Dictionary entry
kmoyhl • vn • lie down, die
Lexicon record # 924 | Source reference(s):
R208
Derivation: morphological structure kmoy-ehlk
Sentence examples (11)
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'I kmoyhl.
They're lying there.
— Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (LJC-03-1-1a, 2001)
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Kue tektoh pa'ahl 'ee kmoyhl.
That log is in the water. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (LJC-03-1-1a, 2001)
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Yok nee kmoyhl.
It's lying down. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-003) (LA138-003, 1980)
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Tektoh wee' nee kmoyhl.
There are logs lying around. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-003) (LA138-003, 1980)
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Noohl wek nee kmoyhl.
People are camping all around. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-003) (LA138-003, 1980)
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'O kew wee' cho' ko lechkene'm, wek 'o kmoyhl skuyenee.
Throw some (cooking rocks) into your burden basket, they lie nicely. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-008) (LA138-008, 1980)
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Cho' ko muehlsoo'm kee wek 'o kmoyhl.
Wipe them all off. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)
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'Yoncheek 'ok'w. 'Yoncheek 'o kmoyhl.
It's in the boat. It's lying in the boat. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-046) (LA138-046, 1980)
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Kue keech 'ue-mechewolo' noohl lekwseesh 'o le'mehl 'emkee weeshtue' 'ee kmoyhl, keet 'o ko saawelehl, noohl 'esee ma wegesah.
When it had burned down they went outside and lay down, and began to cool off, and then they went to bathe.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kolo 'ne-'werhlkerr' wee 'ee ko kmoyhl ho soo telek'.
It seemed as if just my bones were left, I was so ill.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Wee' neenee kmoyhl ha'aag.
Rocks are kind of scattered around.— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)