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kego'sneg

Dictionary entry

kego'sneg • n • seagull • Variant kego'osneg

Lexicon record # 758 | Source reference(s): WG(WEM274) R205 JE117
Semantic domain: birds
Derivation: literally, "it eats everything" ( "", nepek' "I eat")

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (5)

  1. Kego'osneg.
    Sea gull.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 31: "Animals" (GT3-31, 2003)

  2. [Ch'ue'ch'eesh hes wee' k'ee kego'sneg?] Paa'.
    [Is the seagull a ch'u'ch'ish?] No.

    Audio 

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

  3. Keech kego'sneg, 'we-re'noh kolo lo'ogey, 'esee newee' mehl kue muenchey kego'sneg.
    He is a grey seagull, his feathers are dark, and he is seen with white seagulls.

    — Jessie Exline, "The Grey Sea Gull" (CICD2, 1983)

  4. Mocho kue kego'sneg 'emsee k'err' weesh mehl pelomeyehl kwelekw 'eemoksue tene'm kue nepuy kue weet 'we-loksee'hl.
    If the seagulls and crows fight over it there will not be much salmon that year.

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