Yurok dictionary

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we-gaa-ney-yoo-chek'

Dictionary entry

we-gaa-ney-yoo-chek'vi e-class • I foretell evil

Lexicon record # 3804 | Source reference(s): R261
Derivation: morphological structure waaney...-ooch-e- + + -eg-

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Tue' ke'l 'o so ko'r nee-mee kee rue-ro-wo'm kee-tee chpee k'e-we-gaa-ney-yoo-chek' k'ee nee te-get-ko'hl kee shoo he-we-che'm.
    But you alone will not be able to sing so that you will just make noise foretelling evil in the canyons (and) so you will live.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  2. Tue' ke'l 'o so ko'r nee-mee kee rue-ro-wo'm keet chpee k'e-we-gaa-ney-yoo-chek' k'ee nee te-get-ko'hl kee shoo he-we-che'm.
    But you alone will not be able to sing so that you will just make noise foretelling evil in the canyons (and) so you will live.

    — Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)