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cheeegery

Dictionary entry

cheeegery • n • huckleberry

Lexicon record # 140 | Source reference(s): R191 JE18 JE71
Semantic domain: plants and trees

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (4)

  1. Cheeegery.
    Huckleberry.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 29: "Flora/Trees" (GT3-29, 2003)

  2. Skuuewetek' cheeegery.
    I like huckleberries.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  3. Kue cheeegery... keech ske'wee'.
    The huckleberries are ripe.

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    — Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)

  4. Kue cheykenee mewah kue nee'eeh 'ue-kuechos nuemee tewomehl mee keetee nue 'yerhhlkerytehl cheeegery neskwee Kohpey.
    The little boy who lived with his grandmother was very grateful because they were going to go gather huckleberries near Crescent City.

    — Jessie Exline, "The Grey Sea Gull" (CICD2, 1983)