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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

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 sky

wo-no-ye-'eek • adv • in the sky • up in the middle of the sky • Variant wo-no-ye'k

Lexicon record # 3942 | Source references: R265 JE3 MPY196 JE3
Semantic domain: astronomy and the sky

Special meanings or uses

kue wo-no-ye-'eek 'o chweee-geen (Christian) God [literally, "the one who speaks in the sky"] R265
wo-no-ye-'eeks mehl chween God [literally, "the one who speaks to me from above"] JE61
wo-no-ye-'eeks 'ol' God, the creator [literally, "the one that lives above"] JE36 JE61

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