Dictionary entry
tenpeyok' • vi o-class • I eat much, I eat a lot, I overeat
Lexicon record # 3493 | Source reference(s):
R255 JE11 JE47 YLCB104
Semantic
domain: food, drink, and cooking
Derivation: morphological structure ten-pey-o-
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (9)
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Ko'mee tenpeyok'. Kee mok'w 'ne-sew.
I ate so much I can't breathe.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)
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Keech tenpeyok'.
I overate. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 26: "Food Vocabulary" (GT3-26, 2003)
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Kowecho' ko'mee tenpeyo'm!
Don't eat so much! — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Chmeyaan hes ko'mee tenpeyo'm?
Yesterday, did you eat too much? — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Tenpeyok' wo neemee 'we-ske'wonee, tue weet mehl telek'.
I ate too much of something that wasn't done, and it made me sick. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-040) (LA138-040, 1980)
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Kohchew koma choomoyhl kue kee 'we-rohseyek' kue nepuy 'o ga'm kue meweemor, 'O we'yk'oh cho ko tenpeyo'm 'ohlkuemee 'owook kwelekw kee chpee kohchee ko nepe'm, keekee chmeyonen kesee ko'l 'o nepe'm.
It was six days before the spearing of the salmon when the old man said, Eat plenty today, because tomorrow you will only eat once; it will be evening before you have anything to eat.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Tue' kue 'ne-psech 'eemee nuemee wo tenpe'y kue wee'eeet 'we-chmeyonen.
But my father did not eat much that evening.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Tue' nek 'ne-psech 'eemee nuemee wo tenpe'y.
But my father did not eat very much.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Mehl megenep' 'we-yah mee' ko'mee tegenpe'y.
His stomach aches because he regularly overeats.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)