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swoyhlkweyetek'

Dictionary entry

swoyhlkweyetek' • vt e-class • I scatter, I pour out

Lexicon record # 3336 | Source reference(s): R252
Derivation: morphological structure swoyhlkwey-et-e-

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (2)

  1. Tue' we'yon weesh ho tekwtekwso'm, noohl puelekws kue laaregor 'ema ho swoyhlkweyet'.
    The girl cut this up and scattered it at the mouth of the river where the waves break along the shore.

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

  2. Noohl puelekws kue laaregor 'ema ho swoyhlkeyet'.
    Then she scattered it at the river mouth where the waves run in.

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