Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

tye'wolok' • vt o-class • I burn (trans.) (trash, brush, etc.)

Lexicon record # 3750 | Source reference(s): R260 JE25 JE227

Other paradigm form

• imperative sg tye'wolos burn it! WF(ALK78:40)

Short recordings (4) | Sentence examples (8)

1. Tye'wo'l kue 'ahtemar.
   He set the paper on fire.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

2. Tye'wolook'.
   I set fire to it.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

3. Kue wenchokws tye'wolo' kue 'ahtemar.
   The woman set the paper on fire.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

4. Kue wenchokws tye'wo'l kue 'ahtemar.
   That lady set it on fire.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

5. Tye'woloo'm.
   You set it on fire.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

6. Tye'wolo'm kue 'ahtemar.
   She set the paper on fire.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

7. Kue tye'wolok'.
   I'll go burn that.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)

8. Hewon 'we-newoyhl 'woogey negee'eehl chaahl 'we-laaye'mek' 'o ko tye'wolee' koleen kue 'o'lehl kue 'o megetohlkwonee kue roowo's, na'amee tmohkelee' k'ee roowo's.
   When white men were first seen there were two of them walking along the sands, and at that time one of the houses was burnt down where the pipes were kept, and one pipe was broken in two places.

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