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hoolehlkenek'

Dictionary entry

hoolehlkenek' • vt e-class • I stir a fire, I bank a fire

Lexicon record # 611 | Source references: R201 JE14
Derivation: morphological structure hool-ehlk-ene-

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Kue keech 'o 'oo' 'we-lo'og kue 'wo'hlp'ey' noohl 'o hlom' skueyenee koweesh 'o goolehlken' mee' kee shoo mechewolo'.
    When the embers of the angelica root were left, she took out a stout stick and heaped them up so that they would glow.

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

  2. 'O goolehlken' mee' kee soo mechewolo'.
    He stirred them (the embers) up so that they would glow.

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