Dictionary entry
kes • adv • down
Lexicon record # 833 | Source reference(s):
JE89 FS(B202)
Semantic
domain: directions and locations
Special meaning or use
Keech kes nekek' I misplaced it [literally, "I put it down"] JE89
Sentence examples (5)
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Kwesee wee'eeet keech 'enuemee plop', 'eeshkuue mo'ok'w kue ... 'ue-kaamopek''o kes.
And it really flooded there, and slowly there wasn't any rough water down there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Klamath Bridge" (LA181-10, 1986)
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'O'l kas 'ee so sloychok'w reeek'ew, 'o laa'y so puel.
He went just down the river a little ways, he went downstream along the edge of the river.— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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Kwesee' kue 'w-ahpewehl 'em wonkewehl 'o kas keech tem legee' Segep, Ko'n nue' nep's.
His wives were soaking acorns down the river after trying to tell Coyote to go and eat.— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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Kwesee' koypoh kue 'ue-kuechos 'em newo'm kes 'oohlke's.
In the morning his grandmother saw him where he was lying.— Mary Marshall, Coyote Tries to Kill the Sun (MM4, 1927)
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Tue' nue we's, Ki weeexkwekw, kes 'o ho sloycho'm.
Then he thought, I will stop, when he had descended.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)