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'ekwehl

Dictionary entry

'ekwehl • vn • be afraid

Lexicon record # 4231 | Source reference(s): R269 GT5

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Nek 'ekwehl.
    I am scared.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Classroom vocabulary sentences (GT5) (GT5, 1998)

  2. Tue' kem Segep kem keech 'ekwehl keech mee chweenkep', mee' ho tomowo'hl tue' hlow keech 'o chkeereeshee' kue wee 'o key, tue' neemee wo hewon newo'm 'w-esek' kwelekw kolo hlkehl wee'.
    Even Coyote was now afraid and did not talk, because he had been chattering and at last had felt drowsy where he was sitting, and was not the first to see that it looked like land in sight.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  3. Mos ko pah soo 'ekwehl.
    He did not move he was so frightened.

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