Dictionary entry
chemeen • n • 1 hog's fennel 2 doctor's pain
Lexicon record # 76 | Source reference(s):
R190 RS(YN159)
Semantic
domain: plants and trees
YN159: "The word chemin is used by people other than doctors to denote medicine for salmon or sturgeon or game."
Sentence examples (2)
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Worue 'o cho' ko slepoh k'e-chemeen.
Put your chemin up there.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-045) (LA138-045, 1980)
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Sku'y k'e-chemeen ke'l.
Your pain is good.— Robert Spott, Sentences in Spott and Kroeber's Yurok Narratives (YN, 1942)