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heepech

Dictionary entry

heepech • adv • upriver, upstream, a little bit upriver [takes pronominal prefixes]

Lexicon record # 519 | Source reference(s): R200
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (2)

  1. Heepech.
    A little ways up the river.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 16: "Where are you coming from?" (GT3-16, 2003)

  2. Kue Tmery 'We-Roy 'we-heepech kwelekw nee kohchewee' noohl keekee chue wee 'o nepee'm.
    What was caught upstream from Cannery Creek everyone could eat.

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