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kelok

Dictionary entry

kelok • n • goose (Canada goose, Branta canadensis)

Lexicon record # 771 | Source reference(s): WG(WEM274) R205 JE62
Semantic domain: birds
Derivation: borrowed from Chinook Jargon

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (5)

  1. Cheeeko'l sook nepehl kue kelok.
    Geese eat everything.

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    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-2) (AG-03-2, 2004)

  2. Kelok.
    Goose.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 31: "Animals" (GT3-31, 2003)

  3. [Ch'ue'ch'eesh hes wee' k'ee kelok?] Kelok weet kem woogeen... Kegahselo'm 'oohl kelok. 'esee puelekuek' soo keme'y. 'ue-psech puelekuek sootok'w...
    [Is the goose a ch'u'ch'ish?] Goose is different. Goose is a stranger to people. It goes north to its home. Its father was from the north.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)