Dictionary entry
chee • particle • imperative [emphatic]
Lexicon record # 114 | Source reference: R191
Special meaning or use
Chee 'o'! Give me some! JE60
Sentence examples (20)
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Weet wo-nue chee 'o soo-to'.
You go up the hill right there.
| Download | Password required — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)
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Woop' 'o mer'-lues chee nue me'-wo-'och!
Sucker from way out in the middle (of the water), come and get caught! | Download | Password required — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-01) (JB-01-01, 2001)
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Chee 'o'!
Give me some (food)! | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Chee 'o' k'e-pop, chee-wey-yek'!
Pass the bread, I'm hungry! | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Chee kol' soo ko' nep's.
Eat something. | Download | Password required — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)
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Tue' nek wee' ko-'o-yue-mek' kue 'ech-kwoh 'nek-sek', Chee nue hl'os.
It was I who engaged the seals, saying to each of them, Go and fetch him.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Chee now soot-'os! Kwehl kem keet ke-mo-lem' nee wee'.
Be off! You are just going to steal again.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Chee 'o'p-'een k'e-pop!
Give me some of your bread!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee kol' nep's!
Have something to eat!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee hoh-kue-mekw!
Do some work, all of you!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nah-chel kol' sook!
Give us something!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee rek-'eeen!
Sit down, all of you!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee kol' ko' nep's!
Have something to eat!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko che'yk-'ues!
Take a bite!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko rek-'eeen!
Sit down (pl.)!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nue noh-se-wen!
Go and help!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee lekw-see nue kol' hoh-kue-mekw!
Go outside and do some work (pl.)!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nue me-nehl-ke'-nes!
Come and put the fire out!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kwe-see' 'o lem', Chee nue ne-ge-po-yon.
He said to them, Go and pick grass.— Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)
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Noohl chee naa-gor', 'ne-tue-los.
Run far away, my aunt.— Amits of Kep'el, Medicine not to see rattlesnake (Nb, 1906)