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heer-keek

Dictionary entry

heer-keekadv • 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 heer-keek' 'o woh-pey-ya'r tek-toh.
    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-raa-yoy 'weheer-keek 'o woh-pey-ya'r tek-toh, tue' wee-'eeet reee-gaa-yo'r kue wer-gers k'e-ne-go'hl kem keech kyue' we-no-'o-mo'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. Heer-keeks 'e-ma kee laay' so puel, tue' so-ne-nee mee wo 'wek'ws.
    Inland he went downriver, but he never found it.

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