Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

pe-gerk • n • 1 man, male person 2 real man, rich man, independent person, all-grown-up person • Variant pe-gark

Lexicon record # 2492 | Source reference(s): R237 TB1984 FS(B210) TB1984 JE87
Semantic domain: people
Derivation: morphological structure peg-ark

Short recordings (12) | Sentence examples (80)

1. ko-leen pe-gerk "a man" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

2. kue pe-gerk "the man" (spoken by Jimmie James)

3. kue pe-gerk 'ue-paa "the man's father-in-law" (spoken by Jimmie James)

4. pe-gark "man" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

5. pe-gark "man, male person, real man, rich man, independent person, all-grown-up person" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

6. pe-gerk "man, male person, real man, rich man, independent person, all-grown-up person" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

7. pe-gerk "man, male person, real man, rich man, independent person, all-grown-up person" (spoken by Jimmie James)

8. pe-gerk "man" (spoken by Georgiana Trull)

9. pe-gerk "man" (spoken by Archie Thompson)

10. pe-gerk "man, male person, real man, rich man, independent person, all-grown-up person" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

11. se-ga-'a-goy pe-gerk "rich man" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

12. wa'-soy pe-gerk "poor man" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)