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wok

Dictionary entry

wok • pron • he, she, it [third person singular] here, there [used adverbially]

Lexicon record # 3924 | Source reference(s): R264

Sentence examples (19)

  1. Wenos wok kwehl hlkyorkwe'moh... wee' 'o ko melonee.
    Come over here and we'll watch (them dancing in) the brush dance.

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. Wok laayekah.
    It's draped around (something).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-007) (LA138-007, 1980)

  3. Wok lootek'.
    I threw it there.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-010) (LA138-010, 1980)

  4. Wok nek'.
    S/he put it there (carefully).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-010) (LA138-010, 1980)

  5. Noohl wok mehl slaameyoh.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-037) (LA138-037, 1980)

  6. Keech wok loo.
    Somebody's been thrown there (in the water).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-049) (LA138-049, 1980)

  7. [Tee'neesho wee' kue cheycheyes?] Cheycheyes hes wee'? ... Tegeykelue'm 'oohl wok... 'o negohsehl wee' tegeykelew.
    [What are mosquitoes?] Mosquitoes? They bite people, wherever they bite it'll swell up.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  8. Te'no'y kue locho'm, wok 'ee so chyuuek'we'n
    The toad was offended so he just went to sit down over in the corner somewhere.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)

  9. Kwesee 'o te'no'y kue locho'm, kwesee wok 'ee so chyuuek'we'n.
    The toad was annoyed at this, and sat down at one side.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Toad and the Mouse" (LA16-6, 1951)

  10. 'O gee' cho', Knokseeme'm kue 'woogey son k'e-slekw; kolchee wohlkechee' tue' ko' 'o nerrgerse'm, weet kee chpee 'o nepe'm kue meweemor 'we-romech 'ue-pewomek', 'ohlkuemee wok kem neeko'l 'w-ohkepek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee'eeyen pegerk.
    He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.

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

  11. Wok 'ne-let.
    That is my sister

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

  12. Wok nee sho 'oolo'.
    He stood aside there.

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

  13. Wok nee shoo 'oolo'.
    He stood there as he was.

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

  14. Kwesee wok 'ee sho chyuuek'we'n.
    So she sat on one side there.

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

  15. Wok cho nee sho 'oolo'!
    Stand over there!

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

  16. Wok cho nee shoo 'oolo'!
    Stand there as you are!

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

  17. Wok nee chyuuek'we'n.
    He sat there.

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

  18. Wok 'ook'.
    I'm living over there.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)