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toomok's

Dictionary entry

toomok's • vi e-class • it is thick (a certain amount), it is wide (a certain amount) (flat things, boats)

Lexicon record # 3680 | Source reference(s): R258
Derivation: morphological structure toom-oks-e-

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Kwesee pa'aahl 'o lehlkoo', tue' kue wee'eeet ... 'o keepuen toy 'o lechkene'm kue ... toomok's kue cement.
    And it fell into the water, and in the winter here they threw big pieces of cement there.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)

  2. Na'mee mechkah toomok's kue laayekw tue' mos cheetaa ko'l sook kee nee 'oyhl.
    The path was two feet wide and nothing at all lay on it.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  3. Kues toomok's k'e-'yoch?
    How wide is your boat?

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)