Dictionary entry
pew • vn • cook
Lexicon record # 2552 | Source reference(s):
R238
Semantic
domain: food, drink, and cooking
'O Pe-ge-mue' "a cooking place"
Sentence examples (8)
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'O sloyhl-ke-tom' kue 'o'-lehl, koy-poh keech he-wehl 'o pew.
And she swept the house, in the morning she got up and cooked.
— Georgiana Trull, Moon and His Wife (GT2, 2003)
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'Iee, skuykok' 'ne-pew.
Yes, I'm a good cook. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)
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'Iee, ne-ko-muy 'ne-pew.
Yes, I know how to cook. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)
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Ske-wo'm k'e-pew.
Your cooking smells good. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-015) (LA138-015, 1980)
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Ko'l sook kee-tee 'ne-pew.
I'm going to cook something. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-029) (LA138-029, 1980)
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Keech 'o ho-'op' kee pew kee-tee ko'l nep'.
He had made a fire and was going to cook something to eat.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Two Boys Kill a Donkey" (LA181-16, 1986)
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'O gee' cho', Knok-see-me'm kue 'woo-gey son k'es-lekw; kol-chee wohl-ke-chee' tue' ko' 'o nerr-ger-se'm, weet kee chpee 'o ne-pe'm kue me-wee-mor 'we-ro-mech 'ue-pe-wo-mek', 'ohl-kue-mee wok kem nee-ko'l 'woh-ke-pek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee-'ee-yen pe-gerk.
He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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K'e-pew ske-wo'm.
Your cooking smells good.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)