Dictionary entry
tee'n • pron interrogative • what?
Lexicon record # 3559 | Source reference(s): R256
Sentence examples (11)
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Tue' weet 'o te-to-lo-hlehl, tue' weet keech 'o ten, tue' weet tee'n mehl 'we-ten.
They cry and it rains, that's why it rains.
— Georgiana Trull, Moon and His Wife (GT2, 2003)
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[Hoore'mos hes wee' k'ee ne-pe'-weesh-neg?] 'Ee, tee'n tue' mehl hee' ne-pe'-weesh-neg. Nee-kee-chue 'we-ne-pek'.
[Is the otter a hoore'mos?] Yes, that's why he's called otter. He eats anything. — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)
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Tee'n k'ee kwe-nee so-no-wo-nee tee'n kwe-nee nuek'-wo 'o yoh?
Who are you and what on earth are you doing here?— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Tee'n mehl nue he-goo'm?
What are you going for?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Tee'n ske-wok?
What do you want?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Tee'n mehl nue he-goo'm?
What have you come for?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Tee'n nee 'uuek-soh?
Whose children?— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)
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Tee'n kye kwen kee ko'l mehl ne-pe'-moh?
How are we going to get our food?— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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'O le'm Se-gep, Tee'n kee nah-cha' mo-cho' kee yekw-sek'?
Coyote said,What will you give me if I find it?— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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Teen' k'ee kwe-nee k'e-mehl mey-yoo-mo-yek'?
Who is it that made you pregnant?— Susie of Wechpus, Wetsqaaq song (SW4, 1902)