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s'e'-goh

Dictionary entry

s'e'-goh • n • madrone tree (Pacific madrone, Arbutus menziesii)

Lexicon record # 3372 | Source reference(s): R252 JE87 MAB17
Semantic domain: plants and trees

Children used s'e'goh bark as sleds (MAB17).

Other paradigm form

  • short form s'e'

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Wee-'eeet 'o te-po'n s'e'-goh.
    There's a madrone growing there.

    Audio 

    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)

  2. Me-wah hee-mar 'o key kue s'e'-goh 'o tep.
    The boy is sitting under the madrone tree.

    Audio 

    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  3. Weet 'o te-po'n s'e'-goh.
    There's a madrone tree growing there.

    Audio 

    — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)

  4. S'e'-goh.
    Madrone.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 29: "Flora/Trees" (GT3-29, 2003)

  5. [Tepoo hes wee' k'ee s'e'-goh?] Paa'...
    [Is the madrone tree a tepoo?] No...

    Audio 

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