Yurok dictionary

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'ekw

Dictionary entry

'ekw • adv • just, exactly

Lexicon record # 4230 | Source reference(s): R269

Sentence examples (4)

  1. Weet 'ekw ma soo hegook'.
    That is exactly how I went.

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

  2. Peesh wee 'ekw so'n.
    Well, that is just what happened.

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

  3. Weeshtue' so'n 'ekw. Keetkwo lego 'oolekwohl Lerger'l.
    This is exactly how it was. Buzzard was still a person.

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

  4. So'n 'ekw, keech neemok'w 'we-tewon, 'ohlkuemee weeshtue' keech 'ue me'womechkok'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)