Dictionary entry
hoo-re-che-wek' • vt e-class • 1 I weave baskets, I make baskets 2 I grope, I reach
Lexicon record # 632 | Source reference(s):
RS(ALK1940:99h) R202 JE147 FS(B201) JE110
Semantic
domain: baskets and basket making
Derivation: morphological structure h-oor-echew-e-
Other paradigm form
collective hoo-re-chuue'm
Special meaning or use
Wo-'eek hoo-re-che-wek' I reach into (e.g., a receptacle) R202
Sentence examples (7)
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Ske-wok kee 'nehoo-re-che-wek'.
I want to make baskets.
— Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)
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Ske-wok kee 'nehoo-re-chuue'-moh.
We want to make baskets. — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Questions and Related Sentences (JB-17-1, 2005)
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Hoo-re-che-wek'.
I'm weaving baskets. — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)
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Wo'-nee hoo-re-che-wek'.
Right now I'm weaving baskets. — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences (JB-01-02) (JB-01-02, 2001)
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'Wes-raach' 'ue-wo-'eek 'e-la hoo-re-che'w weesh-tue' 'o mue'-mo-ne'm kue 'wer-'err-gerch, me-cheesh 'o nek'.
He reached into his quiver and took out the alder bark, and put it on the fire.— Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)
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Kwe-see' 'er'-gerrch lakws 'ee chyuuek'-wee'n 'o ne-wo'm kue 'wah-pe-wehl 'ee won-ke-wehl hoo-re-che-wehl.
Then he just sat down outside the sweathouse and he saw his wives just then soaking acorns and making baskets.— Mary Marshall, Coyote and Crane (MM3, 1927)
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Weesh-tue' 'o hoo-re-che'w; 'e-kah ho-le'm.
That is where she was basket-weaving; she wove a basket-cap.— Mary Marshall, Medicine formula to get wealthy (MM5, 1927)