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kwerm-hler-yerh

Dictionary entry

kwerm-hler-yerhvn • look back • turn around (intr.)

Lexicon record # 1291 | Source reference(s): MM(ES44) R214 FS(LA138-007)

Sentence examples (5)

  1. Kwom-hler-yerh kue 'woo-gey.
    Someone looked back at the white man.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-007) (LA138-007, 1980)

  2. Cho' kue kwerm-hler-yerh.
    Turn around and look back.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-007) (LA138-007, 1980)

  3. Cho' nuek'-wo kwerm-hler-yerh, cho' nuek'-wo kwerm-hler-yerh-serr'm.
    Go turn around and look back.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-007) (LA138-007, 1980)

  4. Soo ske-wok-see-mek' kue we'-yon, kwe-see so kwerm-hler-yerh.
    I so love the girl (he said), and he turned around in that direction.

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

  5. Kwe-see kue 'o kwerm-hler-yerh 'ee-kee koo-see ko'-mo'y k'ee kaap' kwe-lekw 'we-rookw-sek'.
    And as he turned around there he heard the wind blowing all around through the leaves.

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