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pue-le-kuek

Dictionary entry

pue-le-kuek • adv • down river, at the river mouth

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

Derived phrase or compound

Sentence examples (13)

  1. Won keech le-ko-yo'. Pue-le-kuek nee le-ko-yo'.
    It's flowing the wrong way. It's flowing downriver.

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

  2. Te-poo-no'y ra-'a-yo'r, tue' pue-le-kuek 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 ke-lok?] Ke-lok weet kem woo-geen... Ke-gah-se-lo'm 'oohl ke-lok. 'e-see pue-le-kuek' soo ke-me'y. 'uepsech pue-le-kuek soo-tok'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. Kwe-see noohl 'o ne-wo'm 'we-sek' kwe-lekw pue-le-kuek wee keet 'we-son-cho-yek'.
    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 me-wee-mor ho kue 'nep-sech, Cho kem noohl pue-le-kuek ho neee'-no-wo'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-'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)

  7. Ne-kah nee-ko'l pue-le-kuek nee nue 'noo-le'-moh.
    We always go down to the river mouth.

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

  8. Noohl ne-wo'm 'we-sek' kwe-lekw pue-le-kuek keet 'we-son-cho-yek'.
    Then he saw it begin to be paddled down stream.

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

  9. Pue-le-kuek so chween.
    He prayed to the north.

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

  10. Pue-le-kuek 'werp-keryko nee mehl hohp-ke-cho'l. Tue' weesh-tue' me'-wo-me-cho'l.
    He began downriver from where the river starts. That's where he came from.

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

  11. Cheen-kuen son' pue-le-kuek 'o lo-'o-mah tue' k'ee nee re-gaa-yoy.
    They started to run downriver in the small creeks.

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

  12. Pue-le-kuek kee no-mo-ye-we'm.
    You will put your head downriver.

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

  13. Pue-le-kuek 'o soo, noohl kee 'o kwom, noohl kee 'o kwom-hle-cho
    Go downriver, then you will come back, then you will come back.

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