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holeemek'

Dictionary entry

holeemek' • vt e-class • I weave (baskets)

Lexicon record # 557 | Source reference(s): R201 JE147
Semantic domain: baskets and basket making

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (6)

  1. We'yk'oh 'ochkaa holee'm cheykenee 'we-no'os. Keetee 'o huuek... weet holee'm.
    Right now she's making a baby basket for her baby ...

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. 'Ochkaa pekwolue'm kue 'w-oleehl. Keet holee'm 'we-no'os.
    Right now she's peeling her hazel sticks. She's going to make a baby basket.

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  3. Nekomuy k'e-holeemek' 'luemon hes?
    Do you know how to make eel baskets?

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 9: "What are you making? Making, Doing, Fishing" (GT3-09, 2003)

  4. Holeemek'.
    I made baskets.

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    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)

  5. Weeshtue' 'o hooreche'w; 'ekah hole'm.
    That is where she was basket-weaving; she wove a basket-cap.

    — Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)