Dictionary entry
hee-ko'ch-'uek • adv • across (water)
Lexicon record # 489 | Source reference(s):
R199 JE4
Semantic
domain: directions and locations
Sentence examples (3)
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Hee-ko'ch-'uek 'o kwer-ger-yer'w.
Somebody's whistling across the water.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-006) (LA138-006, 1980)
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Kwe-see hehl-kew 'e-la new kue ko'l we-no-'o-mo'r kwe-see Se-gep, keech ko'-mo'y 'we-go-yek' kwe-lekw keech hlo-yehl kue chee-nes mehl hee-ko'ch-'uek.
From up in the hills Coyote had seen where something was moving along, (and) had heard tell that the two young men were being carried down from across the river.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kue wo-neek 'we-roh-pek' kue 'wo'hl-p'e'y 'ue-me-raa 'o ga'm kue me-wee-mor, Kwe-lekw kue roo-wo's weesh 'we-se-we-pek'; kwe-lekw wee-'eeet kee-kee koo-see ro'm tue' 'ee-mok-sue ko te-lo-ge'-mo'w mehl hee-ko'ch-'uek ho 'wes-'o-nah.
As the smoke from the angelica root drifted upward the old man said, This is the breath of the pipe; it will spread everywhere and there will be no sickness from here to the heavens.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)