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pue'nek'

Dictionary entry

pue'nek' • vi e-class • I fart, I break wind, I expel gas

Lexicon record # 2736 | Source reference(s): FS(B212) JE50 YLCB26
Semantic domain: body parts and the body

Other paradigm forms

  • collective pue'ne'm

  • imperative sg pue'nes break wind! WF(ALK78:35)

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Kowecho' pue'ne'm, mee' swoo'm.
    Stop farting, it stinks.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)

  2. Mos nek pue'nek'.
    I didn't fart.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)

  3. Tee'now pue'n?
    Who farted?

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)

  4. [Tee'neesho wee' kue pue'nos?] Pue'nos kwel weeshtue' mehl hegee' pue'nos... 'ue-pue'nek'.
    [What are pu'nos?] Tumblebugs are called stinkbugs because they break wind.

    Audio 

    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  5. Nek keech pue'nek'.
    I broke wind.

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)