Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

wohpewk • adv • "the direction about at right angles to the course of the lower Klamath, or roughly southwest" • across the sea, west

Lexicon record # 3916 | Source reference(s): YM142 R264 JE4
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (5)

1. Negeneech 'we-rahcheen locho'm keetee nue hlkyegor 'o wohpewk.
   Mouse (and) his pal toad were going to go watch (something) across the ocean.

   — Frank Douglas, Mouse and Toad (FD3, 1970)

2. Noohl 'o ko ska'ehlke'n hohkuem so pueleek 'emsee so hehlkew 'emsee so wohpewk 'emsee so perwerh.
   Then he scattered tobacco to the north, to the east, to the west, and to the south.

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

3. Noohl ska'ehlke'n hohkuem ho puelekuek ho pecheek ho perwer'k'uek 'emsee ho wohpewk.
   Then he scattered tobacco to the north, to the east, to the south, and to the west.

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

4. Wohpewk 'ue-mewechek'.
   The wind is in the west.

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

5. Ke'l kee wohpewk 'o paamew.
   You will be across the sea where the octopus is.

   — Amits of Kep'el, Medicine not to see rattlesnake (Nb, 1906)