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 ne-kek' I misplaced it [literally, "I put it down"] JE89
Sentence examples (5)
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Kwe-see wee-'eeet keech 'e-nue-mee plop', 'eesh-kuue mo-'ok'w kue ... 'ue-kaa-mo-pek''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 sloy-chok'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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Kwe-see' kue 'wah-pe-wehl 'em won-ke-wehl 'o kas keech tem le-gee' Se-gep, 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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Kwe-see' koy-poh kue 'uekue-chos 'em ne-wo'm kes 'oohl-ke'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 sloy-cho'm.
Then he thought, I will stop, when he had descended.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)