Yurok dictionary
Your search: semantic domain astronomy and the sky
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Broader semantic domain: physical world
Related semantic domain(s):
landscape, place names, rocks and inanimate natural objects, weather
Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic
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chmey-yo-nen hoo-gech evening star
hoo-gech star
hoo-gech neeen' astronomer
hoo-gech 'uem falling star
hoo-ge-choy be starry (night)
ke-chee' it is daylight
koy-poh hoo-gech morning star
kue-reesh the end of a net, the point of a V-shaped mark, used for calendar keeping, made in a slate slab in the
floor of a sweat-house
kyah rise (sun or moon), spring (season), vernal
le-ko-nee hoo-gech falling star, shooting star
mehl se-ges-'ew shooting star
roo-tah sun ray
rue-ro-wech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)
so-'oo 'we-laay Milky Way
wo-news-leg moon, sun
wo-no-ye-'eek in the sky, up in the middle of the sky
yew' the sun sets
ye'-wo-mey' the sun sets
'or' it is the first sliver of the new moon
'wes-'o-nah sky, horizon, world, cosmos, earth, universe
'wes-'o-new
Dictionary entry
'wes-'o-new • n • sky
Lexicon record # 4083 | Source reference: R263
Semantic
domain: astronomy and the sky
Other paradigm form
Representative example
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Kue 'wes-'o-new neee'-nes
How's the weather?
— R263
Short recording (1)
| Sentence examples
(6)
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'wes-'o-new (spoken by Georgiana Trull)