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yok-mo-kee

Dictionary entry

yok-mo-kee • adv • around, here and there • Variant yo'-mue-kee

Lexicon record # 4146 | Source reference(s): R267 JE7 JE7

Sentence examples (4)

  1. Yok-mo-kee ho t'la.
    It was raining big drops all around.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-030) (LA138-030, 1980)

  2. Yok-mo-kee ho myah 'uemye-gah.
    It jumped around, the one that keeps jumping.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-047) (LA138-047, 1980)

  3. 'O ga'm, Cho' yok-mo-kee ne-geee'-no-wo'm mo-cho kee he-se'm.
    He said, Look round about if you feel like it.

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

  4. Yok-mo-kee soo-tok'w nee wee' kue pe-gerk.
    The man has gone wandering around here.

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