Yurok dictionary

Your search: semantic domain astronomy and the sky

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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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'wes'onah sky, horizon, world, cosmos, earth, universe

kyah rise (sun or moon), spring (season), vernal

kechee' it is daylight

wonewsleg moon, sun

'wes'onew sky

wonoye'eek in the sky, up in the middle of the sky

hoogech star

rootah sun ray

ye'womey' the sun sets

chmeyonen hoogech evening star

hoogech neeen' astronomer

hoogech 'ue-m falling star

hoogechoy be starry (night)

koypoh hoogech morning star

kuereesh

lekonee hoogech falling star, shooting star

mehl seges'ew shooting star

ruerowech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)

so'oo 'we-laay Milky Way

yew' the sun sets

'or' it is the first sliver of the new moon

Dictionary entry

kuereeshn • 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

Lexicon record # 1131 | Source references: RS(ALK129f:435) FS(B203)
Semantic domains: hunting and fishing; astronomy and the sky