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markwenee

Dictionary entry

markwenee • adv • everything [takes pronominal prefixes]

Lexicon record # 1586 | Source reference(s): R222

Special meaning or use

  • k'ee markwenee sonowonee all kinds of R222

Sentence examples (7)

  1. Markwenee 'eme neee'n.
    He looked everywhere.

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

  2. Ke'l neekee ma markwenee ho serneryerh.
    You have seen everything.

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

  3. Nek keech 'ne-markwenee serneryerh.
    I have seen everything.

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

  4. To' 'ue-markwenee nep' 'o'loolekweesh'ol, keeto 'ue-markwenee nep'.
    A human being eats everything, he will eat everything.

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

  5. Tema meyrkwenee sootok'w kem 'o wonoye'eek.
    For a long time he went all over the sky.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  6. 'O lem', " Kwelekw kee nuemee meyrkwenee k'ee toomenee.
    She said "It will be all over.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)