Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

wohkelo' • n • pepperwood (California laurel, Umbellularia californica)

Lexicon record # 3907 | Source reference(s): R264 JE82 JE102 MAB60
Semantic domain: plants and trees

MAB59-60: "Fruit are eaten, the seeds are picked after the pericarp has rotted off, but birds usually eat them first. They can be gathered and buried until the shells rot off. Once the shells were removed, the seeds were baked in the sand with a fire made above. It is also a medicinal plant. The leaves are burned in the house to take bad luck away or the smoke waved over people as they leave for the same reason. IT was put under the bed to rid it of fleas."

Derived phrases or compounds

• Wohkero' "a village on the Klamath, downriver from Wohtekw"

• Wohkelo' 'O Tep "the big ridge downriver of the Requa Inn"

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (3) | Photo

1. wohkelo' "pepperwood" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

2. wohkelo' "pepperwood" (spoken by Jimmie James)

3. wohkelo' "pepperwood" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)