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'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw

Dictionary entry

'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw • pn • a place

Lexicon record # 4525 | Source reference(s): LA16-8
Semantic domain: place names
Derivation: literally, "where the sand's doorway is" (chaahl "sand", repokw "doorway")

Sentence example (1)

  1. Noohl 'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw me'womechok'w 'oohl 'eme ga'm, Pekwsue hes keech kee wohpeye'moh 'o kue laayekw?
    Then a man came from 'O Chaahl 'We-Repokw and said, May we not now cross over the path?

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