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pegar

Dictionary entry

pegar • vn • dwell, inhabit • Variant pega'r

Lexicon record # 2479 | Source reference(s): R237 JE74
Derivation: morphological structure peg-ark

Special meaning or use

  • wonue kem 'o pegar upstairs [literally, "live up there too"] YLCB101

Derived phrase or compound

  • 'o pegar "ranch (place where Indians live)"

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (5)

  1. Wonekw 'o pegar.
    Upstairs (we live up there too).

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary" (GT3-24, 2003)

  2. Wee' 'o pegar.
    That's where (someone) lives.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-028) (LA138-028, 1980)

  3. Kolchee ko'l 'o pegar kem tue' 'o'lep 'o myah 'w-egolek', Kuech, nee mok'w hes 'oyhl kee nepek'?
    Whenever anyone was at home he leaped into the house and said, Grandmother, isn't there anything lying here for me to eat?

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  4. Neekee koosee mo 'o pegar.
    There was no one at home anywhere.

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

  5. Mo 'o pegar.
    There is no one living here.

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