Dictionary entry
kwehl • adv • though, although, so [emphatic sentential particle] • Variant kwel
Lexicon record # 1255 | Source references: R213 JE136
Special meaning or use
kwehl paas why not? JE148
Sentence examples (20)
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Wenos wok kwehl hlkyorkwe'moh... wee' 'o ko melonee.
Come over here and we'll watch (them dancing in) the brush dance.
| Download — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Nekah kwehl neemokw' kue 'ne- nepuey.
We don't have any salmon. | Download | Password required — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Action (EJW-01-1-3, 2006)
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Mos nek skuuewetek' kwehl.
I don't care for it too much. | Download | Password required — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)
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Nek kwehl cheeweyetek' nepuey.
I want to eat salmon. | Download | Password required — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)
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Yey, cho' kwehl kaamuenem'!
You grew so fast! | Download | Password required — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-057) (LA138-057, 1980)
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[Kaap'ehl hes wee' k'ee hue'uuep'?] Paa', hue'uuep' kwehl neemee kaa'pehl wee'.
[Is hazel a kaap'ehl?] No, hazel is not brush. | Download | Password required — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)
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Kolchee kwel 'o lee' skuey' soo hegoom', kwen kee soo nee hegoolom', cho' skueyahpelem'.
Whenever they say you go well, wherever you will travel, be good. | Download | Password required — Robert Spott, Sentences (24-26) (24-26, 1933)
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Nekah kwehl 'wer'errgerch wee'eeet nepee'moh 'eenee kegoh puuek, tue' wee'eeet chpee kee 'o k'e-nahchelek'.
So we eat alder bark, and we catch more deer, and this is all you can be given here.— Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)
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Koweecho kwehl mehlownemem' k'-e'goo'; kee nuemee nee koo'opem'.
Don't touch your paddle; you are just to stand there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Tue' koosee muenchey k'ee chaahl, to' kwehl na'a'mow' 'o wee'eeet noohl reeek'ew nee ko'oh kue 'we-neee'nowoyk' kue wee 'ee ko 'ue-myah kue 'yoch.
And the sand was all white, and a crowd of people were standing on the shore to watch the boat bounding in there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Nek soo wee kol' cheenermerwerh kwehl nek.
I think I will get acquainted a little with her.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Chee now soot'os! Kwehl kem keet kemolem' 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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Koweecho kwehl ke'yonemem'!
Do not drop it!— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Koweecho kwehl che'lohtemew.
It is not to be dried.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Pee'eeh kem kee nuemee shonkee' keekee wee 'ue-pemue' koweecho kwehl che'lohtemew.
Mussles are to be treated in the same way; they are to be cooked at once and not dried.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Nekah kwehl ko' herk'erye'moh.
Well, we hid.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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To' kwehl keet ma'anor.
There he is starting to show off.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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To' kwehl neskwey'.
He was just awful.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kwesee' 'o lem', Nek kwehl loskahpeet keetee lekon'.
He said, My buckskin pipe-cover is about to fall.— Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)
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Mokee kwehl paas ko'mee tenem' weesh komchuem' kee 'n-egoyk', Weeshtue' son'.
Nevertheless there will not be many people who know and will tell about me how I did.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)