Dictionary entry
hewolon • vn • heal, cure (the body, an illness)
Lexicon record # 463 | Source reference(s):
R199 JE36 JE67
Semantic
domain: health and sickness
Sentence examples (4)
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[Leyes hes wee' k'ee 'yekwhl?] Paa', wot kem neemee leyes. Chohpos weesh we-nohl weet 'o hewolon.
[Is the maggot a leyes?] no, that's not a snake. They're fly's excrement, they come al..
— Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)
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Kue meges ma hewolon kue teloge'monee.
The doctor cured the sick.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Ma hewolon kue nee 'oole'monee.
He came and healed those who were here.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Hewolon neekee too'm kue nee 'oole'monee.
He healed everyone who was there.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)