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Hee-wow

Dictionary entry

Hee-wow • pn • a house in Rek'woy

Lexicon record # 4524 | Source reference: LA16-8
Semantic domain: place names

Other places in the Rek'woy area: Hehl-kue Serr, Hop-'ew, Hop-'ew Puel 'WeRoy, Hop-'ew 'WeRoy, Prgeesh 'O Chye-guuekw', Pue-leek Serr-nery, Rek'-woy, Tmery 'WeRoy, Wech-pues, Wehl-kwew, 'Yoch Le-gaay, 'O Ke-gep, 'O Kne-get, 'O Kwe-goh 'O Ket-'oh, 'O Men, 'O Men Hee-puer, 'O Men 'WeRoy, 'O Re-gos, 'O Sche-gep', 'R Hler-ger'

Sentence example (1)

  1. Koh-chew keech 'o choo-moyhl 'o nes-kwe-chokw' 'ue-me'-loh mehl kue Hee-wow 'o tek 'o'-lehl 'o Rek'-woy nue 'wech-pe-geyr', To's wee 'no-'o'hl keech kee 'na-'ahs-pee'-moh 'em-kee weet kee 'ne-soo 'e'-gah?
    Six days passed and a relative of his came from the house at Hiwow in Requa, and asked, May we now drink at home, and eat as we usually do?

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