Yurok dictionary

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'oo'

Dictionary entry

'oo' • vn • be, exist

Lexicon record # 4415 | Source reference(s): R271

Other paradigm form

  • iterative 'e'-goo' grow (of plants, in a habitat) R271

Sentence examples (13)

  1. 'Ne'-yoh 'naa-wech 'oo'.
    Wood on my back.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Iteratives, Passives, and Repetitives (JB-02-14a, 2001)

  2. Wek 'ne-merw. Cho' ne-ge-me'm k'er-merw, wek keech 'oo' k'ee merw-perh.
    This is my lunch. Take your lunch, it's lunchtime.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-024) (LA138-024, 1980)

  3. 'Oo' 'ner'-weryhl.
    I have eggs.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-045) (LA138-045, 1980)

  4. 'Oo' 'ne'-weryhl.
    I have eggs.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-045) (LA138-045, 1980)

  5. [Pishkaahl 'o koh hes wee' k'ee nerr-ger'?] 'Ee, peesh-kaahl wee' nee 'oo' k'ee nerr-ger'. Mos kee mo-'ok'w k'e-no-'oy 'o ha-'a-go-nehl 'o peesh-kaahl.
    [Is the barnacle a pishkaahl 'o koh?] Yes, barnacles live along the ocean. You couldn't go without shoes on the rocks by the ocean.

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

  6. [Hoore'mos hes wee' k'ee k'err'?] K'err' tue' kem me-ges-kwe-ta' mo-cho ko'l 'oo' nue-ne-puy keech 'ue-mer-kue'm. K'err' weesh-tue' soo kee'-mo-le'n. Keech 'ue-ke'm.
    [Is the crow a hoore'mos?] Crow will eat it up, wherever there's food he'll eat it up. That's why crow is no good. He steals.

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

  7. Ske-leek nee 'oo' wee-'eeet tue' kue ce-ment kue ho werh-per-yerh 'o kem mee' 'ee keech mo-'ok'w 'o yo' 'ohl-kue-mee kee le-wo-lah mos chee-taa ko'l sook koh-che-wohl.
    It's down below, the cement that used to be a bridge, because it's not there anymore, because ... they couldn't catch anything at all.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)

  8. Kwe-lekw wo'hl tue' weesh kee hee-men koh-che-wohl mo-cho wee' ske-lee keech wo' 'oo' 'o yo'.
    Well, they could catch it fast when it was down there.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)

  9. 'O'lehl 'o lehl-ke-lee' tue' kert-'erk-see-no-nee ha-'aag week-tue' 'oo'.
    Each was buried in one of the houses; there was a stone (box) with a lid inside.

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

  10. Ke'l kwe-lekw kee shoo-se'm k'ee kwen cho kee yue-no-wo-nee kee skue-ne'm; ke'l kwe-lekw wee' kee shoo-se'm kee nue-mee chue sku'y soo 'oo' kee too-me-nee 'we-ne-pue'.
    You will see to it that all that grows will grow well; you will see to it that it will all grow well to be eaten by every sort of person.

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

  11. Kue keech 'o 'oo' 'we-lo-'og kue 'wo'hl-p'e'y noohl 'o hlo'm skuye-nee ko-weesh 'o goo-lehl-ke'n mee' kee shoo me-che-wo-lo'.
    When the embers of the angelica root were left, she took out a stout stick and heaped them up so that they would glow.

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

  12. Kos-'e-la koo-see 'oo' k'ee keehl 'e'-gah.
    May there everywhere be food to eat.

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

  13. Hee-nuek'-wo nes 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol. Kues ke'l 'oo'?
    [Girl:] "I come here as a human being. Where are you?

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)