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terrluelek'

Dictionary entry

terrluelek' • vt e-class • I make a ridge

Lexicon record # 3731 | Source reference(s): R259

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (2)

  1. 'Enuemee wee' 'we-son tue' na'amee terrlue'l 'o 'we-luehl mee' kee soo komchue'm 'w-esek' wee'eeet kue ho goh.
    It was just like the other, but he made two ridges round its mouth so that he should know that this was the one that he had made.

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

  2. Na'mee terrlue'l 'o 'we-luehl mee' kee sho komchue'm 'w-esek' wee'eeet kue ho goh.
    He put two ridges round its mouth so that he should know that it was this one that he had made.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)