Dictionary entry
'ne-leen • n dep • 1 my eye(s) 2 my glasses, my eyeglasses
Lexicon record # 2397 | Source reference(s):
WG(WEM263) R217 JE50 YLCB19
Semantic
domain: body parts and the body
Other paradigm form
indefinite me-leen somebody's eye(s)
ke'ween 'we-leen "hail"
Short recordings (12) | Sentence examples (13)
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Kue 'ne-leen hoo'yk'etek'.
I lost my glasses.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Kues kue 'ne-leen?
Where are my glasses? — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Kee lo'ogey 'we-leen 'esee kue 'ue-p'er'n kee pekoyoh.
Black his eye and bloody his nose. (beat up) — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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'Ne-leen.
My eye. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 23: "Body Parts" (GT3-23, 2003)
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K'e-leen.
Your eye. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 23: "Body Parts" (GT3-23, 2003)
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'We-leen.
His/Her eye. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 23: "Body Parts" (GT3-23, 2003)
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Ko'l soo 'ne-leeneek leko'n.
Something fell in my eye. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Ko'l soo hes k'e-leeneek leko'n?
Did something get in your eye? — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Kues neke'm kue k'e-leen?
Where did you put your glasses? — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Kues neke'm kue 'ne-leen?
Where did you put my glasses? — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Keech kekwono' kue 'ne-leen.
My glasses are broken. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-02-13a) (JB-02-13a, 2001)
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Keech swerkee' 'ne-leen.
My eyesight is failing.— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)
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plohkelonee 'we-leen
her or his big eye— Carrie Roberts, Yurok field notebook 1 (MRH1, 1950)