Dictionary entry
neee'nek' • vt e-class • I watch, I guard, I look, I look for, I hunt for, I search for
Lexicon record # 2189 | Source reference(s): R230 FS(B209) JE117 JE233
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (24)
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'Ahtemar ho neee'nek'. Tue teno' 'ne-'ahtemar ho 'ne-neee'n.
I've been reading. I've been doing a lot of reading.
— Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)
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Neee'nek' 'ne-'yoch.
I see my boat. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)
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Heetoo ho neee'nes!
Look this way! — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)
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Neee'nes!
Look! — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)
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Hehl neee'nes!
Hey look! — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)
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Neee'nes kue ch'ue'ch'eesh.
Look at the bird. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)
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Tee'neeshoo kee neee'ne'm?
What are you looking at? — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 9: "What are you making? Making, Doing, Fishing" (GT3-09, 2003)
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Kue 'wes'onew neee'nes.
How's the weather? (Look at the sky.) — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Keech lohpee'hl neee'nes.
Look at the clouds. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Neee'nes kue noorew negahse'wey.
Look at the pretty rainbow. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Neee'nes kue 'o t'lewoluehl.
Look at the waterfall. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Ko'l weno'os cho' nue neee'nem.
Bring it and guard it. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (JB-04-1a) (JB-04-1a, 2002)
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Lekws ho neee'nek'.
I saw (it) outside. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (JB-04-1a) (JB-04-1a, 2002)
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Neee'nes kue noorewonee wer'yers!
Look at the pretty girl! — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)
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Wonekw ho neee'nes!
Look up! — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Wonekw ho neee'nes kerrcherh!
Look up at the ridge! — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Nuemee koy cho' 'o neee'nem' k'ee k'e-lew.
Go and look at your net early in the morning.— Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)
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Kue mewah keychek 'we-nerhperyerk', hegok'w 'we-neee'nek' cheeeshep' 'esee 'werrp'.
The boy was tired of gathering berries, he went to look for flowers and butterflies.— Jessie Exline, "The Grey Sea Gull" (CICD2, 1983)
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Kwesee 'ap ha'm, Hahl neee'nes, kuech, kwelekw keech kohchewok', tue' nek ka'ar wee' kee yoh.
And he said, Look, grandmother, I have caught this, and I will make it a pet.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Ro'op'es 'emsee neee'nes!
Run and look!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Hehl neee'nes!
Look!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nue negeee'nes k'e-ch'eesh.
Go hunt (look) for your dog.— Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)
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Kwelekw weet kee mehl hewoloche'm, mo wee'eeet tue' mehl slo'ehlkoo'm, keech mehl mok'w k'e-tewon. Wek hehl neee'nes k'e-'wes!
You will get well from that, for you are thin, you no longer have flesh. Look at yourself!— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)
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Hehl neee'no'wes! Hehl neee'nes!
Look! Look!— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)