Dictionary entry
smechoy • vn • skin a large animal • n • 1 tanned deerskin 2 man's loin-covering of buckskin, worn in summer
Lexicon record # 3182 | Source reference(s):
FS(B215) R249 JE41 FS(B215)
Semantic
domains: clothes and cloth objects; hunting and fishing
Sentence examples (4)
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'O na'a'n hlo'm, tue' smechoy weesh 'ue-mehl hlook'.
Then he brought two, and deerskins were what he brought.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Hela' we'y k'e-smechoy; k'e-to' kee laa'y.
Here is your deerskin; it must pass around your hips.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Ke'l cho kenuemee sonowo'm, 'emkee kwelekw ku'y 'ue-pahtuen kue k'e-smechoy kue k'e-nekomewet kee so 'ok'w, kue 'ue-werhl k'e-kesomewet kee so 'ok'w, 'emsee k'e-roowo's kwelekw nuemee k'e-yaahl kee 'ok'w.
You do just as I do, and then the neck of your deerskin will be on your right, and its tail will be on your left, and your pipe will be right over your belly.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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'U-pahtuen kue k'e-smechoy kue k'e-kesomewet kee so 'ok'w.
The neck of your deerskin is to lie on your left.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)