Dictionary entry
mekwehl • vn • pile up • be in a heap, be piled up • n • heap, pile
Lexicon record # 1652 | Source reference(s):
JJ(JB:5-14-2004) R221 JE103 JE67
Derivation: morphological structure mekw-ehlk
Other paradigm form
repetitive mekwomekwehl they are in heaps FS(B206)
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (9)
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Ha'ag 'O Mekwehl.
Rock pile way up the hill above Moore's. (On the left side heading upriver.)
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 20: "Place Names." (GT3-20, 2003)
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... mee' keech wee' 'o mekwehl.
(You can't pass) ... because there's a pile. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-021) (LA138-021, 1980)
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Keech kolnee 'o mekwehl.
There's got to be something piled there. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-021) (LA138-021, 1980)
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Keech wee' 'o mekwehl.
It's piled there. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-021) (LA138-021, 1980)
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Ke'l wek keech 'o mekwehl k'e-koweesh, nek tue' wek keech 'o mekwehl 'n-a'aag.
You've piled up your sticks there, and I've piled up my rocks here. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-039) (LA138-039, 1980)
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Teno' 'yoncheek 'o mekwehl 'yohhlkoych'.
There's a lot of wood piled in the boat. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-046) (LA138-046, 1980)
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Kwesee kue nek 'oolo' nuemee 'we- heechoy weet 'ap 'o mekwehl pa'aahl.
And right below where I lived, it got piled up in the water there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)
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Wek 'ee mekwehl k'ee cheeek.
There's a pile of money here.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)