Dictionary entry
chuerp-'ery • vn • comb
Lexicon record # 320 | Source reference(s): R195
Sentence examples (4)
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Kwe-see keech 'e-la wey 'we-chuerp-'ery kue ne-ge-neech, noohl weet 'e-la myah noohl 'ap he'm, Kues cho soo ne-wo-yek'? To's keech mer-mer-yer-werk'?
After the mouse got through combing, he jumped in front of the frog, and said, How do I look? Am I pretty now?— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)
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Kwe-see keech 'e-la wey 'we-chuerp-'ery kue ne-ge-neech, noohl weet 'e-la myah noohl 'ap ha'm, Kues cho soo ne-wo-yek'? Ney, to's keech mer-mer-yer-werk'?
And when the mouse had finished combing her hair, she jumped up and said, How do I look? My dear, am I pretty now?— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Toad and the Mouse" (LA16-6, 1951)
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Noohl 'o ko chuerp-'ery, noohl ne-pe'-weesh-neg 'ue'-wers 'e-mehl ma-'e-po-yew kue 'we'-lep.
Then he combed his hair, and then his hair was tied up with an otterskin.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Cho chuerp-'ery k'er-wer'-yers we'-lep!
Comb your girl's hair!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)