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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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 in the sky, up in the middle of the sky

yew' the sun sets

ye'-wo-mey'

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

'wes-'o-nah sky, horizon, world, cosmos, earth, universe

'wes-'o-new sky

Dictionary entry

ye'-wo-mey'v imp e-class • the sun sets

Lexicon record # 4135 | Source reference: R267
Semantic domain: astronomy and the sky

Sentence example (1)

  1. Kwe-see noohl keech roo kee-tee ye'-wo-mey' lekw-see 'o soo-tokw'.
    Then the time came when the sun was setting, and he went out.

    — Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)