Yurok dictionary
Your search: semantic domain astronomy and the sky
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
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
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
Special meanings or uses
Short recordings (3)
| Sentence examples
(7)
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kechi' "it is daybreak" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)
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kechoyn "daytime" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)
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we'yk'oh 'u-kechoyn (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)