Dictionary entry
'aa-wokw • excl • alas!, poor thing! • Variant 'aa-wok
Lexicon record # 4200 | Source references: R268 JE104
Sentence examples (14)
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'Aa-wok!
Poor thing!
| Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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Noohl 'o ko neeen' so pue-lekw 'o new 'aa-wokw noohl kyue' keech we-no'-mo-nekw kue twe-goh.
Then he looked down the river and saw the coon, poor thing, floating away there.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Fox and the Coon" (GM2, 2004)
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Noohl 'o ko neeen' so pue-lekw 'o new 'aa-wokw noohl kyue' keech we-no'-mo-nekw kue twe-goh.
Then he looked down the river and saw the coon, poor thing, floating away there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Fox and the Coon" (LA16-5, 1951)
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Kwe-see koh-chee hee-noy 'o 'o-ro-gokw' kue wen-chokws 'ap ham', 'Aa-wokw, 'ne-nos, ko-lo kol' sook nee shoo-sem'.
And one day the woman followed him and said, Alas, my husband, you seem to have something on your mind.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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'Aa-wokw, 'aa-wokw, 'we-le-pe-hlek' 'we-we-chek' kue 'ne-kue-chos, mee' nek soo nee-mee kom-chuem' k'ee kwe-nee so 'ne-me-ne-chok'.
Alas, alas that my grandmother's life is a burden to her, as I fear that she does not know where I have disappeared to.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kue wo-nekws 'we-soo-tok' noohl wek 'ee lehl-koo' 'ue-mey; soo ha's, 'Aa-wokw keech 'ne-muech ne-wook'.
As he went up his weeping could be heard; he thought, Ah, now I have seen for myself.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kee ye-ge-see-pa' 'Aa-wokw, 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol .
You will think about me, 'Alas, human being.'— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)
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'Aa-wokw, mekw-chee-wa (?), To kwe-lekw keech he-gom'.
Alas, ..., you have gone around.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)
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'Aa-wokw, 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol !
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being!"— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue 'aa-wokw, 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol, hehl cho' kwe-las mo-kee mehl nee chpa-re-son (?)
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being, you better see him— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue kwe-lekw, 'o'-loo-le-kwee-shol, 'aa-wokw.
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue wee-tee hee-nue ke mehl nes-kwe-chok', n'e-sek', To' keech hee-nee ye-ge-see-pa', 'Aa-wokw!"
That's the reason I come, thinking, You will think about me, Alas!"— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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To kwe-lekw keech na-'a-mee ye-gom', 'o-loo-le-kwee-shol, 'aa-wokw.
Twice you have gone, human being, alas.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)