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'O Chaahl 'WeRe-pokw

Dictionary entry

'O Chaahl 'WeRe-pokw • 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", re-pokw "doorway")

Sentence example (1)

  1. Noohl 'O Chaahl 'WeRe-pokw me'-wo-me-chok'w 'oohl 'e-me ga'm, Pekw-sue hes keech kee woh-pey-ye'-moh 'o kue laa-yekw?
    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)