Dictionary entry
pyewoluemek' • vt e-class • I chew
Lexicon record # 2767 | Source reference(s):
R241 JE30 YLCB105
Semantic
domain: food, drink, and cooking
Derivation: morphological structure pyewol-um-e-
Other paradigm form
imperative sg pye'wolues chew! WF(ALK78:35)
Sentence examples (2)
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Nek 'ochkaa pyewoluemek'.
I'm chewing.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)
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Neemoksue pyewoluemek' kue nerper'w soo seke'y.
I could not chew it the meat was so tough.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)