Dictionary entry
ploh-ke-lo-yek' • 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 ploh-ke-lee' s/he is fat, s/he is stout, s/he is overweight JE51 JE67
collective ploh-ke-loy'm R239
attributive 3sg/3pl ploh-ke-lo-nee MRH1950-1:16
Sentence examples (7)
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Nue ne-geee'-nes... ploh-ke-lee' nee ha-'aag.
Go find some big rocks.
— Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)
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Kues kue ploh-ke-lo-nee ha-'aag?
Where is the big rock? — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)
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Kue chey-ke-nee huuek ploh-ke-lee'.
The baby is fat. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)
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Nue-mee ploh-ke-lee' kue ha-'aag.
The rock is very big. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Bipersonal Verbs and Descriptive Verbs (JB-02-08b, 2001)
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Kee nee ploh-ke-lee', kue nue-mee ploh kem ko 'o re-gop'.
It's going to be big, the very biggest one was filled. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-033) (LA138-033, 1980)
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Wek k'ee 'o'-lehl yok 'ee-nee ploh-ke-lee'.
This house is bigger than that.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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ploh-ke-lo-nee ha-'aag
big rock— Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)