Dictionary entry
pechkue • adv • upriver, upstream
Lexicon record # 2469 | Source reference(s):
R236
Semantic
domain: directions and locations
Short recordings (5) | Sentence examples (19)
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Pechkue soonekw laas.
There's a trail going up to the river.
— Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Pechkue kem soonekw.
You also go upriver. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Pechkue 'o lek, pechkue lekoyo'.
It (North Fork Mad River) flows upstream (i.e. south rather than north), it flows upstream. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Pechkue lege'm.
They (sea lions) go upriver. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences About Animals (AG-01-2, 2004)
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Pechkue soonekw kue laas.
The trail goes upriver. — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)
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Pechkue mehl lohpee'hl.
The clouds are coming from upriver. — Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)
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Pechkue soonekw.
It (a trail) goes upriver. — Glenn Moore, Discussion of trails and trail directions (GM8, 2003)
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Kue nee'eeh pechkue sootok'w.
The person I'm living with went up the river. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (JB-03-1) (JB-03-1, 2002)
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Pechkue so menoot' kue pekcheech.
He's pulling the rope up the river. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)
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Pechkue so menoot'.
He's pulling it upstream. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)
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Kue pa'aahl 'we-lootek' kue ha'aag, wonue 'o legaayo', noohl pechkue 'o so kelomoh, noohl 'o menekw.
When he threw the stone into the water, it ricocheted up, turned upstream, and then disappeared.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Pechkue keech 'o remoh.
They are doing the doctor dance up river now.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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'O le's, Heee, pechkue 'o segep!
He thought, "Heee!" Upriver Coyote did.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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Peeshtue' weeshtue' kwel nee muech hohkuem' pechkue 'o segep 'wo-'ohkween kue 'we-nepuyonah.
So Upriver Coyote himself made it that they have salmon.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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Wi' cho' chpee neee'nowor kye kwen k'ee reguereen pechkue.
Look there where they're swimming upstream.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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Kem 'o new pechkue keech hopkue'r.
He saw another one starting to swim from upriver.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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Kem 'ee neekee kue raayue'r, kem 'o new pechkue keech hopkue'r.
It too swam past, he saw another starting to swim from upriver.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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Noohl pechkue ho neee'no'w.
Then he looked upriver.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)