Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

hee-ma-'erk-'uek • adv • below, underneath

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

Sentence examples (3)

1. Hee-ma-'erk-'uek keech soo-took'w kue ley-yes.
   The snake went underneath (the rock).

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

2. Kue ke'l kwe-lekw 'ok'w k'e-kwol 'o hee-ma-'erk-'uek tue' wee 'o ke-ge-mo-le'm.
   You have your own fishing place underneath and are always stealing there.

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

3. Ne-puy hee-ma-'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)