Dictionary entry
hewon • adv • first, at first
Lexicon record # 467 | Source reference(s): R199
Sentence examples (8)
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Hewon nee kwoore'y kue wenchokws we'yk'oh tue' keech heemoore'y.
At the beginning the woman was going slow, now she's hurrying.
— Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences with oo-Class Verbs (JB-14-1, 2003)
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Kwesee 'O Regos noohl 'ela myah kwesee kue hewon 'we-seeyowek'.
Then he leaped on to the rock Oregos as the boat was first breasting the breakers.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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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)
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Hewon 'we-newoyhl 'woogey negee'eehl chaahl 'we-laaye'mek' 'o ko tye'wolee' koleen kue 'o'lehl kue 'o megetohlkwonee kue roowo's, na'amee tmohkelee' k'ee roowo's.
When white men were first seen there were two of them walking along the sands, and at that time one of the houses was burnt down where the pipes were kept, and one pipe was broken in two places.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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K'ee cherwerseek' hegor wee'eeet wee' 'o we' hewon 'o rohsee' k'ee nepe'woo.
It was in the seventh month that the salmon was first speared there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Hewon ko chpega'ro'y kue meweemor ho kue 'we-romech 'w-egolek', To's nee mok'w sonolewkwe'm?
First the old man questioned his niece and said, Is there anything in which you are sexually unclean?— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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'O ga'm Paa', noohl 'o gee', Ke'l kee nergerykerr'm; ke'l kee peme'm k'ee hewon koh k'ee nepuy.
She said No, and then he said, You will help; you will cook the first salmon that we catch.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Hewon 'we-newoyk' nepuy cho 'o hegoose'm, noohl nek kue 'o ma'ahskuemek'.
When a salmon is first seen shout, and I will come and spear it.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)