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tema

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tema • adv • for a long time, in vain

Lexicon record # 3468 | Source reference(s): R254

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (14)

  1. Tema koma chegohchoh kue twegoh.
    The coon still struggled for a long time.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Fox and the Coon" (GM2, 2004)

  2. Kwesee neekee 'ue-pel 'o wee'eeet to' tema koma chegohchoh kue twegoh.
    So the fight went on there and the coon vainly struggled for a long time.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Fox and the Coon" (LA16-5, 1951)

  3. Tema hloy kee 'ne-kweget tue' yo'hlkoh 'ee nuue'm.
    I tried to visit you but they arrived at the time.

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

  4. Kwesee' kue 'w-ahpewehl 'em wonkewehl 'o kas keech tem legee' Segep, Ko'n nue' nep's.
    His wives were soaking acorns down the river after trying to tell Coyote to go and eat.

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

  5. Tema hloy kee 'na-'ahtemar.
    I tried to write.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (TTW-A) (TTW-A, 1909)

  6. Tema hloy kee 'ne-neee'n 'na-'a'.
    I tried to read my paper.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (TTW-A) (TTW-A, 1909)

  7. 'O meyrkwechol' 'o wee', tema meyrkwechol'.
    He went everywhere there, in vain he went everywhere.

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

  8. Keech tema meyrkwechol'.
    He went all over for a long time.

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

  9. Tema 'ap 'o legol'.
    For a long time he went about.

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

  10. Tema meyrkwenee sootok'w kem 'o wonoye'eek.
    For a long time he went all over the sky.

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

  11. Keech tema meyrkwechook' 'o 'wes'onew, wonoye'eek kem keech tema laayek'.
    I have been everywhere in the world, and I also went through the sky.

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

  12. Nuemee chyue, nuemee chyue tema sooto'l, 'w-esek', Kues tue ko 'o tekto'y?
    Everywhere, he tried to go everywhere, thinking, Where will it stand?

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

  13. Tue k'ee sonenee, k'ee sonenee menomenehl tue' sonenee tema tekto'y, kem tue neemee wo' pyekwchenee serneryerh kee 'we-tektonek'.
    Like a cliff it was to stand there, but it did not look right as it stood there.

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