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kesomewet

Dictionary entry

kesomewet • adv • on the left

Lexicon record # 842 | Source reference(s): FS(B202)
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (8)

  1. Mocho keech 'o newoo'm kue teekwohl, noohl 'emkee k'e-kesomewet neke'm kue nepuy, kem kee neekee k'e-soo negemek' neemoksue kem won 'o ko nekue'.
    When you see the low gap, then you put it on your left shoulder, and from then on you carry it like that and it must not be put in any other position.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  2. Ke'l cho kenuemee sonowo'm, 'emkee kwelekw ku'y 'ue-pahtuen kue k'e-smechoy kue k'e-nekomewet kee so 'ok'w, kue 'ue-werhl k'e-kesomewet kee so 'ok'w, 'emsee k'e-roowo's kwelekw nuemee k'e-yaahl kee 'ok'w.
    You do just as I do, and then the neck of your deerskin will be on your right, and its tail will be on your left, and your pipe will be right over your belly.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  3. Noohl kue laayekw 'we-rewon 'o chyuuek'we'n kue meweemor, noohl 'o ga'm, 'Ne-kesomewet cho 'o chekcheye'm.
    Then the old man sat down at the end of the path, and said, Sit down on my left.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  4. Mocho weet keech ho neskwechoo'm kue k'e-kesomewet 'o nekom kue k'e-ma'ah kue puelekw 'ne-le'moh, cho noohl kue k'e-kesomewet 'o loote'm kue nepuy.
    When you come to where you put your spear on your left shoulder when we came down to the river mouth, then throw the fish on to your left shoulder.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  5. Noohl kue 'ue-kesomewet 'emehl hlohlpep' kue 'o'lepeek 'we-sootok'.
    With his left hand he lowered himself into the house.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  6. Kue k'e-kesomewet cho 'oloneme'm!
    Carry it in your left hand!

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  7. 'U-pahtuen kue k'e-smechoy kue k'e-kesomewet kee so 'ok'w.
    The neck of your deerskin is to lie on your left.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)