Dictionary entry
markuemek' • vt e-class • I eat up, I eat it all, I exhaust food supply
Lexicon record # 1584 | Source reference(s):
R221 JE11 JE50 JE48
Derivation: morphological structure merk-um-e-
Other paradigm forms
passive 1sg markewpelek' R49 R221
passive 3sg markue' R49 R221 AS1
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (8)
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Cheer'er'y markue'm kue keges.
A bear ate the dried surf fish.
— Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)
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Neekee markuemek'.
I ate everything. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-031) (LA138-031, 1980)
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Keech ma markue' kue 'n-oolehlmee' keech ma tekteg.
My plants got eaten because they were sticking out (of the ground). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-052) (LA138-052, 1980)
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[Tee'neesho wee' kue chohpos?] Chohpos tue' kem megarkue'm 'oohl, 'o rekse'm.
[What are flies?] Fly eats people too, it lays eggs. — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)
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'Ikee markue'm, kem 'o ko'mo'y kem kue perey 'ue-koweesh nege'm.
Then he gobbled it all up, and heard the old woman pick up her stick.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kwelekw mep kego'm 'w-egoyek' mocho kee nahksemee cheykue'm keekee 'o markue'm kwelekw wee'eeet kee nuemee sega'age'y.
He had often heard tell that if a man could take three bites and swallow it all he would be very rich.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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'O ga'm kue meweemor, K'ee kwen cho' keech noohl reeegohsonee nepuy tue' chpee ko'r 'oohl neekee markue'm kue nahche'leesh kee 'we-nepek' k'ee nepuy.
The old man said, All the time that salmon have been speared, only one man has eaten all the salmon he was given to eat.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Markue'm k'ee nepuy kue nahche'leesh kee 'we-nepek'.
He ate up the salmon he was given to eat.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)