Dictionary entry
peechowos • n • grandfather • Variant peechos
Lexicon record # 2568 | Source reference(s):
R238 JE62
Semantic
domain: kin terms
Other paradigm forms
short form peech R238 JE62
vocative peech MM(ES22), peet FS(B211)
Short recordings (5) | Sentence examples (9)
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Pecheek me'womey k'ee nekee' 'ne-peechowos 'esee k'ee 'ne-kuechos.
My grandfather and my grandmother came from upriver.
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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... cheykenee ko'l 'we-son kue 'ne-peechowos. ... neemee ma komchuemek'.
My grandfather died when I was a baby. I never met him. — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Mos ko'l nekomuy kee 'we-che'lohtek' nepuy kue 'ne-peechowos 'we-sonkok'.
Nobody makes smoked salmon as well as my grandfather does. — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)
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Nue hl'os k'e-peechowos.
Go get your grandfather. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)
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Peechowos.
Grandfather. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 22: "People/Relatives" (GT3-22, 2003)
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Kwesee 'ok'w 'ue-peechowos.
He had a grandfather.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)
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Kwesee kem 'o noowo'r 'w-egoyek', Kwelekw cho heemooreyowo'm! Kwelekw keet markewech' kue k'e-peechowos.
And again someone ran up telling him, Well, hurry! Your grandfather is going to die.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)
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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)
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Kue meweemor kue wee' megetohlkwomeen kwelekw nek soo 'we-too'mar muehlcho' 'ue-peechowos wee' kue meskwoh hegoh kue nek 'ne-psech ho nergerykermeen.
The old man who looked after the pipes was a connection or perhaps the grandfather of the man who made the medicine and whom my father helped.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)