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)
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Mo keech chme'y, mo keech 'o che-po-re'hl.
When it's evening it gets cold outside.
— Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)
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Nek kwe-lekw nee-mee kom-chue-mek' kwen ko'l kee ne-pek'. '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)
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Koy-poh 'em-see kee 'o chme'y 'o nerr-ger's.
In the morning and evening he gathered sweathouse wood.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Keech chme'y lekw-seesh 'o soo-to'l kue me-wee-mor, hee-noy 'o 'o-ro-go' kue 'nep-sech.
In the evening the old man went out, and my father followed him.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Keet 'o chme'y 'o nerr-ger's.
As evening fell he gathered sweathouse wood.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nee-kee ho chme'y.
Then it was evening.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nee-kee k'ee kwen ho chme'y noohl hoh-kue-moh.
We went on working right until nightfall.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Hle-nue-tue' chme'y noohl 'oohl-ke's 'o 'er'-gerrch.
He lay in the sweathouse until finally it was evening.— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)