Dictionary entry
merwperh • n • food carried with one, food brought by bride, packed lunch
Lexicon record # 1903 | Source reference(s):
R225 JE86 AF(JB)
Semantic
domain: food, drink, and cooking
Other paradigm form
short form merw R225
Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (6)
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Wek 'ne-merw. Cho' negeme'm k'er-merw, wek keech 'oo' k'ee merwperh.
This is my lunch. Take your lunch, it's lunchtime.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-024) (LA138-024, 1980)
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Tue' weet 'ema hlo 'ohpew merwperh.
Then he was given food.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Mocho kergerk' so keskee, 'o negemek' merwperh, tue' 'ahtemar mega'epoyew.
When I was alone down at the river, I brought food, and it was wrapped in paper.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Feeding Otters" (LA181-31, 1986)
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Tue' chpee weet sego'n kee 'we-'ohpew'ue-merw.
That was the only way he fed him.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)