Dictionary entry
te-won • n • 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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To' hes keech 'o gohp-kok too'm k'e-te-won
Did you weigh the meat?— Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)