Dictionary entry
ske-leek • adv • down
Lexicon record # 3060 | Source reference(s):
R247
Semantic
domain: directions and locations
Sentence examples (7)
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Nek ske-leek kee 'oo-lee-nek'.
I am going to lie down.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-003) (LA138-003, 1980)
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Tue' wee-'eeet nek soo, mehl mee' sku'y soo 'ok'w 'o pue-lekw, sku'y soo rek'-woyk k'ee pa-'ah, 'ohl-kue-mee ske-leek wee-'eeet, he-sek' nek.
This is what I think, because it's good at the river mouth, the water is good at the river mouth, because it's down there, I think.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)
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Ske-leek nee 'oo' wee-'eeet tue' kue ce-ment kue ho werh-per-yerh 'o kem mee' 'ee keech mo-'ok'w 'o yo' 'ohl-kue-mee kee le-wo-lah mos chee-taa ko'l sook koh-che-wohl.
It's down below, the cement that used to be a bridge, because it's not there anymore, because ... they couldn't catch anything at all.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)
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Peesh, weesh-tue' 'o laa'y ske-leek 'o laa'y kwe-les kem noo-le-nee kue ne-puy koo-see hoo-le'm.
So he passed along, he passed down (on the river bed) and the salmon went all round him.— Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)
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Noohl pa-'aa-hleek ske-leek 'o-lo-nekw.
It lay deep down in the water.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Myoot' ko-weesh so ske-leek.
He pushed the pole down.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kues chperr-nerysh so ske-leek?
How deep is it to the bottom?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)