Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

wonuekuek • adv • above, overhead

Lexicon record # 3946 | Source reference(s): R265
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence examples (2)

1. Kwesee kohchee 'we-neskwechook' 'ap ko'mo'y, 'ue-worue wonuekuek neenee ko'mo'y kue 'w-ahpeleen kue huueksoh 'w-omtah.
   Then once as he came home he heard, around and overhead he heard the happy children playing.

   — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

2. Kwesee kohchee 'we-neskwechook' 'ap ko'mo'y, 'ue-worue wonuekuek neenee ko'mo'y kue 'w-ahpeleen kue huueksoh 'w-omtah.
   Then once as he came home he heard, around and overhead he heard the happy children playing.

   — Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)