Yurok dictionary

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too-mok's

Dictionary entry

too-mok'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. Kwe-see pa-'aahl 'o lehl-koo', tue' kue wee-'eeet ... 'o kee-puen toy 'o lech-ke-ne'm kue ... too-mok's kue ce-ment.
    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 mech-kah too-mok's kue laa-yekw tue' mos chee-taa 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 too-mok's k'e'-yoch?
    How wide is your boat?

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