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'weskwehl

Dictionary entry

'weskwehl • n • 1 body, flesh 2 family member

Lexicon record # 4077 | Source reference(s): R263 FS(B219)

Other paradigm forms

  • short form 'wes

  • locative 'weskwelohl

Special meaning or use

  • mehl hewomee' weskwehl sun [literally, "that which warms the body"] YSU995 YSRO471 [astronomy and the sky]

Sentence examples (4)

  1. 'O lem', " Kwelekw kue nek 'ne-weskwelohl kee mer'wermeryk'.
    She said, "It will flow from my body.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  2. Kue nek 'ne-weskwelohl kee mer'wermeryk'."
    It will flow from my body."

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  3. 'Ue-weskwelohl mer'wermeryk', tue' weetue' 'ue-pa'aanah k'ee wek 'we-raayoy.
    From her body issued the water of this river.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  4. Keech 'o meneykwenoomelek' 'ne-'weskwehl.
    People are afraid of my body.

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)