Dictionary entry
ne-ke'y • vn • call, name
Lexicon record # 2106 | Source reference(s): R228 YLCB11
Sentence examples (5)
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Kues soo ne-ke'y...?
What's the word for ...?
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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'Ahte-mar soo ne-ke'y.
It is called paper. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)
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Kue wee' he-goh-kue-meen kwe-lekw Charlie Williams 'we-che-koh weesh 'ue-pee-cho-wos Pe-wo-lew 'o me-wee-mor weet soo ne-ke'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)
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Tmery 'WeRoy kwe-lekw kue 'woo-gey soo he-go-nee Requea 'em-see kue 'oohl soo ne-ke'y Rek'-woy 'e-nue-mee wo-gee 'we-raa-yoy.
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)
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Kues soo ne-ke'y?
What is that called?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)