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heerkeek

Dictionary entry

heerkeek • adv • inland [takes pronominal prefixes]

Lexicon record # 524 | Source reference(s): R200
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Noohl k'ee wek 'we-roy heerkeek' 'o wohpeya'r tektoh.
    One time up in this creek, there was a log laying across the water.

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

  2. Noohl k'ee wek 'we-raayoy 'we-heerkeek 'o wohpeya'r tektoh, tue' wee'eeet reeegaayo'r kue wergers k'enego'hl kem keech kyue' weno'omo'r.
    In those days way back in this creek a log lay across the water, and a fox used to cross over on it and was often running there.

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

  3. Heerkeeks 'ema kee laay' so puel, tue' sonenee mee wo 'w-ek'ws.
    Inland he went downriver, but he never found it.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)