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'e'gah

Dictionary entry

'e'gah • vn plural • eat in a group, have a meal • n • meal

Lexicon record # 4271 | Source reference(s): R269 JE88
Semantic domain: food, drink, and cooking

Other paradigm form

  • iterative ('o) 'ee'ee'gah place on a trail where you eat FS(JP) • dining room, table R269 YLCB23 YLCB100

Special meaning or use

Derived phrase or compound

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (39)

  1. Nepuy 'ochkaa mehl 'e'gah.
    We're eating salmon.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  2. Paa', mos nepuy mehl 'e'gah.
    No, we're not eating salmon.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  3. Neemee nepuy mehl 'e'gah.
    We're not eating salmon.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  4. Mos ko'l mehl 'e'gah.
    They're not eating anything (at all).

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  5. Neemee 'e'gah.
    They're not eating.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  6. Nekah ko'l mos ... nepuy mehl 'e'gah.
    We never eat salmon.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  7. Kues kee soo nepuy mehl 'e'gah.
    How are we going to eat salmon?

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  8. Tue' kues kee soo nepuy mehl 'e'gah.
    So how are we going to eat salmon?

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)

  9. Chyue kee 'e'gah.
    Let's eat.

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    — Jimmie James, Discussion of boats and boating (JJ-VC-1, 2005)

  10. To'ona'r 'ue-meehl, to'ona'r 'we-chkah, 'o mee' 'e'gah.
    They (frogs) have four legs, they have four feet, so people eat them.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences About Animals (AG-01-2, 2004)

  11. Nepuy mehl 'e'gah. Cho' kue nooychkwe'm!
    We're having some salmon. Come and have some!

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  12. Chue kee 'e'gah.
    Let's eat.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  13. Keech 'ee roo kee 'we-'e'gah.
    It's time to eat.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  14. Keech 'ee so'n hes kee 'we-'e'gah?
    Are they ready to eat?

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  15. Keech 'ee roo kee 'we-'e'gah.
    It's time to eat.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 26: "Food Vocabulary" (GT3-26, 2003)

  16. Chyue kee 'e'gah.
    Let's eat.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 26: "Food Vocabulary" (GT3-26, 2003)

  17. 'E'gah 'ahspeyue'r.
    We're having soup.

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

  18. Keech 'ee roo kee 'we-'e'gah.
    It's time for them to eat.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)

  19. Keech 'ee roo kee 'ne-'e'gah.
    It's time for us to eat.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)

  20. Cho' ko muehlsoo'm kue 'ela 'e'gah
    Wipe the place where we ate.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)

  21. Kelew hes keech 'e'gah?
    Are you all eating?

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)

  22. To's 'ok'w kee mehl 'e'gah... [?] 'oole'm?
    Is there any food at home?

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)

  23. Noohl 'o gee', Kos'elson 'ue-koosee, 'oo, keekee 'e'gah.
    Then they said, Let there be plenty of food.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)

  24. Noohl koypoh 'emkee 'e'gah 'o kue hotel.
    Then in the morning we ate at the hotel.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)

  25. 'Inee kee cho kwelekw tenoo kee mehl 'e'gah k'ee kwenee keet 'we-le'mehl.
    There is bound to be plenty more to eat wherever they are going.

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

  26. Kwesee kue wee 'o nohpewee'm keech 'ela 'e'gah kue nuue'monee.
    The two who had arrived had a meal when they came in.

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

  27. Kohchew keech 'o choomoyhl 'o neskwechok'w 'ue-me'loh mehl kue Heewow 'o tek 'o'lehl 'o Rek'woy nue 'we-chpega'r, To's wee 'no-'o'hl keech kee 'na-'ahspee'moh 'emkee weet kee 'ne-soo 'e'gah?
    Six days passed and a relative of his came from the house at Hiwow in Requa, and asked, May we now drink at home, and eat as we usually do?

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

  28. Keetee 'e'gah.
    They are going to have a meal.

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

  29. Nee ma chkeno' kee mehl 'ne-'e'gah.
    It was very little for us to eat.

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

  30. Keech wey 'we-'e'gah 'esee nuue'm.
    They came after we had finished our meal.

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

  31. Keech nuemee 'e'gah 'o lekwo'hl kue 'o'lehl.
    They were just eating when the house fell in.

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

  32. Keech ho 'e'gah.
    The meal is over.

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

  33. 'Ochkaa pe'm kue we'yk'oh keehl 'e'gah.
    She is now cooking what we shall eat today.

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

  34. Kos'ela koosee 'oo' k'ee keehl 'e'gah.
    May there everywhere be food to eat.

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

  35. 'Inee kee cho tenoo kee mehl 'e'gah k'ee kwenee keet 'we-le'mehl.
    There is bound to be plenty more to eat wherever they are going.

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

  36. 'E'gah mehl nepuy.
    They make a meal off salmon.

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

  37. 'Ochkaa 'e'gah.
    Lots of them are eating.

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)

  38. kechoyn 'we-'e'gah
    daytime eating

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

  39. koy 'we-'e'gah
    morning eating

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