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swoo-pee'hl

Dictionary entry

swoo-pee'hl • vn • pour with rain, rain hard

Lexicon record # 3340 | Source reference(s): JE66 JE109 YLCB70
Semantic domain: weather
Derivation: morphological structure sw--oopihl-

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Keech swoo-pee'hl.
    It's really raining.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)

  2. Keech swe-goo-pee'hl.
    It's raining really hard off and on.

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

  3. Keech swoo-pee'hl.
    It's pouring.

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

  4. Swoo-pee'hl.
    It's pouring.

    Audio 

    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Bipersonal Verbs and Descriptive Verbs (JB-02-08b, 2001)

  5. K'e-ne-go'hl keech swoo-pee'hl, k'e-ne-go'hl keech wee' raa-yo'r.
    It repeatedly rains, it repeatedly runs past.

    Audio 

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-005) (LA138-005, 1980)