Dictionary entry
skeryterk'w • n • woman's dress
Lexicon record # 3102 | Source reference(s):
R248
Semantic
domain: clothes and cloth objects
Derivation: morphological structure ...-ek'w-...
Other paradigm form
short form skery R248 JE44
Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (13)
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Tue weet hoole'n... kue 'we-kuechos hegoh 'o... kue 'we-skery, 'we-skery ho hool.
She is wearing the dress her grandmother made.
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Cho' myoote'm kue skeryterk'w.
Put on your dress. — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Cho' myoote'm k'e-skeryterk'w.
Put on your dress. — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Kee myoote'm k'ee skeryterk'w.
You will put on this dress. — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Cho' negohsene'm k'e-skery.
Take off your dress. — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Cho' negohsene'm k'ee skery.
Take off your dress. — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Pkwo'olo' 'ue-'wers skeryterk'w hegoh.
Maple bark makes skirts.— Maggie Pilgrim and Lulu Donnelly, Yurok field notebook 3 (MRH3, 1966)
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K'ee nuemee 'o'lehl kue we'yon kem 'ee nuemee sho'n; nows nek' 'wer-skery woogeen wohlee weykonee skery 'o myoot'.
In the main house the girl was doing the same; she took off her dress and put on another newly finished dress.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Now nek' 'wer-skery.
He took off his dress.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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'We-skery neemee skuye'n.
Her dress is not good.— Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)
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Jennie swechowecho'n 'we-skery
Jennie's dress is ragged— Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)