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cherwerser' seventh month in old Yurok calendar

chmey yesterday, late

chmeyaan yesterday

chmeyoksee'hl it is evening, it is dusk, it is late

chmeyonen be evening, evening

chme'y it is evening

chomee'sh noon

chomee'sh 'we-roo noon, midday

choona'awech fourth month in old Yurok calendar, four months

heechmey the day before yesterday

heekon formerly, once, long ago, in the past

heekonee formerly, once

hegor month

hohkem eleventh or twelfth month in old Yurok calendar

kaamoh twelfth or thirteenth month in old Yurok calendar

kechoy all day

keepuen be winter, winter

keeshen be summer, summer

kelomehl fall, autumn

kelomoksee'hl it is a period of time (month, season, year?)

kerrmercher' ninth month in old Yurok calendar

keyoh early fall, early autumn

keyohkemoh early fall, early autumn

knewoleta' eighth month in old Yurok calendar

kohchaawech sixth month in old Yurok calendar

kohchewech first month in old Yurok calendar, one month

koypoh in the morning, early, early morning

kyah rise (sun or moon), spring (season), vernal

kyahchenee vernal

loksee'hl

meroyoo fifth month in old Yurok calendar

nahschewen night

nahschueh last night

na'awech second month in old Yurok calendar, two months

nohsoo tenth month in old Yurok calendar

pyegaagoh eleventh month in old Yurok calendar

roo be a particular time, time, hour

rootep' it is a particular time

weno'ome'hl it is a particular season, season

weno'omoksee'hl it is a particular season

wohlkechee' it is morning

wook morning, dawn, be morning

wooyhl all night, overnight

'owook tomorrow, the next day

'owookpaa the day after tomorrow

'o'r it is the first sliver of the new moon

Dictionary entry

loksee'hl • v imp e-class • it is a year

Lexicon record # 1427 | Source reference(s): R217 JE153
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Sentence examples (10)

  1. Loksee'hl.
    Year.

    Audio 

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

  2. Tewome'hl sa'anor 'we-loksee'hl.
    Happy New Year.

    Audio 

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

  3. 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)

  4. Kwelekw mocho weesh neenee rek'eeen 'eemee nepehl kwelekw weet kee 'we-tene'mek' nepuy kue weet 'we-loksee'hl.
    But if they sit around and do not eat, it means that salmon will be plentiful that year.

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

  5. Nahksemee loksee'hl.
    It is three years.

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

  6. k'ee we'yk'oh 'we-lookseehlek'
    this year

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)

  7. Keech ko'r 'we-lokseehlek'.
    (It's been) one year.

    — Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)

  8. Kwesee' keech 'o ko'r nee loksee'hl weeshtue' kem 'o 'o chyuuek'wee'n 'o ko'moyo'm ko'l kye kwen 'o ruerowo'm.
    One year went by, again she sat down there, then she heard some place there was singing.

    — Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)

  9. Peesh, kwesee 'o loksee'hl, kwesee 'eeshkuue 'ee weeshtue' so'n, keech tue' weeshtue' ho soo gego'l. 'Ishkuue nee slo'ehlko'.
    Well, then it was a year, and slowly it was like this, since he had gone around like that. Slowly he wasted away.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)

  10. Neemee' wo woomehl k'ee 'we-loksee'hl.
    There are not many acorns this year.

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