Dictionary entry
keskee • adv • down, down below, down to the river • Variant keskeek
Lexicon record # 838 | Source reference(s): R206 JE43 JE44
Other paradigm form
obviative keskeesh R206
Sentence examples (24)
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Keskee kee so hegook'.
I'm going to go down at the river.
— Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Keskee kee sootok'.
I'm going to go down to the river. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Keskee keetee nee nue hegook'.
I'm going to the river. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)
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Keskee keetee sooychok'.
I'm going to travel downriver. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-038) (LA138-038, 1980)
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Keskee cho' 'o neee'nowo'm kues keech ho mek'wop'.
Look down by the river to see if the water is high. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-047) (LA138-047, 1980)
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Keskee ko rohko'r.
It rolls down. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Keskee keech rohko'r.
It's rolling down(hill). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Keskee keech ho myegah.
It (a rock) is jumping down. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Keskeek so myegah ha'aag.
A rock was jumping down (a rocky hillside). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Keskee ho 'olonekw hlkehl.
There was land down there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Kwesee keskee 'o lege'moh 'ne-'yohhlkoych'.
And we used to go down (for) our wood.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Tue' k'ee otter keskee, period.
These otters down below, period.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Tue' weet 'o soo keskee so keromoh ... 'ohlkuemee wo'oohl ... kue keromoh.
That's how the car got downhill, because the car ... with it.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Hlow keskee 'ela nuue'moh.
Finally we got down (to the creek).— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Soo wee'eeet ho keskeek 'o lo'omah 'ue-kemeye'mehl. That's all.
So they ran down and went home. That's all.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Two Boys Kill a Donkey" (LA181-16, 1986)
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Mocho kergerk' so keskee, 'o negemek' merwperh, tue' 'ahtemar mega'epoyew.
When I was alone down at the river, I brought food, and it was wrapped in paper.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Feeding Otters" (LA181-31, 1986)
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Keskee raayo'repek'?
I run along the river, below.— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences from "Notes on Yurok Derivation" (1985) (NYD, 1985)
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K'ehl nuemee to'm kue mewah, kwesee keet 'o pe'l weet 'o so'n keskee chpee nee yegok'w mos wey 'ue-kertkerk'.
The boy was very small, but as he began to grow up it turned out that all he would do was to go down to the water's edge and was never done with fishing for trout.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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'O gee', Nah cho he'woneehlkwene'm kue k'e-rahcheen keskee cho' le'mo'w.
He was told, Wake your friend up and both of you go down to the water.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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'Eme ge'wonee'hl kue 'we-rahcheen, keskeesh 'o le'mehl.
His friend woke up, (and) they went down to the water.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Keskee 'emehl hekwsek'.
I found it down there.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Keskee pa'aahl ko 'o sootok'.
I am going down to the water.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Keskee neekee sootok'w.
She went right down towards the river.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)
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Weet ko weykom' keskee 'we-raayoy 'we-tetkonek'.
He finished it, the downhill creek's ravines.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)