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

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chmeyonen hoogech evening star

hoogech star

hoogech neeen' astronomer

hoogech 'ue-m falling star

hoogechoy be starry (night)

kechee' it is daylight

koypoh hoogech morning star

kuereesh 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

lekonee hoogech falling star, shooting star

mehl seges'ew shooting star

rootah sun ray

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

so'oo 'we-laay Milky Way

wonewsleg

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

yew' the sun sets

ye'womey' the sun sets

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

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

'wes'onew sky

Dictionary entry

wonewslegn • moon sun • Variants wonuesleg wonekwsleg

Lexicon record # 3936 | Source references: R265 FS(B220) YSU995 JE90 FS(LA138-057)
Semantic domain: astronomy and the sky

Special meaning or use

  • keech koyowoh kue wonewsleg wonewsleg keech koyowoh the moon is full YLCB113 AF(JB-02-9) [astronomy and the sky]

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  1. wonuesleg "moon" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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