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hoo-lo-yehl

Dictionary entry

hoo-lo-yehl • vi e-class • they are twisted, they are woven crooked, they are not straight (badly made baskets in which the uprights are not vertical)

Lexicon record # 623 | Source reference(s): R202 JE151
Semantic domain: baskets and basket making

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Hoo-lee' 'noo-loh.
    My basket is twisted.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  2. Kee-tee hoo-lee' 'noo-loh.
    My basket will turn out twisted.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)