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megokw

Dictionary entry

megokw • n • dog, barking dog

Lexicon record # 1640 | Source reference(s): WG(WEM264) R220 JE43
Semantic domain: larger carnivores

Short recordings (8) | Sentence examples (19)

  1. Megokw.
    Barking dog.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 31: "Animals" (GT3-31, 2003)

  2. Mocho kue megokw keemee wey 'ue-mokwomokwochek' ko sermerterk'.
    If that dog does not stop barking I shall kill it.

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

  3. Tenem' 'ue-megokw.
    He has lots of dogs.

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)

  4. Tenem' megokw.
    (There are) lots of dogs.

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)

  5. 'Er'gerrk 'o 'we-chkeyek' weehlkwo' 'ue-megokw 'we-tegerew: Keetee knokseechek' mehlkwehl tkeeektoh.
    Then as he slept in the sweat house he dreamed that his dog spoke to him: I am going to leave you because she has punched me with a cane.

    — Robert Spott, Sentences in Spott and Kroeber's Yurok Narratives (YN, 1942)

  6. Newook' megokw.
    I've seen the dog

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  7. Pke'yo'n k'ee megokw.
    This dog is heavy.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  8. Serrper'n k'ee megokw.
    This dog is light.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  9. Skuye'n megokw.
    A dog is good.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  10. Keech megokw wee'.
    He turned into a dog.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  11. Nek kee megokw wee'.
    I'll become a dog.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  12. Megokw wee'.
    He's a dog.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  13. Wee' sooneehlkue'm kue megokw, weeshtue sooneehlkue'm.
    This is what the dog dreamed, this is what he dreamed.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  14. 'Ap neee'no'w 'uemegokw, 'o new keech 'ee 'o koo'op', 'ap new keech koo'op' keech meweemor.
    He looked at his dog, he saw it standing up, the old (dog) was standing up.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  15. Keech tegoo'mehl k'ee megokw so wonekw, keech wer'erger'y kue ho meweemor.
    The dogs went up together, those who were young and the old one.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  16. Keech kuuerka'r k'ee megokw.
    The dog was lying down.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  17. Noo laa'y kerrcherh kue megokw.
    That dog went along the ridge.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  18. 'O neee'no'w megokw.
    He looked at the dog.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  19. 'Ne-megokw keech teykelew nek.
    My dog bit me.

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)