Yurok dictionary

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hew

Dictionary entry

hew • vn • live, be healthy, get well, survive

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Other paradigm form

  • iterative huue JE37

Special meaning or use

  • kue ho soo huue custom, culture [literally, "the way they used to live"] JE37

Sentence examples (6)

  1. Ke-lo-mek 'new.
    I'm upset.

    Audio 

    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Plurals and Repeated Events (EJW-01-2-1, 2006)

  2. Ke-lo-mek 'new mehl kue hoo'yk-'e-nee.
    I'm very upset because of that lost (boy).

    Audio 

    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Plurals and Repeated Events (EJW-01-2-1, 2006)

  3. Ke-lo-mek 'new.
    I am worried.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Classroom vocabulary sentences (GT5) (GT5, 1998)

  4. Ke-lo-mek 'wew.
    She or he is worried.

    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences in Jessie Exline's Yurok Dictionary (YD, 1980s)

  5. Chmey-yaan see nes tue' 'ee-mee wo nes tue' ne-kah ke-lo-mek 'new.
    He should have come yesterday, but he did not come, and we were worried.

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

  6. Ke-lo-mek 'new.
    I am worried.

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