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te-won

Dictionary entry

te-wonn • flesh

Lexicon record # 3538 | Source reference(s): R255 JE55
Semantic domain: body parts and the body

Other paradigm form

  • short form tew

Sentence examples (4)

  1. Nee-kee koo-see le-pe'hl 'ne-tew.
    My body aches all over.

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

  2. Kwelekw weet kee mehl he-wo-lo-che'm, mo wee-'eeet tue' mehl slo-'ehl-koo'm, keech mehl mok'w k'e-te-won. Wek hehl neee'-nes k'e'-wes!
    You will get well from that, for you are thin, you no longer have flesh. Look at yourself!

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)

  3. So'n 'ekw, keech nee-mok'w 'we-te-won, 'ohl-kue-mee weesh-tue' keech 'ue me'-wo-mech-kok'w.
    That is just how he was, he now had no flesh, because he had become sick from that.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)

  4. To' hes keech 'o gohp-kok too'm k'e-te-won
    Did you weigh the meat?

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)