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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 ple-peen 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. Nue-mee plep' kue ley-yes.
    The snake is very big around (thick) .

    Audio 

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

  3. To' nee-mee nue-mee plep' k'ee te-poo.
    The tree wasn't too big.

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

  4. ple-peen ley-yo-lekws
    big snake

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

  5. po-pe-le-peen ko-weesh
    big sticks

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

  6. ple-peen ko-weesh
    big stick

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