Dictionary entry
ho'opek' • v e-class • I make a fire, I build a fire
Lexicon record # 593 | Source reference(s): R201 FS(LA138-010) JE24 JE54 YLCB41 YLCB105
Other paradigm form
3sg impersonal ho'op' there is a fire FS(B201)
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (10)
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'Ochkaa ho'opek'.
I'm building a fire.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 27: "What are you doing? Responses" (GT3-27, 2003)
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Cho' ho'ope'm!
Build a fire! — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-03) (JB-01-03, 2001)
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Keech ho'op'.
She's making fire. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-01-04) (JB-01-04, 2001)
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Keech 'o ho'op' kee pew keetee ko'l nep'.
He had made a fire and was going to cook something to eat.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Two Boys Kill a Donkey" (LA181-16, 1986)
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Nekomuy 'n-o'opek'.
I know how to build a fire.— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences in Berman's "Supplement to Robins" (HB, 1970-1972)
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Wooyhl noohl ho'op' mehl 'wo'hlp'e'y tue' weeshtue' keech nee soo swoo'melehl kue 'er'gerrch kem neekee so'n.
All night he made a fire with angelica root and so they both smelt of it and the sweathouse did as well.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kue 'we-neskwechook' 'ap ho'op' 'o 'er'gerrk kwesee ye'm kue meweemor, Kues cho soneenepe'm?
When he returned he made a fire in the sweathouse, and the old man said, How do you feel?— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Ke'l ho'op'es!
Build a fire!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Pa'aamee' kue 'yohhlkoych'; koweecho mehl ho'ope'm!
The firewood is wet; don't use it to make the fire!— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Nek keech ho'opek'.
I have built a fire.— Minnie Frank, Maggie Pilgrim, Carrie Roberts, Florence Shaughnessy, and others, Yurok field notebook 2 (MRH2, 1950-66)