Dictionary entry
hoh-ke-pek' • 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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Kee-tue hoh-ke-pek'.
I'm going to practice.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)
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Nee-kee kue weet 'o no-'ohl 'em-kee 'woh-ke-pek', mos weesh-tue' noo nep' kue maa-geen ne-pee'-mo-nee.
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', Knok-see-me'm kue 'woo-gey son k'es-lekw; kol-chee wohl-ke-chee' tue' ko' 'o nerr-ger-se'm, weet kee chpee 'o ne-pe'm kue me-wee-mor 'we-ro-mech 'ue-pe-wo-mek', 'ohl-kue-mee wok kem nee-ko'l 'woh-ke-pek' tue' wok kee chpee pew mehl kue nee-'ee-yen pe-gerk.
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 weesh-tue' kem 'ap 'o nerr-ger's tue' 'o koh-toh he-gor noohl weesh-tue' so'n 'woh-ke-pek'.
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)