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wohlkechee'

Dictionary entry

wohlkechee' • vi e-class pass • it is morning • Variant wookhlkechee'

Lexicon record # 3928 | Source reference(s): R264 MM(ES35)
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (3)

  1. 'O gee' cho', Knokseeme'm kue 'woogey son k'e-slekw; kolchee wohlkechee' tue' ko' 'o nerrgerse'm, weet kee chpee 'o nepe'm kue meweemor 'we-romech 'ue-pewomek', 'ohlkuemee wok kem neeko'l 'w-ohkepek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee'eeyen pegerk.
    He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.

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

  2. Kolchee wohlkechee' tue' ko 'o nerrgerse'm.
    Every (time it is) morning you will gather sweathouse wood.

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

  3. Kwesee' 'o nohlpe'y mehl 'er'gerrch; neekee wokhlkechee' kue 'we-nohlpeyk'.
    He went out from the sweathouse; it was just getting daylight when he went out.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)