Dictionary entry
hloykook' • vt oo-class • I try
Lexicon record # 1543 | Source reference(s):
R219 FS(LA138-011) JE139
Derivation: morphological structure hloy-k-oo-
Other paradigm forms
3sg hloyko'm I4
imperative sg hloo'yk'os R219
Special meaning or use
hlegoykee' a hunter 'shoots at a deer, it doesn't move, he shoots several times, comes up, and sees it's a rock' ALK(RS)
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (9)
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Nek kem kee hloykook'.
I will try too.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-011) (LA138-011, 1980)
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Keech hloykook'.
I have tried. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-011) (LA138-011, 1980)
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Cho' hloykoo'm kee k'e-saa'agochek'.
Try to speak Yurok. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-017) (LA138-017, 1980)
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Hloykoo'm kee k'e-ruerek'.
You're trying to swim. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-031) (LA138-031, 1980)
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Temaloh hloykee'.
We tried for a long time.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Cho hloyko'w k'e-saa'agochue'.
Try to speak Yurok!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Cho' hloykoo'm k'e-saa'agochek'!
Try to talk Yurok!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Hloykook' kee 'n-egook'.
I started to go.— Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)
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Te nue hloyko'm wooneyeek. K'ee 'ue-'werhlkerr' keech muuewolo' soneenep'.
He tried to go uphill. His bones started to feel all burnt.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)