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choolekw

Dictionary entry

choolekw • adv • down, downhill

Lexicon record # 226 | Source reference(s): R193 JE43
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (9)

  1. Choolekw so neee'nowo'm.
    You look down the hill.

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    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)

  2. Choolekw cho' sooto'm.
    Go downhill.

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    — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)

  3. Weet choolekw ko so tmegook'.
    I'm going to hunt down the hill.

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    — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)

  4. Choolekw wee' keech ro'op'.
    It ran down the hill.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)

  5. Choolekw kee soo nuuelesek'.
    I will take a load downhill.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-031) (LA138-031, 1980)

  6. Choolekw ro'opek'.
    I run downhill.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-037) (LA138-037, 1980)

  7. So choolekw.
    (I) go downhill.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-046) (LA138-046, 1980)

  8. Choolekw so sloychok'.
    I climbed down the hill.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  9. Keech choolekw so 'we-sloychook'.
    He got downhill.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)