Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

plerwern • vn • 1 be high tide 2 be incoming tide

Lexicon record # 2631 | Source reference(s): R239 FS(B211)

Sentence examples (2)

1. Plerwer'n.
   High tide.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 30: "Environment." (GT3-30, 2003)

2. 'Enuemee keech plerwern, noohl 'o nuue'moh ho Kohpey.
   Just as the tide came in, we got to Crescent City.

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