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wa's'ok

Dictionary entry

wa's'ok • vn • pity • Variant wa'sok

Lexicon record # 3786 | Source reference(s): R261 JE104 YLCB50 R261
Semantic domain: feelings and emotions
Derivation: morphological structure wa's'-oks

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Weeshtue' weesh soo wa'sok 'w-esek' kwesee weet ho soo hoole'm 'oohl tue' kweles keech ho noo weeshtue' ko hohkue'm.
    And so he was full of pity that this was how they the people had lived and now he himself had taken part.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  2. Keech mo'ok'w nekach kee wa'sok to' yo' nowkwope'n.
    There was no one to pity me, so she is looking after me.

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