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plep'

Dictionary entry

plep' • vi e-class • she is pregnant (women) it is big (trees, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, worms and ropes, etc.)

Lexicon record # 2616 | Source reference(s): R239
Derivation: morphological structure pl-ep-e-

Other paradigm form

  • attributive 3sg/3pl plepeen MRH1950-1:16

Sentence examples (6)

  1. Plep'.
    It's big around.

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Bipersonal Verbs and Descriptive Verbs (JB-02-08b, 2001)

  2. Nuemee plep' kue leyes.
    The snake is very big around (thick) .

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Bipersonal Verbs and Descriptive Verbs (JB-02-08b, 2001)

  3. To' neemee nuemee plep' k'ee tepoo.
    The tree wasn't too big.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)

  4. plepeen leyolekws
    big snake

    — Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)

  5. popelepeen koweesh
    big sticks

    — Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)

  6. plepeen koweesh
    big stick

    — Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)