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perncherch

Dictionary entry

perncherch • n • dust

Lexicon record # 2695 | Source reference(s): R240 JE45
Semantic domain: rocks and inanimate natural objects

Special meaning or use

  • kue perncherch menekwele'm vacuum cleaner YLCB101 [modern things]

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Kue perncherch menewkwoluemee'.
    Vacuum cleaner (it swallows the dust).

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary" (GT3-24, 2003)

  2. Nek 'ochkaa muehlsook' kue perncherch.
    I'm dusting.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)

  3. 'O'lep 'o teno' perncherch.
    There is a lot of dust in the house.

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