Dictionary entry
tos • excl • child!
Lexicon record # 3648 | Source reference(s):
R258 JE30
Semantic
domains: people; greetings and polite expressions
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (5)
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Keech testooleyek', tos.
I'm shaking, my child.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Tos kwelekw skuye'n 'we-re'noh; ko'l sook wee' kee mehl ko hohkueme'm; wek kee nekue'.
Child, this one's feather is pretty; you will make something with this; we will put it away.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kem 'o ge'm, Paa tos mos k'ee we'yk'oh 'ue-wook ko'l 'o newook'.
She said, No, child, I have not seen anything here this morning.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Wenos tos!
Come here, child! (any child, kin or not)— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)
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Kwesee 'o le'm kue perey, Wokhlew, tos, nohpe'wes.
And the old woman said, Thank you, child, go inside.— Robert Spott, No'och (RS1, 1933)