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hooloh

Dictionary entry

hoolohn • basket (general term)

Lexicon record # 620 | Source reference(s): R202 JE14
Semantic domain: baskets and basket making

Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (10)

  1. Keetee pyuerkerek' hooloh rohkuet.
    I'm going to play basketball.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)

  2. Kolchee hloy kue 'n-ooloh.
    I tried (to make) my basket.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (JB-04-1a) (JB-04-1a, 2002)

  3. Hoolee' 'n-ooloh.
    My basket is twisted.

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

  4. Keetee hoolee' 'n-ooloh.
    My basket will turn out twisted.

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

  5. Kwesee' 'o newee' keech lechkenek'w kue hooloh.
    Then he saw the baskets floating down the river.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  6. 'O le'm, K'-ooloh keech lechkenek'w!
    He said, Your baskets are floating away!

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  7. Kwesee' wo'geek 'ee rek'eeen 'w-oolohl, woop neekee laaychkenek'w so puelekw.
    They were sitting inside their baskets, they were floating along downstream in the middle of the river.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  8. 'Onuemee wee'eet nek'o'l kue hooloh weno'omech.
    Right there he lit on those baskets which were floating along.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  9. Kwesee' wo'geek 'ee rek'eeen kue hoolohl.
    They were sitting in those baskets.

    — Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)

  10. Kues choo'm hooloh? Nee chkeno'.
    How many baskets have you? Only a few.

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)