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heema'erk'uek

Dictionary entry

heema'erk'uek • adv • below, underneath

Lexicon record # 494 | Source reference(s): R200
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Heema'erk'uek keech sootook'w kue leyes.
    The snake went underneath (the rock).

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (JB-04-1a) (JB-04-1a, 2002)

  2. Kue ke'l kwelekw 'ok'w k'-ekwol 'o heema'erk'uek tue' wee 'o kegemole'm.
    You have your own fishing place underneath and are always stealing there.

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

  3. Nepuy heema'erk'uek 'oyhl 'o kue ha'aag.
    A salmon is lying underneath the rock.

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