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reeek'ew

Dictionary entry

reeek'ew • n • shore, sandbar, ashore, river's edge, shore line

Lexicon record # 2865 | Source reference(s): R243 JE10 JE14 JE112 JE119
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Short recordings (4) | Sentence examples (15)

  1. Reeek'ew.
    Shore.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 30: "Environment." (GT3-30, 2003)

  2. Reeek'ew keech lenekw.
    It drifted ashore.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-021) (LA138-021, 1980)

  3. Reeek'ew cho' raayuere'm.
    You swim by the shore.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-058) (LA138-058, 1980)

  4. Reeek'ew cho' lahche'm.
    Launch it (your boat) by the shore line.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-058) (LA138-058, 1980)

  5. [Pishkaahl 'o koh hes wee' k'ee tereet?] 'Ee, tereet kem peeshkaahl reeek'ew nee kego'o, 'o kohchewee', weeshtue' nee 'oole'mehl.
    [Is the spotted sandpiper a pishkaahl 'o koh?] Yes, sandpipers stand around on the beach, you can catch them. That's where they live.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  6. Tue' koosee muenchey k'ee chaahl, to' kwehl na'a'mo'w 'o wee'eeet noohl reeek'ew nee ko'oh kue 'we-neee'nowoyk' kue wee 'ee ko 'ue-myah kue 'yoch.
    And the sand was all white, and a crowd of people were standing on the shore to watch the boat bounding in there.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  7. Noohl 'o mene'mehl so heer, noohl 'o ko hlo'm kue 'ue-ma'ahskehl kue meweemor reeek'ew 'eekee laa'y so puelekw.
    Then the men went away from the water, and the old man took his spear and went down to the river mouth along the shore.

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

  8. Noohl reeek'ew nee ko'oh kue 'we-negeee'nowohl.
    Then they stood on the shore to look at it.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  9. 'O'l kas 'ee so sloychok'w reeek'ew, 'o laa'y so puel.
    He went just down the river a little ways, he went downstream along the edge of the river.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  10. Kwesee' Segep reeek'ew 'o raayo'rep'
    Coyote ran along the shore.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  11. Segep 'o tetoloo'hl 'o reeek'ew.
    Coyote cried by the river bank.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  12. Peesh weeshtue' 'o yohpechok'w (...) k'ee 'we-reeek'ew, k'ee tewolee 'we-reeek'ew, weeshtue' 'o yohpechok'w.
    So he circled the world along the edge of the ocean, he circled around there.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  13. Tue wee neenee yo gooluuelowee' k'ee 'w-a'aagk'ee reeek'ew k'ee peeshkaahl, k'ee 'O Schegep' 'o tekto'y.
    He was carrying his rock around at the sea-shore, the one that stands at 'O Schegep'.

    — Captain Spott, "The Obsidian Cliff at Rek'woy" (X16, 1907)

  14. 'Inee 'o rek'eeen reeek'ew.
    They sat on the shore.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)