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hee-koch

Dictionary entry

hee-koch • adv • across (water)

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

Sentence examples (9)

  1. Hee-koch 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. Hee-koch hes 'o myah so hee-koh 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 maa-ye'm... hee-koch cho' 'o soo-to'm.
    Pass this place ... go across.

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

  4. Hee-koch me'-wo-me'm.
    They came across.

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

  5. Hee-koch so ne-ge-mek'.
    I carry it across.

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

  6. Kwe-see koh-chee kem hee-koch sr 'ue-werh-per-yer-sek' kwe-see 'ap ne-wee' ko'l nue-mee wo-gee 'o key ko-lo 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. Kwe-see koh-chee kem hee-koch so 'ue-werh-per-yerk-sek' kwe-see 'ap new ko'l nue-mee wo-gee 'o key ko-lo 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. Kwe-lekw 'o te-ne'm 'oohl 'o Wehlw-kew hee-koch so Rek'-woy so woh-pey-ye'm, 'ohl-kue-mee weet 'ee-nee me-ro-ge'y kee 'we-hloohl 'we'-yoh 'em-see 'ue-pa-'ah 'ohl-kue-mee keech wee' laa-yekw keech 'o chah-chew kee 'we-hlo-yek' 'yoh-hlkoych' 'o pue-lekw.
    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. Hee-koch so he-goo-sek'.
    I am shouting across the water.

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