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Pekwtuehl

Dictionary entry

Pekwtuehl • pn • a village between the Klamath and Trinity where they meet

Lexicon record # 2515 | Source reference(s): YG:G24
Semantic domain: place names

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (3)

  1. Pekwtuehl.
    Small village, Pearson's store. (On the left side heading upriver.)

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 20: "Place Names." (GT3-20, 2003)

  2. Peesh weeshtue' chpeyue'r Tewpos 'o cheen, 'w-egolek', Weet sonowok' 'ne-skewokseemek' kue Pekwtuehl 'o we'yon.
    So this is the story of the young man from Tewpos, how he said, It has happened to me that I love the girl at Pekwtuhl.

    — Bessie Fleischman, "The Story of the Klamath River Song" (LA16-2, 1951)

  3. Pekwtuehl weet 'ok'w we'yon.
    At Pekwtuhl there lived an unmarried woman.

    — Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)