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yu' far downriver, e.g. at Requa
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lexicon ID #7270 | revised Feb 15 2016
yu' • ADV • far downriver, e.g. at Requa
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avnayûuth "a placename near Cappell"
firipámyuusah "a placename, Pecwan or Johnson's (a Yurok town)"
tíhyurukam "placename, near Ti Bar"
xavnamnihichthufyûuth "placename, near Wilson Creek"
yuh'ára "Indian from downriver, i.e. either Yurok or Tolowa, but esp. Tolowa"
yuh'aráriik "Crescent City, Tolowa territory"
yuh'ásip "large bowl-basket used by men for acorn soup"
yuháskuup "surf-fish"
yúhih "Yurok language"
yuhikríhar "large fishnet for catching salmon and sturgeons"
yuhikrihara'urútvaap "poles for big net used to catch sturgeon"
yúhip "placename, near Teneyck Creek"
yuhipthárishrihar "short-tailed weasel"
yuhtîimich "part of Katimin rancheria"
yuhveenachpírish "a plant, fat solomon"
yuhveenich'ifmâar "by-name for spotted skunk"
yuhvíinach "name of a place in Yurok country"
yuhxavramníhak "house site at Katimin"
yunuktîimich "placename, part of Ishi Pishi rancheria"
yupipthárish "a mammal, the marten"
yúruk "downriver (a considerable distance, e.g. at Weitchpec, not as far as yu')"
yúrukam "uphill downriver, i.e. on a height downriver"
yurukpathíkreen "name of a spirit person who lives at the lower end of the world"
yurúkthuuf "Bluff Creek"
yurúkvaarar "downriver Indian, Yurok Indian"
yûuchich "across- and down-river (dimin.)"
yûukam "(a short distance) downriver"
yûukamich "a little ways downriver (dimin.)"
yuunúkamich "uphill downriver"
yûusah "placename near Orleans"
yûuth "downriver and across-stream; downriver across the ocean"
yu'timpeepithváram "Brizard's store in Orleans (an abandoned building in 1950)"
yu'tim'îin "Ike's Falls, a rapids at ameekyáaraam rancheria"
Source: WB 1683, p.401; JPH mat 07:354R
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hâari yú' mít kunikvaránkootihat xuskáamhar. Sometimes they used to go far downriver to buy bows. [Reference: TK 162.36]
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