Yurok dictionary

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pyeweg

Dictionary entry

pyeweg • vn • perform the white deerskin dance • n • white deerskin dance

Lexicon record # 2766 | Source reference(s): FS(B212) WG(WEM47) R241 JE39 JE40
Semantic domain: ceremonies and dances

Other paradigm form

  • locative pyewegonohl R241

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Pyeweg.
    Jumpdance.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 21: "Culture" (GT3-21, 2003)

  2. Huep'oo keetee 'o pyeweg.
    There will be a deerskin dance in Hupa.

    Audio 

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-033) (LA138-033, 1980)

  3. Keech helomeyek' 'o kue pyeweg.
    I have been dancing in the deerskin dance.

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