Dictionary entry
per-wer'-k'uek • adv • south
Lexicon record # 2707 | Source reference(s): R240 JE43 JE125
Sentence examples (3)
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Kwe-see kue chee-no-me-wes so he-gok'w, kwe-see tue' per-wer'-k'uek 'o soo-tok'w.
And the young man left, and he went far south on the coast.— Georgiana Trull, Potato Boy (GT4, 2007)
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Noohl ska-'ehl-ke'n hoh-kuem ho pue-le-kuek ho pe-cheek ho per-wer'-k'uek 'em-see ho woh-pewk.
Then he scattered tobacco to the north, to the east, to the south, and to the west.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kwe-see weesh-tue 'o ho nes-kwe-chok'w Ho-'o-wen. Ho-'o-wens ho nes-kwe-chok'w. Per-wer'-k'uek keet wo soo-to' mo-kee.
That is how he came to Ho'owen. He came to Ho'owen. He was going south then.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)