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'ne-nah

Dictionary entry

'ne-nah • n dep • my property, my belongings

Lexicon record # 2403 | Source reference(s): R226

Special meanings or uses

  • Ne-kee' 'ne-nah It belongs to me, it is mine JE18 JE89

  • Ne-kah 'ne-nah It belongs to us, it is ours JE18

  • Wo'hl tue' 'we-nah It belongs to them, it is theirs JE18

  • Yo'hl-koh 'we-nah It belongs to them, it is theirs JE18

  • Ke-lee' k'e-nah It belongs to you, it is yours JE18

Sentence examples (4)

  1. Ko'-mo'y hee-noy keech 'o noo-loo, 'o ge's, Cheesh, kwe-see keech kom-chue-mehl keech 'ne-nah.
    He heard them behind him answering, and he thought, Well, now (the folk there) know that the salmon are mine.

    — Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)

  2. Kem 'ok'w paas weesh-tue' yo' nee ye-go'l 'we-sek' kee nue-mee chue kue nee-mee kwe-les k'ee 'we-nah, ha's, Kos-'e-la nek 'ne-nah.
    Then he does not go around thinking that what is not his property should all be his, (and he does not) think, Would that it were mine.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  3. Ke'l ho k'e-nah.
    It used to be yours.

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