Dictionary entry
loksee'hl • v imp e-class • it is a year
Lexicon record # 1427 | Source references: R217 JE153
Semantic
domain: times and seasons
Special meanings or uses
nahksemee loksee'hl it is three years R217
tewomehl sa'anor loksee'hl! Happy New Year! YLCB78 [greetings and polite expressions]
Sentence examples (7)
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Loksee'hl.
Year.
| Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)
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Tewome'hl sa'anor 'we-loksee'hl.
Happy NewYear. | Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)
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Mocho kue kego'sneg 'emsee k'err' weesh mehl pelomeyehl kwelekw 'eemoksue tenem' kue nepuey kue weet 'we-loksee'hl.
If the seagulls and crows fight over it there will not be much salmon that year.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kwelekw mocho weesh neenee rek'eeen 'eemee nepehl kwelekw weet kee 'we-tene'mek' nepuey kue weet 'we-loksee'hl.
But if they sit around and do not eat, it means that salmon will be plentiful that year.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Nahksemee loksee'hl.
It is three years.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kwesee' keech 'o kor' nee loksee'hl weeshtue' kem 'o 'o chyuuek'ween' 'o ko'moyom' kol' kye kwen 'o ruerowom'.
One year went by, again she sat down there, then she heard some place there was singing.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)
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Peesh, kwesee 'o loksee'hl, kwesee 'eeshkuue 'ee weeshtue' son', keech tue' weeshtue' ho soo gegol'. 'Ishkuue nee slo'ehlko'.
Well, then it was a year, and slowly it was like this, since he had gone around like that. Slowly he wasted away.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)