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kurn

Dictionary entry

kurn • n • salmon head, the inside of a salmon's head, gristle in salmon's head

Lexicon record # 1132 | Source reference(s): R211 JE115 MRH:APS2:139
Semantic domain: fish and sea life

Other paradigm form

  • plural kurnkurn

Short recording (1) | Sentence example (1)

  1. 'Ue-kurn skuue' 'we-nepue'.
    Salmon head (the meat from inside the salmon head) is good (to eat).

    — Maggie Pilgrim and Lulu Donnelly, Yurok field notebook 3 (MRH3, 1966)