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chmey-yok-see'hl

Dictionary entry

chmey-yok-see'hl • v imp e-class • it is evening, it is dusk, it is late

Lexicon record # 185 | Source reference(s): R192 YLCB75 YLCB78
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Keech chmey-yok-see'hl.
    It's dusk.

    Audio 

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

  2. Keech chmey-yok-see'hl.
    It's getting late.

    Audio 

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

  3. Tue weesh-tue 'e-mehl ke-ge-so-me-we'hl nee-kee mehl chmey-yok-see'hl.
    That is why he was constantly sorry as it began to be evening.

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