Dictionary entry
nohlpeyok' • vi o-class • I defecate, I go the bathroom
Lexicon record # 2221 | Source reference(s):
JE16 JVP(JB-01-02)
Semantic
domain: body parts and the body
Sentence examples (12)
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Nohlpeyohl.
They go to the bathroom.
— Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)
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Keech 'o kwesee kue cher'er'y pe 'ue-kolsoo nohlpeyk', mee mos nohlpe'y tue weetee' mehl 'we-telek'.
So the Bear goes to the bathroom something like that, because he couldn't go to the bathroom and that's why he was sick.— Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)
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Tue weet 'ue-soo nohlpeyk'.
So he shits like that.— Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)
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Tue weet tue we'yk'oh, mocho kee newo'm cher'ery kol 'em nohlpe'y, kolnee 'o pa'aamee' mee kue chegemem 'ue-meskwook'.
So today, if you see a bear went to the bathroom, it looks kind of wet because the Hummingbird treated him.— Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)
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Kue nohlpeyom' hes?
Do you want to go to the toilet?— Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)
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Nue no'hlp'es
Go to the toilet!— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)
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Kwesee' 'o nohlpe'y mehl 'er'gerrch; neekee wokhlkechee' kue 'we-nohlpeyk'.
He went out from the sweathouse; it was just getting daylight when he went out.— Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)
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Kwesee' 'o newo'm keech nohlpe'y.
Then he saw her come out of the house.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)
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Kwesee 'o le'wonee'hl kue cheenes, 'o nohlpe'y mehl 'er'gerrk.
And the young man woke up, he went out of the sweathouse.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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'O nohlpe'y kue cheenes.
The young man went outside.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)