Dictionary entry
sloychook' • vi oo-class • I descend, I go downhill
Lexicon record # 3148 | Source reference(s):
R249 JE41
Derivation: morphological structure sloy-ch-oo-
Other paradigm forms
3sg sloychok'w MM(YT1019) R249, sloycho'l R249
imperative sg slo'ych'os R249 JE33
'O Slegoych "a place where a trail descends"
Ha'aag 'O Sloyhl "a crag north of 'O Segen"
Sentence examples (7)
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Tue' wee'eeet 'o so sloychok'w.
Then he went down there.
— Georgiana Trull, Moon and His Wife (GT2, 2003)
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Cho sloychoo'm ho pa'aahl!
Go down to the water!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Choolekw so sloychok'.
I climbed down the hill.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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'O'l kas 'ee so sloychok'w reeek'ew, 'o laa'y so puel.
He went just down the river a little ways, he went downstream along the edge of the river.— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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Pechkuek 'ela sloychol', pechkuek 'o 'we-teponek' 'we-hlke'mah.
Far upriver he descended, far upriver where a ladder stood.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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Peesh weeshtue' 'o sloychol'.
There she went down.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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Keech choolekw so 'we-sloychook'.
He got downhill.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)