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pyuech

Dictionary entry

pyuech • adv • well, all right

Lexicon record # 2769 | Source reference(s): R241

Special meanings or uses

  • keech mee' pyuech so'n he is dead [literally, "he is not now well"] R241 JE40

  • pyuech so'n right JE112 YLCB36

Sentence examples (9)

  1. Nuemee pyuech so'n!
    It's just right!

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)

  2. Nuemee pyuech so'n.
    It's just right.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-05-3a) (JB-05-3a, 2002)

  3. Nuemee pyuech soo newee' kue kwerhl.
    The picture looks just right.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-05-3a) (JB-05-3a, 2002)

  4. Pyuech 'we-son.
    It's alright.

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

  5. Pyuech toomoneehl.
    The price is right.

    — Jimmie James, Jimmie James ... Come on Down! (JJ-COD, 2004)

  6. Keech mee' pyuech so'n.
    He is not well now (euphemism = he is dead).

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

  7. Kwelekw weesh ko 'ue-pyuech sonowohl keekee 'wo-'ohkwek' 'ue-pa'aanah."
    It will be right for them to have water."

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

  8. 'Ohlkuemee kwelekw wee' keehl pyuech son' 'w-oole'mek' 'oohl mocho kee 'ok'w 'ue-pa'aanah keekee 'w-oole'mek'."
    Because it will be good for people's living if they have water so they will live."

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

  9. Sonenee soonosek', 'n-esek', mosee' kee 'ue-pyuech sook mocho kee mok'w 'ue-pa'aanah.
    I think this way, thinking, it's not right if they don't have water.

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