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heepuer

Dictionary entry

heepuer • adv • a little bit downriver, down below, northward

Lexicon record # 520 | Source reference(s): R200 JE18 JE43
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Short recordings (4) | Sentence examples (5)

  1. Heepuer.
    A shorter ways down the river or road.

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

  2. Kem noohl 'ela myah 'ap new kwesee noohl heepuer keech weno'monekw kue 'yoch.
    He jumped and saw the boat already moving far down stream.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  3. Heepuer 'eekee soono'r.
    Downstream it went past.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  4. Heepuer nee ma koloneq' 'ee hlee' wee'.
    He went downstream and caught it.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  5. Tue noohl heepuer

    — Lame Billy, Gambling medicine formula (Ac, 1902)