Yurok dictionary

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woop-'ee

Dictionary entry

woop-'eeadv • out in the water (of an island, etc.)

Lexicon record # 3979 | Source reference(s): R266
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence example (1)

  1. Kwe-see' wo'-geek 'ee rek-'eeen 'woo-lohl, woop nee-kee laaych-ke-nek'w so pue-lekw.
    They were sitting inside their baskets, they were floating along downstream in the middle of the river.

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