Dictionary entry
'wes'onew • n • sky
Lexicon record # 4083 | Source reference(s):
R263
Semantic
domain: astronomy and the sky
Other paradigm form
locative 'wes'oneweek R263
Representative example
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Kue 'wes'onew neee'nes
How's the weather?
— R263
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (8)
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Kue 'wes'onew neee'nes.
How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Kues 'elekw kee so'n k'ee 'wes'onew?
Who knows which way the weather will turn? — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 17: "How's the weather? (Look at the sky.)" (GT3-17, 2003)
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Nek hesek' chpeewee 'ue-kwere'weyek' 'oohl 'o k'ee we'y 'ue - 'wes'onew.
But I think you are the sharpest faced person under these heavens.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)
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'Wes'oneweek 'o 'eko'l knuuue.
A hawk hovered in the sky.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Witu' kee mehl weeegenoyek' 'o 'wes'onew, kyekwen kee soo hogoole'monee k'ee 'oohl; kwelekw woyn keetee yoole'm k'ee 'oohl.
For that I will always be called in the world, as long as people will live thus; for there will be another people.— Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)
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" Nek kwelekw weeshtue' mehl hegook' mos kee pyekwchenee sonenee 'oole'mehl mocho kee neemok'w 'ue-pa'aanah keekee 'w-oole'mek' 'oohl 'o 'wes'onew.
"This is why I am going around because it won't be good for them to live if they have no water when they arrive in this world.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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Keech tema meyrkwechook' 'o 'wes'onew, wonoye'eek kem keech tema laayek'.
I have been everywhere in the world, and I also went through the sky.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)
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K'ee 'wes'onew 'o wee' nohsue'n.
She was born in the heavens.— Captain Spott, Myth of Rock (Once a Woman) (Xd, 1907)