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plohkeloyek'

Dictionary entry

plohkeloyek' • vi e-class pass • I am big (round things, plants, etc., body parts, utensils, clothes, houses, boats) I am stout (human beings)

Lexicon record # 2623 | Source reference(s): R239
Derivation: morphological structure pl-ohk-eloye-

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg plohkelee' s/he is fat, s/he is stout, s/he is overweight JE51 JE67

  • collective plohkeloy'm R239

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

Sentence examples (7)

  1. Nue negeee'nes... plohkelee' nee ha'aag.
    Go find some big rocks.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)

  2. Kues kue plohkelonee ha'aag?
    Where is the big rock?

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)

  3. Kue cheykenee huuek plohkelee'.
    The baby is fat.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)

  4. Nuemee plohkelee' kue ha'aag.
    The rock is very big.

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

  5. Kee nee plohkelee', kue nuemee ploh kem ko 'o regop'.
    It's going to be big, the very biggest one was filled.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-033) (LA138-033, 1980)

  6. Wek k'ee 'o'lehl yok 'eenee plohkelee'.
    This house is bigger than that.

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

  7. plohkelonee ha'aag
    big rock

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