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hoo

Dictionary entry

hoo • vn • go, travel

Lexicon record # 595 | Source reference(s): R201

Special meanings or uses

  • hegoo traveller JE1b

  • k'ee nee yoo (poor) white man [literally, "one who travels around"] R201 [people]

  • k'ee wee' nee yoo people [literally, "who travels around there"] JE102

  • kechoyn hegoo, kechoyn heeegoo sun [literally, "day traveler"] R201 JE130 [astronomy and the sky]

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (12)

  1. Chue yo' kwen kee nue hoo.
    Let's go someplace.

    Audio 

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

  2. Chue puelekw kee nue hoo.
    Let's go down the road.

    Audio 

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

  3. Chue 'o meguehl kee nue hoo.
    Let's go to the store.

    Audio 

    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 10: "Comb your hair. Daily routines" (GT3-10, 2003)

  4. Chue perwerh kee nue hoo.
    Lets go to town.

    Audio 

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

  5. Kues ma hoo?
    Where did you go?

    Audio 

    — Glenn Moore, Miscellaneous Sentences (GM-MISC) (GM-MISC, 2000s)

  6. Cho' hoo nue neee'n, to's keech t'uene'm.
    Go and see, are they up yet (new plants, poking through the ground).

    Audio 

    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-043) (LA138-043, 1980)

  7. Kwesee keech tyohpeyoksee' weet 'o 'w-egoo mee' hesehl, Nek soo keetee keemkee' kue '-uueksoh.
    They dislike going around there because they think, Maybe their children will be injured.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "Otters" (LA181-2, 1986)

  8. K'ee nee yoo.
    Foreigners (wanderers).

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  9. Weet 'o newee' ke wee' ko'l (?) nee hoo lo'omew, woneye'eek 'em laayetkolee'm.
    There appeared ... they went in every direction, they travelled in the air.

    — Lowana Brantner, Wohpekumew's Prediction (LA16-9, 1951)

  10. Nekah hasoh Kohpey kee nue goo.
    We have decided to go to Crescent City.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  11. Nekah Kohpey nee ma goo.
    We went to Crescent City.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  12. Chue Arcata kee nue woo 'owook. Chue we'yk'oh.
    Let's go to Arcata tomorrow. Let's go now.

    — Lucy Thompson, Sentences (GAR-LT) (GAR-LT, 1922)