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'eme

Dictionary entry

'eme • pv • past time

Lexicon record # 4249 | Source reference(s): R269

Sentence examples (8)

  1. 'Eme ga'm, Chue kue neeege'yoh kue negeee'nowoh; kwelekw keech menechok'w kue 'ne-ka'ar.
    He said, Let us both go together and look; my pet has disappeared.

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

  2. 'Eme ge'wonee'hl kue 'we-rahcheen, keskeesh 'o le'mehl.
    His friend woke up, (and) they went down to the water.

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

  3. Kwelekw keech koosee maama'epoyew, 'yoncheek 'eme loo, mee' keech chegeyonahpee' kue Segep kue keech no'omehl 'o wee'.
    He was all tied up, and thrown into the boat, because people were fed up with Coyote ever since he had been there.

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

  4. Kue kohchew 'we-choomoyhl, 'o 'owook kee ko rohsee' kue nepuy 'eme ga'm kue meweemor, Cho now le'mo'w 'o kue nuemee 'o'lehl; kwelekw nekah keech chpee ko nahkseyoh.
    On the sixth day and the next day the salmon would be speared, the old man said, Go away all of you from the main house; we three shall be here alone.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  5. Kue so heer sootoh kue meweemor kolo 'eme lekwo'hl 'ue-meykweluue'm 'o Rek'woy, kue keech 'o kohchewonee kue nepuy.
    When the old man went away from the water the air seemed full of wailing over at Requa, now that the salmon was caught.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  6. Noohl 'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw me'womechok'w 'oohl 'eme ga'm, Pekwsue hes keech kee wohpeye'moh 'o kue laayekw?
    Then a man came from 'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw and said, May we not now cross over the path?

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  7. Markwenee 'eme neee'n.
    He looked everywhere.

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

  8. Keech 'eme hlmeyor, chuehl heemerk'ses keekee k'e-nes!
    They will not fear you, so come quickly!

    — Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)