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skuye'n

Dictionary entry

skuye'n • vi e-class • it is good

Lexicon record # 4485 | Source reference(s): R248 JE61 YLCB1

Other paradigm form

  • attributive 3sg/3pl skuyenee R248

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (46)

  1. Nek 'o skuyenee 'o tmeeegook' weet segootok'.
    I go hunting where I know it's safe.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)

  2. Wek 'oyhl skuyenee tektoh.
    There's a good log.

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    — Glenn Moore, Discussion and sentences related to a Coyote story (GM4, 2004)

  3. Skuye'n 'ue-koy.
    Good morning.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 1: "Hello" (GT3-01, 2003)

  4. Skuye'n 'ue-kechoyhl.
    Good afternoon.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 1: "Hello" (GT3-01, 2003)

  5. Skuye'n 'we-chmey.
    Good evening (sunset).

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 1: "Hello" (GT3-01, 2003)

  6. Skuye'n 'we-nahschewen.
    Good evening (night).

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 1: "Hello" (GT3-01, 2003)

  7. Tmenomee skuye'n.
    Half good.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 13: "One, two three..." (GT3-13, 2003)

  8. Neemee skuye'n. Cheeeko'r 'o slookw.
    Not good. There are slides everywhere.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)

  9. Re'go' keech nee mo'ok'w, keech neemee shkuye'n.
    The place we used to pick ferns is not good anymore.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

  10. Keech neemee skuye'n.
    It's not good anymore.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)

  11. Ke'l skuyenee wenchokws.
    You're a good woman.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-05-1a) (JB-05-1a, 2002)

  12. Nuemee skuye'n.
    It's really good.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)

  13. Mos ko'l sook mehl skuye'n.
    He's not good for anything.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  14. Mos skuye'n mehl ko'l sook.
    He's not good for anything.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  15. Neemee skuye'n kue pa'ah.
    The water's no good.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences for Phonological Patterns (JB-01-12, 2001)

  16. 'O kew wee' cho' ko lechkene'm, wek 'o kmoyhl skuyenee.
    Throw some (cooking rocks) into your burden basket, they lie nicely.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-008) (LA138-008, 1980)

  17. [Kaap'ehl hes wee' k'ee hega'p'oh?] 'Ee, hega'p'oh weet kem. Weet kem skuyenee wee' k'ee hega'p'oh. Newo'm muenchey 'ue-'wer', skuyenee.
    [Is the cottonwood a kaap'ehl?] Yes, cottonwood too, cottonwood is good. You see its white roots, they're good.

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

  18. 'O ge'm, Kowecho' nue lekwtemehl 'o yo', mee' mos skuye'n.
    She (her grandmother) said, Don't go dig there, because it's not good.

    — Georgiana Trull, Potato Boy (GT4, 2007)

  19. Weetee' mehl ro'oh k'e-chpega'r kee k'e-ko'moyoo'm skuyenee chweenkor.
    You have ears so you can hear the good word.

    — Jimmie James, Jimmie James ... Come on Down! (JJ-COD, 2004)

  20. Skuyen' 'ue-koy.
    Good morning.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  21. Skuyen' 'ue-kechoyhl.
    Good day.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  22. Mos nuemee skuye'n.

    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences in Jessie Exline's Yurok Dictionary (YD, 1980s)

  23. 'Ue-kweskwes mehl skuye'n.
    It's good for a cough.

    — Maggie Pilgrim and Lulu Donnelly, Yurok field notebook 3 (MRH3, 1966)

  24. Won soo tohkow; mos weet kee skuye'n kee k'e-'wegahpemew.
    They talk a different language; it would not be good for you to marry with them.

    — Bessie Fleischman, "The Story of the Klamath River Song" (LA16-2, 1951)

  25. 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)

  26. Tue' wee'eeet mehl heeegee' 'oohl pekwsue 'o skuye'n mocho ko'mee ha's, Keekee chue 'ok'w.
    And so for this we say that it is not good if a person thinks too much, I will have everything.

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

  27. Kue keech 'o 'oo' 'we-lo'og kue 'wo'hlp'e'y noohl 'o hlo'm skuyenee koweesh 'o goolehlke'n mee' kee shoo mechewolo'.
    When the embers of the angelica root were left, she took out a stout stick and heaped them up so that they would glow.

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

  28. Ke'l 'ok'w skuyenee k'e-'yoch.
    You have a good boat.

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

  29. Neemee skuyenee wee 'oohl.
    That man is no good.

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

  30. Skuyenee wee 'oohl.
    He is a good man.

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

  31. Skuye'n 'ne-nepek' k'ee nepuy.
    It is good for me to eat the salmon.

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

  32. Skuye'n wee 'oohl.
    He is a good man.

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

  33. Tosoh wa'so'y tue' 'o skuye'n kue pegerk.
    Though he is poor the man is good for all that.

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

  34. Kue ho mehl muehlkocheen 'we-nepuy kue wenchokws kwelokw neemee nuemee 'we-skuye'n.
    The salmon that that woman sold was not her best.

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

  35. Keech neemee skuye'n.
    Now it is no good.

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

  36. Skuye'n.
    It is good.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  37. Skuye'n megokw.
    A dog is good.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  38. 'Em newo'm skuye'n soo 'o'l na'a'n 'w-ahpew.
    He went and saw how well Crane lived with his two wives.

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

  39. 'We-skery neemee skuye'n.
    Her dress is not good.

    — Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)

  40. Kos 'ela skuyenee newok?? hegook' nee pueleek.
    I want my downriver travel to be good.

    — Billy Werk, Medicine or Prayer Spoken in Passing 'Ayoohl (Db, 1907)

  41. Mosee' kem kee 'we-skuyenek' mocho kee mok'w 'we-nepuyonah k'ee wee' keech 'we-raayoy.
    It won't be good if this river (lit., this waterway that now passes by here) has no salmon.

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

  42. Kwesee kohchee keech mo ko skuye'n k'ee ch'eeshah keech ho meweemor.
    And once this dog that had gotten old was no longer well.

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

  43. Skuye'n hes ho nepina (?) ke'l?
    Did you have a good dinner?

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)

  44. To' hes skuye'n pegerk.
    Is he a good man?

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)

  45. Skuye'n pegerk.
    He is a good man.

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)