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Hee-wow

Dictionary entry

Hee-wow • pn • a house in Rek'woy

Lexicon record # 4524 | Source reference(s): LA16-8
Semantic domain: place names

Sentence example (1)

  1. Koh-chew keech 'o choo-moyhl 'o nes-kwe-chok'w 'ue-me'-loh mehl kue Hee-wow 'o tek 'o'-lehl 'o Rek'-woy nue 'wech-pe-ga'r, To's wee 'no-'o'hl keech kee 'na-'ahs-pee'-moh 'em-kee weet kee 'ne-soo 'e'-gah?
    Six days passed and a relative of his came from the house at Hiwow in Requa, and asked, May we now drink at home, and eat as we usually do?

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)