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'e-me

Dictionary entry

'e-me • pv • past time

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

Sentence examples (8)

  1. 'Eme ga'm, Chue kue neee-ge'-yoh kue ne-geee'-no-woh; kwe-lekw keech me-ne-chok'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'-wo-nee'hl kue 'we-rah-cheen, kes-keesh '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. Kwe-lekw keech koo-see maa-ma-'e-po-yew, 'yon-cheek 'e-me loo, mee' keech che-gey-yo-nah-pee' kue Se-gep kue keech no-'o-mehl '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 koh-chew 'we-choo-moyhl, 'o 'o-wook kee ko roh-see' kue ne-puy 'e-me ga'm kue me-wee-mor, Cho now le'-mo'w 'o kue nue-mee 'o'-lehl; kwe-lekw ne-kah keech chpee ko nahk-sey-yoh.
    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 soo-toh kue me-wee-mor ko-lo 'e-me le-kwo'hl 'ue-mey-kwe-luue'm 'o Rek'-woy, kue keech 'o koh-che-wo-nee kue ne-puy.
    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 'WeRe-pokw me'-wo-me-chok'w 'oohl 'e-me ga'm, Pekw-sue hes keech kee woh-pey-ye'-moh 'o kue laa-yekw?
    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. Mar-kwe-nee 'e-me neee'n.
    He looked everywhere.

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

  8. Keech 'e-me hlmey-yor, chuehl hee-merk'-ses kee-kee k'e-nes!
    They will not fear you, so come quickly!

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