Yurok dictionary

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wohpekw

Dictionary entry

wohpekw • adv • across the sea, west

Lexicon record # 3913 | Source reference(s): R264
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (2)

  1. Nekah wee' neenee too'moh wohpekw 'o seekwer'.
    A lot of us here ... out in the water.

    — Jessie Van Pelt, Rattlesnake medicine (JVP1, 2001)

  2. Wohpekw soono'hl.
    It flies out to the middle of the water.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences from "Notes on Yurok Derivation" (1985) (NYD, 1985)