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koh-che-mo-'ook'

Dictionary entry

koh-che-mo-'ook' • vi oo-class • I am somewhere for one day, I stay overnight one night

Lexicon record # 963 | Source reference(s): R208 JE99

Other paradigm forms

  • 3sg koh-che-mo-'o'l R208 MM(YT1017), koh-che-mo-'ok'w

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Wee-'eeet 'o koh-che-mo-'ok'.
    I stayed there for one night.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)

  2. Yok 'e-ma koh-che-mo-'ok'.
    I stayed there one day.

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

  3. Kee koh-che-mo-'ok'.
    I'll stay one night.

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

  4. 'O koh-che-mo-'o'l.
    He stayed all night.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  5. 'O koh-che-mo-'o' 'o wee-'eet.
    He stayed right there all night.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)