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heekoch

Dictionary entry

heekoch • adv • across (water)

Lexicon record # 485 | Source reference(s): R199
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (9)

  1. Heekoch hes 'o myah kue 'we-le'loyhlpa'aahl?
    Did the fire jump across the water?

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. Heekoch hes 'o myah so heekoh kue pa'aahl?
    Did it jump across the water?

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  3. Cho' wee'eeet 'o maaye'm... heekoch cho' 'o sooto'm.
    Pass this place ... go across.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-012) (LA138-012, 1980)

  4. Heekoch me'wome'm.
    They came across.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-023) (LA138-023, 1980)

  5. Heekoch so negemek'.
    I carry it across.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-045) (LA138-045, 1980)

  6. Kwesee kohchee kem heekoch sr 'ue-werhperyersek' kwesee 'ap newee' ko'l nuemee wogee 'o key kolo ko'l sook nee nep'.
    Once as he was crossing over he saw something sitting right in the middle of it and apparently eating something.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Fox and the Coon" (GM2, 2004)

  7. Kwesee kohchee kem heekoch so 'ue-werhperyerksek' kwesee 'ap new ko'l nuemee wogee 'o key kolo ko'l sook nee nep'.
    Once as he was crossing over he saw something sitting right in the middle of it and apparently eating something.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Fox and the Coon" (LA16-5, 1951)

  8. Kwelekw 'o tene'm 'oohl 'o Wehlwkew heekoch so Rek'woy so wohpeye'm, 'ohlkuemee weet 'eenee meroge'y kee 'we-hloohl 'we-'yoh 'emsee 'ue-pa'ah 'ohlkuemee keech wee' laayekw keech 'o chahchew kee 'we-hloyek' 'yohhlkoych' 'o puelekw.
    And then there were a lot of people who crossed over from Wehlkwew to Requa, as it was easier there for them to get their wood and their water now that the path was finished and it was difficult for wood to be fetched at the river mouth.

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

  9. Heekoch so hegoosek'.
    I am shouting across the water.

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