Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

chme'y • v imp e-class • it is evening

Lexicon record # 189 | Source reference(s): R192
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Sentence examples (8)

1. Mo keech chme'y, mo keech 'o chepore'hl.
   When it's evening it gets cold outside.

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

2. Nek kwelekw neemee komchuemek' kwen ko'l kee nepek'. 'Enee cho nee keech chme'y.
   I don't know when I'm going to eat. Maybe in the evening.

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

3. Koypoh 'emsee kee 'o chme'y 'o nerrger's.
   In the morning and evening he gathered sweathouse wood.

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

4. Keech chme'y lekwseesh 'o sooto'l kue meweemor, heenoy 'o 'orogo' kue 'ne-psech.
   In the evening the old man went out, and my father followed him.

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

5. Keet 'o chme'y 'o nerrger's.
   As evening fell he gathered sweathouse wood.

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

6. Neekee ho chme'y.
   Then it was evening.

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

7. Neekee k'ee kwen ho chme'y noohl hohkuemoh.
   We went on working right until nightfall.

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

8. Hlenuetue' chme'y noohl 'oohlke's 'o 'er'gerrch.
   He lay in the sweathouse until finally it was evening.

   — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)