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roree'

Dictionary entry

roree' • v • it snows

Lexicon record # 2883 | Source reference(s): JE40 YLCB76 YLCB113
Semantic domain: weather

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (6)

  1. Tenek kue roree'.
    There's a lot of snow (for example, many snowflakes, or piles or patches of snow).

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    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-1) (AG-03-1, 2004)

  2. Skewokseemek' kue roree' keepuen.
    I like the snow in winter.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)

  3. Keech roree'.
    It's snowing.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 30: "Environment." (GT3-30, 2003)

  4. [Ch'ue'ch'eesh hes wee' k'ee tege'muer?] Tege'muer kwel... roree' wee' 'we-ch'ue'ch'eesh.
    [Is the snowbird a ch'u'ch'ish?] Snowbird is a bird of the snow.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  5. Tomeek' roree'
    The snow is deep

    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences in Jessie Exline's Yurok Dictionary (YD, 1980s)

  6. K'ee segonowonee ko'l roree' hepkwenok.
    (Its skin) was like snow ...

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