Yurok dictionary

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pee'-wo'

Dictionary entry

pee'-wo' • excl • why not!, you're welcome!, sure!, okay

Lexicon record # 2588 | Source reference(s): JE149 YLCB10 YLCB104
Semantic domain: greetings and polite expressions

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Pee'-wo'.
    You're welcome, sure.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)

  2. Pee'-wo'.
    Okay. (I'll do it)

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)

  3. Pee'-wo'.
    Sure (a way to say 'You're welcome').

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 26: "Food Vocabulary" (GT3-26, 2003)

  4. Pee'-wo'.
    Sure; ok.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  5. 'O le's, Pee'-wo'.
    He thought, Okay.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)