Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

wo-nue-kuek • adv • above, overhead

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

Sentence examples (2)

1. Kwe-see koh-chee 'we-nes-kwe-chook' 'ap ko'-mo'y, 'ue-wo-rue wo-nue-kuek nee-nee ko'-mo'y kue 'wah-pe-leen kue huuek-soh 'wom-tah.
   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. Kwe-see koh-chee 'we-nes-kwe-chook' 'ap ko'-mo'y, 'ue-wo-rue wo-nue-kuek nee-nee ko'-mo'y kue 'wah-pe-leen kue huuek-soh 'wom-tah.
   Then once as he came home he heard, around and overhead he heard the happy children playing.

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