Dictionary entry
Tmery 'WeRoy • n • Cannery Creek
Lexicon record # 3607 | Source reference(s):
R257
Semantic
domain: place names
Sentence examples (4)
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Noohl Tmery 'WeRoy ho reee-gor tue' wee-'eeet noohl 'o gee' Pe-wo-lew.
Waves came up as far as Cannery Creek, and this was then called Pewolew.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Tmery 'WeRoy kwe-lekw kue 'woo-gey soo he-go-nee Requea 'em-see kue 'oohl soo ne-ke'y Rek'-woy 'e-nue-mee wo-gee 'we-raa-yoy.
Cannery Creek is the creek between the place white men call Requa and the place the Indians call Rek'woy.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Mo-cho Tmery 'WeRoy hehl-kue 'o soo-tok'w ne-puy kwe-lekw ko' ne-pue' k'ee kwen cho hehl-kue no'-mo-ye'-we'y tue' wee-'eeet chpee ne-pue', kue pa-'aahl 'wet-me-no-men kwe-lekw nee-mee ne-pue'.
If a salmon came ashore at Cannery Creek people could eat whichever part faced away from the water, and this alone was eaten, the half that was toward the water was not eaten.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kue Tmery 'WeRoy 'wehee-pech kwe-lekw nee koh-che-wee' noohl kee-kee chue wee 'o ne-pee'm.
What was caught upstream from Cannery Creek everyone could eat.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)