Dictionary entry
kolchi • conj • whenever
Lexicon record # 992 | Source reference: R209
Sentence examples (12)
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Kolchi kwel 'o li' sku'y soo hegoo'm, kwen ki soo ni hegoolo'm, cho' skuyahpele'm.
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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Kwesi kolchi 'o ko'l kich tetolo'hl ku 'ne-ch'ish.
And one time my dog was crying out there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Tu' kolchi plop', kem 'o kaamop' 'o yu'.
And whenever it flooded, the water was rough there again.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)
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Kolchi ko'l sootok'w ku chines kem tu' sega'ni poy 'o chi nu raayo'r ku 'u-ka'ar.
Whenever the young man went anywhere his pet would often run right on ahead of him.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Hehlku ni raayo'r, kwesi kolchi ko'l 'ok'w hehlku neskwi 'emehl raayo'r ku 'yoch.
He ran along the bank, and whenever he got to any point on the riverside the boat was passing near him.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kolchi ko'l 'o pegar kem tu' 'o'lep 'o myah 'w-egolek', Kuch, ni mok'w hes 'oyhl ki nepek'?
Whenever anyone was at home he leaped into the house and said, Grandmother, isn't there anything lying here for me to eat?— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kolchi kyah 'o gunkekso' wo'iks 'o lehlke'n 'wo'hlp'e'y.
Every month he opened the box and scattered angelica root inside.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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'O gi' cho', Knoksime'm ku 'woogey son k'e-slekw; kolchi wohlkechi' tu' ko' 'o nrrgrse'm, wit ki chpi 'o nepe'm ku mewimor 'we-romech 'u-pewomek', 'ohlkumi wok kem niko'hl 'w-ohkepek' tu' wok ki chpi pew mehl ku ni'iyen pegrk.
He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kolchi trgrw kem tu' 'o goyhlkep' 'we-tuuk kolo 'we-nooloochek' ku nepuy.
Every time he spoke its tail wagged as if the salmon were answering.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kolchi ko'l 'ok'w neskwi 'emehl raayo'r ku 'yoch.
Whenever he was at some point the boat was passing near by there.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kolchi newohpe'n tu' kem niki 'wr-'r'grp.
Every time he sees me he tells me of it.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kolchi wohlkechi' tu' ko 'o nrrgrse'm.
Every (time it is) morning you will gather sweathouse wood.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)