Yurok dictionary

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po-po-loh

Dictionary entry

po-po-lohvn • be big (round things, muscles)

Lexicon record # 2646 | Source reference(s): YLCB64
Derivation: morphological structure popol-ohk

Representative example

  • Keech po-po-loh kue herh-hlkerh

    The potatoes are big
    AT(JB-02-12)

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Kue pe-gerk po-po-loh 'ue-mokw-sek.
    The man has big muscles.

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

  2. po-po-loh no-so-nos
    big tick

    — Maggie Pilgrim and Lulu Donnelly, Yurok field notebook 3 (MRH3, 1966)