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sa'awor

Dictionary entry

sa'awor • n • shadow, shade

Lexicon record # 2946 | Source reference(s): R245 JE119 YLCB34

Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (5)

  1. Wohkelo' sku'y mehl 'we-sa'awor.
    Pepperwood makes good shade.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 8: "Look! Observations" (GT3-08, 2003)

  2. Sa'awor.
    Shade.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 30: "Environment." (GT3-30, 2003)

  3. Wehlowaa chee hegok'w 'we-sa'awor noohl 'esee pkwecho'l kue 'uema'ah.
    Its shadow came ten times before the devil appeared.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  4. Wehlowaa chee hegok'w 'we-sa'awor noohl 'esee pkwecho'l kue 'uema'ah.
    Its shadow appeared ten times before the devil came out.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  5. Kue 'ue-weryerkweypeyerkwek', kue segon' kol' 'o sa'awor 'o wohpue.
    When he finished singing, they looked like shadows in the water.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)