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

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

kechi'

wonewsleg moon, sun

'wes'onew sky

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

hoogech star

rootah sun ray

ye'wome'y the sun sets

chmeyonen hoogech evening star

hoogech nii'n astronomer

hoogech 'u-m falling star

hoogechoy be starry (night)

koypoh hoogech morning star

kurish 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

lekoni hoogech falling star, shooting star

mehl seges'ew shooting star

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

so'oo 'we-laay Milky Way

ye'w the sun sets

'o'r it is the first sliver of the new moon

Dictionary entry

kechi'v imp e-class • it is daylight

Lexicon record # 739 | Source references: R204 JE40
Semantic domain: astronomy and the sky
Derivation: morphological structure kechoy-e-

Other paradigm form

  • attributive 3sg kechoyn day R204 JE40

Special meanings or uses

Short recordings (3) | Sentence examples (7)

  1. kechi' "it is daybreak" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)

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  2. kechoyn "daytime" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)

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  3. we'yk'oh 'u-kechoyn (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)

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