlook' ku k'e-ka'.
    They warmed themselves a little, and then the old man said, I will fetch the spear; now we are ready to go; I will bring your blanket.

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

  5. Nek ki negemek' ku 'ne-keyom noohl ko myootek' 'ne-ka'.
    He said, I will take my basket and put on my blanket.

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

  6. Cho 'rlrmrkrhl ku k'e-ka' skeli lekomeyt'es k'e-chewes.
    Untie your blanket and lower your hands.

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

  7. Noohl now 'o nek' ku 'u-ka' noohl 'o ga'm, Hl'os ku nepuy 'o ku wrhlry.
    Then he took his blanket away and said, Pick up the salmon by its tail.

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

  8. 'O no'oh hlo'm chik'war wishtu' 'o rek'iin 'o myootehl ku 'u-ka'.
    He took two chairs, and they sat down and put on their blankets.

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

  9. Cho tenowene'm k'e-ka' mi' niko'hl 'we-cheporeg!
    Take plenty of blankets because it is always cold!

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