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keeshen

Dictionary entry

keeshen • vn impersonal • be summer • n • summer • Variants keesen keeshe'n

Lexicon record # 908 | Source reference(s): I3 I3-WF JE130 GT1 R207 FS(HB) LA138-002
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Derived phrase or compound

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (7)

  1. And kue keeshen mos 'o nuemee saawelee'm.
    And in the summer they weren't cold.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Moon and His Wife (GT2, 2003)

  2. Keeshen.
    Summer.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)

  3. Skewok kee 'ne-kepoyuerek' keeshen.
    I like to swim in summer.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)

  4. Keech keeshe'n.
    It's summer.

    Audio 

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-002) (LA138-002, 1980)

  5. Lenekw 'oohl keesen.
    A person drowned in the summer.

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

  6. Mo weet keech weno'omoksee'hl nuemee wogeek 'ue-keeshen, nuemee meeek (?) soo to'm 'ue-keeshen, keech weesh 'o lo so'n.
    When it was right in the middle of summer, it was at the height of summer, he did so.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Wohpekumew's Flute Song" (I3, 1906)