Dictionary entry
'wes'onah • n • sky, horizon • world • cosmos • earth, universe
Lexicon record # 4082 | Source reference(s):
R263 JE121 YM116 YSRO477 MPY198 FS(B219)
Semantic
domain: astronomy and the sky
Other paradigm form
locative 'wes'oneweek earth, universe FS(B219)
Special meanings or uses
'wes'onah 'we-lekeeta' Milky Way [literally, "sky's backbone"] CS(ALK9:55) [astronomy and the sky]
k'ee 'wes'onah megetohl a character in creation stories, "the keeper of the heavens" FS(B219) HIC74 YM313 • "Sky-Keeper; he who has or owns the sky" YM431
'e'guue'r 'wes'onah "uterus"
Heewo'neek Wes'onah "heaven"
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (21)
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'We-chewonoyek' kue 'wes'onah.
The sky is straightening itself out.
— Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (JB-04-1a) (JB-04-1a, 2002)
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Keech muuekwole'we'y k'ee 'wes'onah.
There are thunder clouds in the sky. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-016) (LA138-016, 1980)
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Kolo keech t'laamok's k'ee 'wes'onah.
It's like the sky is leaking. — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-030) (LA138-030, 1980)
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Kue mehl hehlkue keech 'ue nekue' kue nepuy, noohl 'o meykwele'we'y, kolo 'o meykwele'we'y k'ee 'wes'onah.
The salmon was taken ashore, then it cries, it looks like the sky is crying (because of that fine mist that came over everyone on that hill as they prayed). — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-030) (LA138-030, 1980)
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Ke'l kwelekw k'ee soo no'omuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onew tue' k'ee nee tegetko'hl kee chpee 'e'goloyew.
As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)
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K'ee kwen cho kee no'omue'n k'ee 'wes'onah, kee noohl megeykwele'weyk'.
So long as the heavens endure, then I will mourn.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)
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Ke'l kwelekw k'ee soo no'omuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onah tue' k'ee nee tegetko'hl kee chpee nee 'e'goloyew.
As long as the heavens endure you will just be hooting in the canyons.— Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)
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Kwelekw nek hesek' chpeewee 'ue-kwere'weyek' 'oohl 'o k'ee wek 'ue-'wes'onah.
But I think you are the sharpest faced person under these heavens.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Toad and the Mouse" (LA16-6, 1951)
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Kue woneek 'we-rohpek' kue 'wo'hlp'e'y 'ue-meraa 'o ga'm kue meweemor, Kwelekw kue roowo's weesh 'we-sewepek'; kwelekw wee'eeet keekee koosee ro'm tue' 'eemoksue ko teloge'mo'w mehl heeko'ch'uek ho 'wes'onah.
As the smoke from the angelica root drifted upward the old man said, This is the breath of the pipe; it will spread everywhere and there will be no sickness from here to the heavens.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Noohl 'o ga'm kue meweemor, K'ee keech no'omue'n k'ee 'wes'onah tue' nekah keech noohl wee' segonkee'.
The old man said, As long as the heavens have endured this ceremony has been performed by us.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kolo huue'wonee'hl k'ee 'wes'onah.
The heavens seem to be waking up.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Kwesee kue mewah kee 'ap neeegoh neeyah... kue perey keech hohkuem 'wes'onah.
And the boy ...— Robert Spott, No'och (RS1, 1933)
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Nekah kee sonowoo'm. Weet 'wes'onah 'o knegon.
We will do so. I am leaving it like that in the world.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)
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Kwelekw weesh keehl pyekwchenee sonowohl 'o'loolekweesh 'ol' kee 'w-oole'mehl 'o 'wes'onah mocho kee 'ok'w 'ue-pa'aanah.
It will be right for people for them to go about in the world if they have water."— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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K'ee kwen keet 'o luenoyohl kwen hewonee 'o nohsuenowonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
Wherever I transform to, I come from the heavens.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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Mo weetue' hasek soneenee mehl na skuuewok kee sho neee'nowok' k'ee 'wes'onah.
Sometimes I think that way, that they like them, as I look at the sky.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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K'ee nekah 'we-hegohkue' keekee chpaanek wonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
... above in the sky.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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... 'we-hegohkue'... chpaanek wonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
... above in the sky.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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Kee kwen cho' kee sho nek wonee k'ee 'wes'onah.
... above in the sky.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)
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Kwesee 'wes'onah k'ee wonoye'eek weet 'ee 'o puuekteek.
And the deer was from the sky above.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)
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Keech ma yohpechook' 'ee 'wes'onah.
I went around in the sky.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)