Yurok dictionary

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kery-choh

Dictionary entry

kery-choh • n • braids, hair wraps, hair tie

Lexicon record # 1056 | Source reference(s): FS(B203)
Semantic domains: ceremonies and dances; clothes and cloth objects

Other paradigm form

  • short form kery R211 JE22 YLCB86

Sentence examples (2)

  1. 'ue-kery.
    Hair wrap.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 21: "Culture" (GT3-21, 2003)

  2. Tue' wee 'o rek-'eeen wen-chokws, ko-leen kue we'-yon kue ho ner-gery-ker-meen tue' wo-'oot nee-kee 'uem-yah 'o 'er-ler-mer-kerhl kue 'ue-kery nows 'o nek' kue ne-pe'-weesh-neg 'ue'-wers wo-nues 'ap nek' kue ne-puy 'oyhl.
    Two women were sitting there, and one was the girl who was helping, and she jumped up and untied her hair tie, and took off the otterskin and put it on the salmon where it lay.

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