Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

'elekw • excl • I don't know, just, exactly

Lexicon record # 4236 | Source reference(s): JE80 R269 YLCB11 YLCB27

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (25)

1. 'Elekw.
   I don't know.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)

2. Kues 'elekw 'we-son?
   I wonder why.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)

3. 'Elekw.
   I don't know.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)

4. Kues 'elekw kee so'n k'ee 'wes'onew?
   Who knows which way the weather will turn?

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)

5. Kues 'elekw keekee sergerrhlerh?
   What are we going to do (now)?

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (JB-009_1) (JB-009_1, 2003)

6. T'eeneesho 'elekw keekee sergerrhlerh?
   What are we going to do?

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (JB-009_1) (JB-009_1, 2003)

7. Kues 'elekw keekee serrhlerhlerpee'moh?
   What are we going to do next?

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (JB-009_1) (JB-009_1, 2003)

8. Kues 'elekw kue no'omehlkok'w kue wenchokws.
   I wonder how long that woman's going to stay away.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-2, 2003)

9. 'Elekw, mos kom.
   I don't know.

   — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)

10. 'elekw, keech hoo'yk'ohl.
    I don't know, I forgot.

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

11. Kues 'elekw serrhlerp'?
    I wonder what she's doing.

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

12. 'Elekw mos nek kom tee'now wee' ho serrhl.
    I don't know who did it.

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (LJC-03-1-1b, 2001)

13. Kues 'elekw wee kee 'ne-sonowok'.
    I don't know what's happening to me.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-014) (LA138-014, 1980)

14. Kwesee 'o ge'm, Kues 'elekw 'we-so'n mehl hegee', Kowecho' lekwtemehl?
    And she said, I wonder why they always say, Don't dig?

    — Georgiana Trull, Potato Boy (GT4, 2007)

15. Pekwsue 'elekw megelok' nek.
    Shan't I go too?

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

16. To' 'elekw weet 'ee nuemee 'we-chahchew kee 'ue-meek'olew mee' kwelekw neekee mehl sega'age'y 'oohl.
    Well, it was difficult for anyone to swallow just because a man got rich by doing it.

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

17. Kues 'elekw wee kee 'ne-sonowok'?
    What on earth can I do about it?

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

18. To' 'elekw wee 'ueweyuuen k'e-keemolah.
    You are the worst person I have ever seen.

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

19. Kues 'elekw 'we-son mehl mela teloye'w.
    I wonder why she told a lie.

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

20. Kues 'elekw keech le'm.
    I wonder where they have gone.

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

21. Kues 'elekw 'we-son.
    I wonder how it happened.

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

22. Kues 'elekw sonkohl kue 'yoch?
    What on earth have they done with the boat?

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

23. To' 'elekw wee' 'ueweyuuen to'm k'ee puuek.
    Well, this is the biggest deer ever.

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

24. Keech hes le'm? 'Elekw.
    Have they gone? I don't know.

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

25. Kues kue no'omehlkoo'm? 'Elekw. To' komchuemek'.
    How long are you going to stay? I don't know. I (do) know.

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)