Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

wook • n • morning, dawn • vn • be morning

Lexicon record # 3974 | Source references: R265 JE90 YLCB75
Semantic domain: times and seasons

Special meanings or uses

• keech wook it is dawn, it is daylight, it is morning JE39 JE40 JE90

• kee-tee wook it's almost dawn JE40

• wook chee' all night JE95

Sentence examples (6)

1. Keech wook.
   It's dawn.

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   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 19: "What time is it?" (GT3-19, 2003)

2. Kem 'o gem', Paa tos mos k'ee we'yk-'oh 'ue-wook kol' 'o ne-wook'.
   She said, No, child, I have not seen anything here this morning.

   — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

3. Kue weet 'o 'wo-'oh 'ee-mee 'ue-ma chkeem' kue 'nep-sech 'em-see kue me-wee-mor, nee-kee wook noohl te-ge-ruem' kue 'we-roo-wo's kue me-wee-mor.
   That night the old man and my father did not sleep, and the old man spoke to his pipe until morning.

   — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

4. Won' keech son' keet 'ue wook kem 'o ge-gokw' kue 'nep-sech kue 'we-nerr-ger-sek'.
   Before daybreak even it happened that my father went out to gather sweathouse wood.

   — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

5. Keet 'o wook.
   It is just before dawn.

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

6. Nee-kee keech wook.
   Then it was morning.

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