Dictionary entry
kom • vn • know
Lexicon record # 1003 | Source reference(s): R209
Special meaning or use
mos kom nek I lost it [literally, "I don't know (where it is)"] JE85
Sentence examples (27)
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Mos kom, keech pe-lo-yek'...
I don't know, I'm too old ...
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Mos nue-mee ske-weg... Nee-mee kom kwen kee sho'n.
It's not very nice outside ... — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Mos kom, keech kah-se-lue-mek'... Wo-no-ye-'eek' ho 'nech-we-geen kee sku'y so'n wee' 'o goo-le'm k'ee 'oohl.
I don't know, I forget ... I was praying that the Indian people will live well. — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Mos kom kwen so'n nahs-chueh.
I don't know what happened last night. — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)
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Noohl keech 'o kom kee 'we-te-no''we-ten.
Then we know we're going to have a rain. — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)
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Noohl 'o kom kee-tee 'we-te-no''we-ten.
Then we know we're going to have a rain. — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)
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Noohl 'o kom kee 'ue-pe'l soo ten.
Then we know it's going to rain hard. — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)
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Mos kom choo'm kue 'nes-'oo-po-no-yek'.
I don't know how many times he hit me. — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)
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Nee-mee kom kwen kee soo ro-'o-ne-chek'.
I don't know how I'm going to run it (e.g., CD player, machine with a lot buttons). — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Emphasis (EJW-01-1-4, 2006)
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Ske-wok kee ko'l kom ke'l.
You want to know. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-2) (AG-03-2, 2004)
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Mos kom hoo-le'm 'o we'y. Ho te-ne'm koh-chee kwe-ge-rue'r. Cheee-ko'l nee hoo-le'm. We'yk-'oh mos ko'l ko ne-wee' kwe-ge-rue'r.
I don't think they're around. There used to be a lot of pigs around. They were all around. Now nobody sees pigs. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-03-2) (AG-03-2, 2004)
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Mos nek kom.
I don't know (that person). — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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Mos nek kom.
I don't understand. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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Mos nek kom mehl 'wech-we-geen.
I don't understand what he's talking about. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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Mos nek kom kue mehl k'ech-we-geen.
I don't understand what you are talking about. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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Mos nek kom.
I don't know. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Mos kom.
I don't know. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Mos kom kee 'wew kue chey-ke-nee.
We don't know what to name the baby. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-05-1a) (JB-05-1a, 2002)
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'Elekw, mos kom.
I don't know. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)
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'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)
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Mos kom loo-tek' 'ne-'e-kah.
I don't where I threw my hat. — Glenn Moore, Miscellaneous Sentences (GM-MISC) (GM-MISC, 2000s)
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Mos nek kom.
I don't know. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)
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To' wee' chpee shoo kom, 'e-see kwe-lekw weet 'e-la te-ne'm.
That's all I know about that, there were a lot of them.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Mos ko'-leesh kom soo knue'-lo-ge'hl k'ee peesh-kah.
No one knows how deep the sea is.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Mos nek kom.
I do not know.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nek ske-wok kee 'ne-kom k'ee kwe-nee nue-mee 'wes-ke-wok kee 'ue-kooych k'ee 'o'-lehl.
I should like to know which the house is that he is so keen to buy.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nee-mee kom kwe-nee 'ue-mehl toh.
I do not know what they are talking about.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)