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pewomek'

Dictionary entry

pewomek' • vt e-class • I cook

Lexicon record # 2556 | Source reference(s): R238 YLCB105
Semantic domain: food, drink, and cooking

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg pe'w FS(B211) JE34 JE228

  • collective pewomuue'm R238

  • collective pewome'm FS(B211)

  • passive 1sg pewomelek' R238

  • passive 3sg pewomue' R49

  • attributive 3sg pewomeen JE34

  • iterative puuewomek' R238

  • attributive 3sg iterative puuewomeen a cook R238

Special meaning or use

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (12)

  1. 'Iee, skuykok' 'ne-pewomek'.
    Yes, I'm a good cook.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  2. Pekwsue hes pewome'm?
    Will you cook?

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 10: "Comb your hair. Daily routines" (GT3-10, 2003)

  3. Keetee pewomek'.
    I'm going to cook.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 10: "Comb your hair. Daily routines" (GT3-10, 2003)

  4. 'Ochkaa pewomek'.
    I'm cooking.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)

  5. Keetee pewomek' ke'ween.
    I'm going to cook eels.

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    — Minnie Reed, Sentences (MR2) (MR2, 1970s)

  6. Mechee 'ee rek'eeen kue keech 'ue-wey 'ue-pewomue', 'enuemee wogee 'ap key Segep.
    They were sitting by the fire when the cooking was finished, and Coyote sat down right in the middle.

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

  7. 'O gee' cho', Knokseeme'm kue 'woogey son k'e-slekw; kolchee wohlkechee' tue' ko' 'o nerrgerse'm, weet kee chpee 'o nepe'm kue meweemor 'we-romech 'ue-pewomek', 'ohlkuemee wok kem neeko'l 'w-ohkepek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee'eeyen pegerk.
    He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  8. Cho ko heemekoo'm k'e-pewomek'!
    Be quick with your cooking!

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

  9. Ke'l nuemee poyweson k'e-pewomek'.
    You are first class in cooking.

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

  10. Cho' heemekoo'm k'e-pewomek'.
    Hurry up with your cooking!

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

  11. Keetee pewomek'.
    I'm going to cook.

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

  12. Kee pewomek'.
    I'm going to cook.

    — Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)