Yurok dictionary

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pee-'ee-yek'

Dictionary entry

pee-'ee-yek' • vi e-class • I gather mussels

Lexicon record # 2591 | Source reference(s): R238

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg pee-'ee' R238

  • imperative sg pee-'ees R238

  • collective pee-'ee-ye'm R238

  • attributive 3sg/3pl pee-'eeen R238

Derived phrases or compounds

  • 'O Pe-gee' "a beach north of 'Espew"

  • 'O Pe-gee-'ee-yem' "a nearly submerged rock near Elk Point (also called 'O Pegee'eeh)"

  • 'O Pe-gee-'eeh "a nearly submerged rock near Elk Point (also called 'O Pegee'eeyem')"

Sentence example (1)

  1. Pe-gee-'ee-ye'-moh.
    Lots of us were gathering mussels.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)