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roowosek'

Dictionary entry

roowosek' • vi e-class • I smoke (a pipe)

Lexicon record # 2909 | Source reference(s): R244 YLCB106

Other paradigm form

  • collective roowose'm R244

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (7)

  1. Kues weno'omuenowoo'm 'o nekomuy k'e-roowosek'?
    At what age did you start smoking?

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  2. Kues no' nekomuy k'e-roowosek'?
    When did you start smoking?

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  3. Kues weno'omue'n 'o nekomuy k'e-roowosek'?
    At what age did you start smoking?

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  4. Kues no'ohl 'o weykoo'm k'e-roowosek'?
    When did you stop smoking?

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  5. Kues no' kee weykoo'm k'e-roowosek'?
    When will you stop smoking?

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  6. 'Ochkaa roowosek'.
    I'm smoking.

    Audio 

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

  7. Heekon kwelekw neemee wee' mehl ho regoowo's 'oohl.
    In former times no one used pipes like this for smoking.

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