Dictionary entry
toh • vn • talk, use language
Lexicon record # 3608 | Source reference(s):
R257 JE57
Semantic
domain: sounds and speaking
Special meanings or uses
won soo toh foreigner [literally, "speaks a different language"] JE57 JE102 [people]
soo toh ko'l language [literally, "the thing they talk"] JE81
Short recordings (5) | Sentence examples (11)
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Chmeyaan... soo toh hoole'moh hehlkeek nee hoolee'm.
Yesterday we talked about the animals that live in the mountains.
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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'Owook kee kem weet mehl toh kee 'ne-saa'agoche'moh.
We'll talk Yurok again tomorrow. — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Tee'neesho mehl 'we-toh?
What are they talking about? — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)
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Tee'neesho kee mehl toh?
What are we going to talk about? — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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To'woh, paas kem wee' mehl toh.
Enough, we won't talk about it anymore. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Keech tene'm won soo toh.
There's a lot of foreigners now. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)
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Nek neemee kego'moyok' teekues 'we-soo toh.
I don't understand Italian.— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences in Berman's "Supplement to Robins" (HB, 1970-1972)
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Sku'y soo ko'moyo'w hes kee nee 'ne-soo toh?
Do you all hear us talking well?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Tee'neeshow mehl toh?
What are they talking about?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Neemee 'wes'onee wee 'emehl toh.
This is not to be talked of openly.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Neemee kom kwenee 'ue-mehl toh.
I do not know what they are talking about.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)