Dictionary entry
nohl-pey-yok' • 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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Nohl-pey-yohl.
They go to the bathroom.
— Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)
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Keech 'o kwe-see kue cher-'er'y pe 'ue-kolsoo nohl-peyk', mee mos nohl-pe'y tue wee-tee' mehl 'we-te-lek'.
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 'uesoo nohl-peyk'.
So he shits like that.— Georgiana Trull, Bear and Hummingbird (GT1, 2003)
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Tue weet tue we'yk-'oh, mo-cho kee ne-wo'm cher-'ery kol 'em nohl-pe'y, kol-nee 'o pa-'aa-mee' mee kue che-ge-mem 'ue-mes-kwook'.
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 nohl-pey-yom' 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'hl-p'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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Kwe-see' 'o nohl-pe'y mehl 'er'-gerrch; nee-kee wokhl-ke-chee' kue 'we-nohl-peyk'.
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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Kwe-see' 'o ne-wo'm keech nohl-pe'y.
Then he saw her come out of the house.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)
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Kwe-see 'o le'-wo-nee'hl kue chee-nes, 'o nohl-pe'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 nohl-pe'y kue chee-nes.
The young man went outside.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)