Dictionary entry
pern-cherch • n • dust
Lexicon record # 2695 | Source reference(s):
R240 JE45
Semantic
domain: rocks and inanimate natural objects
Special meaning or use
kue pern-cherch me-ne-kwe-le'm vacuum cleaner YLCB101 [modern things]
Sentence examples (3)
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Kue pern-cherch me-new-kwe-lue-mee'.
Vacuum cleaner (it swallows the dust).
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 24: "Household Vocabulary" (GT3-24, 2003)
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Nek 'och-kaa muehl-sook' kue pern-cherch.
I'm dusting. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)
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'O'lep 'o te-no' pern-cherch.
There is a lot of dust in the house.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)