Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

chey-ke-lek' • vi e-class • I am small (human beings, animals, birds, tools, etc., trees, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms, ropes, etc., flat things, boats)

Lexicon record # 102 | Source reference(s): R190 JE83
Derivation: morphological structure cheyk-ele-

Other paradigm forms

• 3sg chey-ke'l FJ(ALK9:25)

• 3sg chey-ke'n R95

• 3pl chey-ke-nehl R95

• alternative 3pl (nonhuman) che-gey-ke'n

• attributive 3sg chey-ke-nee R95 • small, small person, child

• attributive 3pl chey-ke-nee, che-gey-ke-nee R96

Derived phrase or compound

• chey-ke-nee terk-terrp "hatchet"

Short recordings (11) | Sentence examples (35)

1. che-gey-ke-nee "little, little ones" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

2. chey-ke-nee "little" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

3. chey-ke-nee chyer-'er'y "small bear" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

4. chey-ke-nee ch'ue'ch-'eesh "small bird" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

5. chey-ke-nee her'-k'werh "small rabbit" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

6. chey-ke-nee huuek "small child" (spoken by Georgiana Trull)

7. chey-ke-nee kwe-ge-rue'r "small pig" (spoken by Glenn Moore)

8. chey-ke-nee me-wah "little boy" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

9. chey-ke-nee ske-tew "small finger" (spoken by Georgiana Trull)

10. chey-ke-nee 'oohl "little person" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

11. kue chey-ke-nee kne-tew "the little finger" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)