Dictionary entry
te-lo-gehl • n • "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing" • pain, disease, illness
Lexicon record # 3463 | Source reference(s):
YM231 WG(WEM43) R254 JE42 JE73 JE101
Semantic
domains: health and sickness; ceremonies and dances
Other paradigm form
short form tel
Sentence examples (8)
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Hl'e-nah-pek' 'ne-te-lo-gehl.
I'm holding pain back.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-012) (LA138-012, 1980)
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Wek keech 'o ro-'o-nep' 'ne-tel. Wek keech 'o ro-'oh 'ne-tel.
My pain is running through here. My pain is is standing here. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-033) (LA138-033, 1980)
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'Ney-yaa-'eekkeech 'o he'-we'hl 'ne-tel.
I have a running (ongoing) pain in my stomach. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-045) (LA138-045, 1980)
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Wek 'o ro-'op' 'ne-te-lo-gehl, pue-no-meehl.
My pain is running (through) here. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-050) (LA138-050, 1980)
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Kee hloo-me-lek' 'ne-tel.
She is taking away my pain.— Robert Spott, Sentences in Spott and Kroeber's Yurok Narratives (YN, 1942)
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Te-lo-gehl kue maat'-p'ohl.
The children are sick.— Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)
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Wo' 'oohl te-log puuek 'we-te-lo-gehl.
This man has deer sickness.— Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)