Dictionary entry
he-won • adv • first, at first
Lexicon record # 467 | Source reference(s): R199
Sentence examples (8)
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He-won nee kwoo-re'y kue wen-chokws we'yk-'oh tue' keech hee-moo-re'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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Kwe-see 'O Re-gos noohl 'e-la myah kwe-see kue he-won 'we-see-yo-wek'.
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 Se-gep kem keech 'e-kwehl keech mee chween-kep', mee' ho to-mo-wo'hl tue' hlow keech 'o chkee-ree-shee' kue wee 'o key, tue' nee-mee wo he-won ne-wo'm 'we-sek' kwe-lekw ko-lo 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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He-won 'we-ne-woyhl 'woo-gey ne-gee-'eehl chaahl 'we-laa-ye'-mek' 'o ko tye'-wo-lee' ko-leen kue 'o'-lehl kue 'o me-ge-tohl-kwo-nee kue roo-wo's, na-'a-mee tmoh-ke-lee' k'ee roo-wo'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 cher-wer-seek' he-gor wee-'eeet wee' 'o we' he-won 'o roh-see' k'ee ne-pe'-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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He-won ko chpe-ga'-ro'y kue me-wee-mor ho kue 'we-ro-mech 'we-go-lek', To's nee mok'w so-no-lew-kwe'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 ner-gery-kerr'm; ke'l kee pe-me'm k'ee he-won koh k'ee ne-puy.
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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He-won 'we-ne-woyk' ne-puy cho 'o he-goo-se'm, noohl nek kue 'o ma-'ahs-kue-mek'.
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)