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kep-'ehl

Dictionary entry

kep-'ehlvn imp • there is a housepit • n • hole in a tree, hole in the ground, housepit

Lexicon record # 820 | Source reference(s): FS(B201-202)
Semantic domain: houses and parts of houses
Derivation: morphological structure kep'-ehlk

Other paradigm form

  • repetitive kep'-kep-'ehl there are several housepits FS(B201-2)

Derived phrases or compounds
  • Kep-'el "a big village on the Klamath, next to and upriver from Saa'"

  • 'Ewpoh Kep-'ehl "the site of a hole where a bird lived in a creation story"

Short recording (1)

  1. kep-'ehl "hollow tree" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

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