Dictionary entry
slekw • n • clothes (a single set)
Lexicon record # 3138 | Source reference(s): R249
Sentence examples (5)
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Mye-goot-'es k'es-lekw.
Put on your clothes.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 10: "Comb your hair. Daily routines" (GT3-10, 2003)
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Ne-goh-se-nes k'es-lekw!
Take off your clothes! — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 10: "Comb your hair. Daily routines" (GT3-10, 2003)
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Nek 'och-kaa ye-kwo-ye-kwoh 'nes-lekw.
I am folding clothes. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)
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Keech hlkey-yo-mee' kue 'nes-lekw.
My clothes got muddy. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-011) (LA138-011, 1980)
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'O gee' cho', Knok-see-me'm kue 'woo-gey son k'es-lekw; kol-chee wohl-ke-chee' tue' ko' 'o nerr-ger-se'm, weet kee chpee 'o ne-pe'm kue me-wee-mor 'we-ro-mech 'ue-pe-wo-mek', 'ohl-kue-mee wok kem nee-ko'l 'woh-ke-pek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee-'ee-yen pe-gerk.
He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)