Dictionary entry
neenee • pv • 1 more [comparative] 2 around
Lexicon record # 2175 | Source reference(s): R230
Special meanings or uses
neenee te'no' more JE90
neenee chey smaller JE122
neenee keemo'l worse JE151
Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (34)
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Cho' neenee plerrser'm k'e-chwegeen, neekeechyue 'we-ko'moyohl.
Talk louder so everyone can hear you.
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Ko'l neemee hesek' kee ko'moyohl. Cho' neenee plerrser'm.
I don't think they can hear you. Talk a little louder. — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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We'y neenee hegook'
I'm around. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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To' wee' neenee hegook'.
I'll be around. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Wee' neenee hoole'm kue puuek.
The deer are wandering. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-2, 2003)
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Mee' neenee muuekwole'm...
Because the swells are receding (it's safe yet to bring the boat in). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-016) (LA138-016, 1980)
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Wee' neenee rek'eeen 'ue-kahchuue'm. Keech ho kach'.
They're sitting around sewing. She's sewing. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Neenee sekoyue'r.
S/he swims quickly. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-057) (LA138-057, 1980)
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[Tee'neesho wee' k'ee tohta'r?] Tohta'r kwel nee tene'm, to' nuue neenee tene'm.
[What is the grasshopper?] There's lots of grasshoppers, there are a lot around. — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)
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Kwesee kohchee 'we-neskwechook' 'ap ko'mo'y, 'ue-worue wonuekuek neenee ko'mo'y kue 'w-ahpeleen kue huueksoh 'w-omtah.
Then once as he came home he heard, around and overhead he heard the happy children playing.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)
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Kwesee noohl pontet 'o hlee', noohl weet 'we-luehl neenee muelonee weet.
Then they took ashes, and they rubbed them on their mouths there.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)
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Kue negeneech tue' kem wee' 'o gegok'w, kolonee wee' neenee hak'ws.
The mouse, he was there too, and he was kind of laughing to himself, kind of giggling around to himself.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)
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Kwesee wee' neenee noo's kue negeneech.
Of course that mouse was just kind of laughing around.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)
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Heenaagar cho' neenee sootoo'm, tue'l.
Get out of the way, Auntie.— Jessie Van Pelt, Rattlesnake medicine (JVP1, 2001)
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Nekah wee' neenee too'moh wohpekw 'o seekwer'.
A lot of us here ... out in the water.— Jessie Van Pelt, Rattlesnake medicine (JVP1, 2001)
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'O nek ... lekwsee neenee yegok' ... chpeenah mee' keech hohkue' kue 'we-leenkee sho'n hewecheen.
I went around outside ... I waited because his eyes were being fixed.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Noohl 'o ge's, Nek soo neenee so tmooloy. Nekah chyue kee lo'omah.
Then he thought, I think we shot it. We should run away.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Two Boys Kill a Donkey" (LA181-16, 1986)
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Tue' 'o new kyue' neenee kueree'm.
I saw them floating around there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Feeding Otters" (LA181-31, 1986)
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Kwesee kohchee 'we-neskwechook' 'ap ko'mo'y, 'ue-worue wonuekuek neenee ko'mo'y kue 'w-ahpeleen kue huueksoh 'w-omtah.
Then once as he came home he heard, around and overhead he heard the happy children playing.— Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)
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Kue negeneech tue' kem wee' 'o gegok'w, kolo wee' neenee hak'ws 'w-esek', Kwelekw soo mermeryerwerk', Nek kem kue hlkyorkwek'.
The mouse was walking around there too, she was laughing around a bit, thinking, Well, I am good looking, I will go and watch too.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Toad and the Mouse" (LA16-6, 1951)
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Kwesee wee' neenee noo's kue negeneech.
The mouse went giggling around.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Toad and the Mouse" (LA16-6, 1951)
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Kwelekw mocho weesh neenee rek'eeen 'eemee nepehl kwelekw weet kee 'we-tene'mek' nepuy kue weet 'we-loksee'hl.
But if they sit around and do not eat, it means that salmon will be plentiful that year.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Yo' neenee knewolep' pegerk.
He is the taller man.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nek neenee chey 'o ke'l.
I am younger than you.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kue negeneech wee' neenee hak'ws.
The mouse was laughing around.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Wee' neenee kmoyhl ha'aag.
Rocks are kind of scattered around.— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)
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Wee' neenee hegook'
I walk about, here and there— Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)
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Wee' neenee kepoyuerek'
I swim about at random— Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)
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Tue wee neenee yo gooluuelowee' k'ee 'w-a'aagk'ee reeek'ew k'ee peeshkaahl, k'ee 'O Schegep' 'o tekto'y.
He was carrying his rock around at the sea-shore, the one that stands at 'O Schegep'.— Captain Spott, "The Obsidian Cliff at Rek'woy" (X16, 1907)
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Tue' keekee soo neenee... keekee soo neenee skuue... Weetee' mehl wo nue skuuewok...
... they are good ... That is why they like them.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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To' cho' neenee neee'nowo'm.
Look around.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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Kwelekw 'ee yo 'o keech neenee yegook' 'ee nee kaap'oleehl, keech soneenee hlmeyorkwek' k'ee mekwcheewo.
I have just been walking around here in the brush because Indians (all) fear me.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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hee nee nuek'wo neskwechook', 'o'loo'lekweeshol, kwel keech eesh neenee yegook'.
I come back, village dweller, go around.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)