Dictionary entry
kes-kee • adv • down, down below, down to the river • Variant kes-keek
Lexicon record # 838 | Source reference(s): R206 JE43 JE44
Other paradigm form
obviative kes-keesh R206
Sentence examples (24)
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Kes-kee kee so he-gook'.
I'm going to go down at the river.
— Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Kes-kee kee soo-tok'.
I'm going to go down to the river. — Glenn Moore, Sentences (AG-10) (AG-10, 2008)
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Kes-kee kee-tee nee nue he-gook'.
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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Kes-kee kee-tee sooy-chok'.
I'm going to travel downriver. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-038) (LA138-038, 1980)
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Kes-kee cho' 'o neee'-no-wo'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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Kes-kee ko roh-ko'r.
It rolls down. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Kes-kee keech roh-ko'r.
It's rolling down(hill). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Kes-kee keech ho mye-gah.
It (a rock) is jumping down. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Kes-keek so mye-gah ha-'aag.
A rock was jumping down (a rocky hillside). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-054) (LA138-054, 1980)
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Kes-kee ho 'o-lo-nekw hlkehl.
There was land down there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Kwe-see kes-kee 'o le-ge'-moh 'ne'-yoh-hlkoych'.
And we used to go down (for) our wood.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Tue' k'ee ot-ter kes-kee, period.
These otters down below, period.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)
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Tue' weet 'o soo kes-kee so ke-ro-moh ... 'ohl-kue-mee wo-'oohl ... kue ke-ro-moh.
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 kes-kee 'e-la 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 kes-keek 'o lo-'o-mah 'ue-ke-mey-ye'-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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Mo-cho ker-gerk' so kes-kee, 'o ne-ge-mek' merw-perh, tue' 'ah-te-mar me-ga-'e-po-yew.
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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Kes-kee raa-yo'-re-pek'?
I run along the river, below.— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences from "Notes on Yurok Derivation" (1985) (NYD, 1985)
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K'ehl nue-mee to'm kue me-wah, kwe-see keet 'o pe'l weet 'o so'n kes-kee chpee nee ye-gok'w mos wey 'ue-kert-kerk'.
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'-wo-neehl-kwe-ne'm kue k'e-rah-cheen kes-kee 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'-wo-nee'hl kue 'we-rah-cheen, kes-keesh '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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Kes-kee 'e-mehl hekw-sek'.
I found it down there.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kes-kee pa-'aahl ko 'o soo-tok'.
I am going down to the water.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kes-kee nee-kee soo-tok'w.
She went right down towards the river.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)
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Weet ko wey-kom' kes-kee 'we-raa-yoy 'we-tet-ko-nek'.
He finished it, the downhill creek's ravines.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)