Dictionary entry
hohkepek' • vi e-class • I am in training, I practice, I work out
Lexicon record # 537 | Source reference(s):
R200 JE138 YSRO473 MPY190 YLCB108
Derivation: morphological structure hohk-ep-e-
Sentence examples (4)
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Keetue hohkepek'.
I'm going to practice.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)
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Neekee kue weet 'o no'ohl 'emkee 'w-ohkepek', mos weeshtue' noo nep' kue maageen nepee'monee.
So from then on at that time he went into training, and did not eat what other people ate.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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'O gee' cho', Knokseeme'm kue 'woogey son k'e-slekw; kolchee wohlkechee' tue' ko' 'o nerrgerse'm, weet kee chpee 'o nepe'm kue meweemor 'we-romech 'ue-pewomek', 'ohlkuemee wok kem neeko'l 'w-ohkepek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee'eeyen pegerk.
He was told, Leave behind your white man's type of clothes; every morning you will gather sweathouse wood, and you will only eat the old man's niece's cooking, because she too was always in training and she alone cooked for the two men.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Noohl weeshtue' kem 'ap 'o nerrger's tue' 'o kohtoh hegor noohl weeshtue' so'n 'w-ohkepek'.
Then he gathered sweathouse wood and kept himself in training for one month more.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)