Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

woh-pewk • 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. Ne-ge-neech 'we-rah-cheen lo-cho'm kee-tee nue hlkye-gor 'o woh-pewk.
   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-'ehl-ke'n hoh-kuem so pue-leek 'em-see so hehl-kew 'em-see so woh-pewk 'em-see so per-werh.
   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-'ehl-ke'n hoh-kuem ho pue-le-kuek ho pe-cheek ho per-wer'-k'uek 'em-see ho woh-pewk.
   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. Woh-pewk 'ue-me-we-chek'.
   The wind is in the west.

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

5. Ke'l kee woh-pewk 'o paa-mew.
   You will be across the sea where the octopus is.

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