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tee'-nee'

Dictionary entry

tee'-nee' • pron interrogative • what?

Lexicon record # 3561 | Source reference(s): R256

Sentence examples (10)

  1. Tee'-nee mehl k'es-ke-wok kee k'ech-we-geen?
    What do you want to talk about?

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. Tee'-nee' 'we-no-'os?
    Whose basket is it?

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    — Jimmie James, Discussion of boats and boating (JJ-VC-1, 2005)

  3. Tee'-nee' k'es-ke-wok?
    What do you want?

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

  4. Tee'-nee' k'oh-kue-mek' 'o yo'?
    What are you doing here?

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

  5. Tee'-nee' nuek'-wo 'o pe-chow?
    What are you going to do up river?

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

  6. Tee'-nee' k'oh-kue-mek'?
    What are you doing?

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

  7. Tee'-nee' ske-wok-see-me'm?
    What do you want?

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

  8. Tee'-nee' sook?
    What sort is it?

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

  9. Tee'-nee' k'e-neee'n? Ch'ee-shah wee' 'ne-neee'n.
    What are you looking at? I'm looking at a dog.

    — Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)

  10. 'O ne-geee'-no'w so hee-noo. 'Oko, tee'-nee' 'wech-ween-ke-pek'? 'O ne'w kaap-'o-leehl yo' 'o pe-gah-chew.
    He looked back. Hey, who spoke to me? He saw a plant there moving around.

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