Dictionary entry
pye-weg • 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 pye-we-go-nohl R241
Sentence examples (3)
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Pye-weg.
Jumpdance.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 21: "Culture" (GT3-21, 2003)
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Huep-'oo kee-tee 'o pye-weg.
There will be a deerskin dance in Hupa. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-033) (LA138-033, 1980)
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Keech he-lo-mey-yek' 'o kue pye-weg.
I have been dancing in the deerskin dance.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)