Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

chmey' • v imp e-class • it is evening

Lexicon record # 189 | Source reference: R192
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Sentence examples (8)

1. Mo keech chmey', mo keech 'o che-po-re'hl.
   When it's evening it gets cold outside.

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   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

2. Nek kwe-lekw nee-mee kom-chue-mek' kwen kol' kee ne-pek'. 'Enee cho nee keech chmey'.
   I don't know when I'm going to eat. Maybe in the evening.

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   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

3. Koy-poh 'em-see kee 'o chmey' 'o nerr-ger's.
   In the morning and evening he gathered sweathouse wood.

   — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

4. Keech chmey' lekw-seesh 'o soo-tol' kue me-wee-mor, hee-noy 'o 'o-ro-go' kue 'nep-sech.
   In the evening the old man went out, and my father followed him.

   — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

5. Keet 'o chmey' 'o nerr-ger's.
   As evening fell he gathered sweathouse wood.

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

6. Nee-kee ho chmey'.
   Then it was evening.

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

7. Nee-kee k'ee kwen ho chmey' noohl hoh-kue-moh.
   We went on working right until nightfall.

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

8. Hle-nue-tue' chmey' noohl 'oohl-ke's 'o 'er'-gerrch.
   He lay in the sweathouse until finally it was evening.

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