Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

neke'y • vn • call, name

Lexicon record # 2106 | Source reference(s): R228 YLCB11

Sentence examples (5)

1. Kues soo neke'y...?
   What's the word for ...?

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)

2. 'Ahtemar soo neke'y.
   It is called paper.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)

3. Kue wee' hegohkuemeen kwelekw Charlie Williams 'we-chekoh weesh 'ue-peechowos Pewolew 'o meweemor weet soo neke'y.
   The man who performed the ceremony was the grandfather of Charlie Williams' mother, and was called the Old Man of Pewolew.

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

4. Tmery 'We-Roy kwelekw kue 'woogey soo hegonee Requea 'emsee kue 'oohl soo neke'y Rek'woy 'enuemee wogee 'we-raayoy.
   Cannery Creek is the creek between the place white men call Requa and the place the Indians call Rek'woy.

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

5. Kues soo neke'y?
   What is that called?

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