Dictionary entry
chee • particle • imperative [emphatic]
Lexicon record # 114 | Source reference(s): R191
Special meaning or use
Chee 'o'! Give me some! JE60
Sentence examples (21)
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Weet wonue chee 'o sooto'.
You go up the hill right there.
— Glenn Moore, Discussion of hunting language and directional terminology (GM9, 2004)
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Woop' 'o mer'lues chee nue me'wo'och!
Sucker from way out in the middle (of the water), come and get caught! — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-01) (JB-01-01, 2001)
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Chee 'o'!
Give me some (food)! — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Chee 'o' k'e-pop, cheeweyek'!
Pass the bread, I'm hungry! — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Chee ko'l soo ko' nep's.
Eat something. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)
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Chee 'o'!
Give me some!— Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences in Jessie Exline's Yurok Dictionary (YD, 1980s)
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Tue' nek wee' ko'oyuemek' kue 'echkwoh 'n-eksek', Chee nue hl'os.
It was I who engaged the seals, saying to each of them, Go and fetch him.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Chee now soot'os! Kwehl kem keet kemole'm nee wee'.
Be off! You are just going to steal again.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Chee 'o'p'een k'e-pop!
Give me some of your bread!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko'l nep's!
Have something to eat!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee hohkuemekw!
Do some work, all of you!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nahchel ko'l sook!
Give us something!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee rek'eeen!
Sit down, all of you!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko'l ko' nep's!
Have something to eat!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko che'yk'ues!
Take a bite!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee ko rek'eeen!
Sit down (pl.)!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nue nohsewen!
Go and help!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee lekwsee nue ko'l hohkuemekw!
Go outside and do some work (pl.)!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Chee nue menehlke'nes!
Come and put the fire out!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kwesee' 'o le'm, Chee nue negepoyon.
He said to them, Go and pick grass.— Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)
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Noohl chee naago'r, 'ne-tuelos.
Run far away, my aunt.— Amits of Kep'el, Medicine not to see rattlesnake (Nb, 1906)