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meyr-kwe-nee

Dictionary entry

meyr-kwe-nee • adv • everything [takes pronominal prefixes]

Lexicon record # 1586 | Source reference: R222

Special meaning or use

  • k'ee meyr-kwe-nee so-no-wo-nee all kinds of R222

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Meyr-kwe-nee 'e-me neeen'.
    He looked everywhere.

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

  2. Kel' nee-kee ma meyr-kwe-nee ho ser-ner-yerh.
    You have seen everything.

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

  3. Nek keech 'ne-meyr-kwe-nee ser-ner-yerh.
    I have seen everything.

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

  4. To' 'uemeyr-kwe-nee nep' 'o'-loo-le-kweesh-'ol, kee to' 'uemeyr-kwe-nee nep'.
    A human being eats everything, he will eat everything.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)