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puelekuek

Dictionary entry

puelekuek • adv • down river, at the river mouth

Lexicon record # 2722 | Source reference(s): R241
Semantic domain: directions and locations

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Sentence examples (13)

  1. Won keech lekoyo'. Puelekuek nee lekoyo'.
    It's flowing the wrong way. It's flowing downriver.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-020) (LA138-020, 1980)

  2. Tepoono'y ra'ayo'r, tue' puelekuek keech 'o pkwo'rep', keech pkwo'rep'.
    It runs into the forest, downriver and out into the open.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)

  3. [Ch'ue'ch'eesh hes wee' k'ee kelok?] Kelok weet kem woogeen... Kegahselo'm 'oohl kelok. 'esee puelekuek' soo keme'y. 'ue-psech puelekuek sootok'w...
    [Is the goose a ch'u'ch'ish?] Goose is different. Goose is a stranger to people. It goes north to its home. Its father was from the north.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  4. Kwesee noohl 'o newo'm 'w-esek' kwelekw puelekuek wee keet 'we-sonchoyek'.
    Then he saw that it was being taken down the river.

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

  5. Noohl 'o ga'm kue meweemor ho kue 'ne-psech, Cho kem noohl puelekuek ho neee'nowo'm.
    Then the old man said to my father, Look down the river.

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

  6. Noohl ska'ehlke'n hohkuem ho puelekuek ho pecheek ho perwer'k'uek 'emsee ho wohpewk.
    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)

  7. Nekah neeko'l puelekuek nee nue 'n-oole'moh.
    We always go down to the river mouth.

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

  8. Noohl newo'm 'w-esek' kwelekw puelekuek keet 'we-sonchoyek'.
    Then he saw it begin to be paddled down stream.

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

  9. Puelekuek so chween.
    He prayed to the north.

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

  10. Puelekuek 'w-erpkeryko nee mehl hohpkecho'l. Tue' weeshtue' me'womecho'l.
    He began downriver from where the river starts. That's where he came from.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)

  11. Cheenkuen son' puelekuek 'o lo'omah tue' k'ee nee regaayoy.
    They started to run downriver in the small creeks.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  12. Puelekuek kee nomoyewe'm.
    You will put your head downriver.

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)

  13. Puelekuek 'o soo, noohl kee 'o kwom, noohl kee 'o kwomhlecho
    Go downriver, then you will come back, then you will come back.

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)