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'ne-chekos

Dictionary entry

'ne-chekosn dep • my mother • Variant 'ne-chekoh

Lexicon record # 2380 | Source reference(s): MM(ES20)
Semantic domain: kin terms

Other paradigm form

  • short form 'ne-chek R190 JE91

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (13)

  1. Kues cho' so'n k'e-chek?
    How is your mother?

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 2: "How are you?" (GT3-02, 2003)

  2. Cho' noolooche'm k'e-chek.
    You answer your mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)

  3. Keech chperwerk 'ne-chek.
    I'm lonely for my mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)

  4. Keetue kweget 'ne-chek.
    I'm going to visit my mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)

  5. Keetee kweget 'ne-chek.
    I'm going to visit my mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)

  6. 'Ne-chek.
    My mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 22: "People/Relatives" (GT3-22, 2003)

  7. K'e-chek.
    Your mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 22: "People/Relatives" (GT3-22, 2003)

  8. 'We-chek.
    His mother.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 22: "People/Relatives" (GT3-22, 2003)

  9. K'e-chek cho' hekse'm, Wokhlew.
    Tell your mother, Thank you.

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (JB-009_1) (JB-009_1, 2003)

  10. Kues kue k'e-chek?
    Where is your mother?

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Repetitive and Iterative Verbs (JB-02-06, 2001)

  11. Tkwo 'o nuemee chey 'ne-chek hoorekwechoyek'.
    When I was little, my mother carried me on her back.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Iteratives, Passives, and Repetitives (JB-02-14a, 2001)

  12. 'Ne-chek hoorekwechoyek'.
    My mother packed me on her back.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with Iteratives, Passives, and Repetitives (JB-02-14a, 2001)

  13. Kue wee' hegohkuemeen kwelekw Charlie Williams 'we-chekoh weesh 'ue-peechowos Pewolew 'o meweemor weet soo neke'y.
    The man who performed the ceremony was the grandfather of Charlie Williams' mother, and was called the Old Man of Pewolew.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)