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ye'-wo-me'y

Dictionary entry

ye'-wo-me'y • v imp e-class • the sun sets

Lexicon record # 4135 | Source reference(s): R267
Semantic domain: astronomy and the sky

Sentence examples (3)

  1. Keech ye'-wo-mey'.
    The sun or moon is going down.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  2. Kee-tee ye'-wo-mey'.
    The sun or moon is about to go down.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  3. Kwe-see noohl keech roo kee-tee ye'-wo-me'y lekw-see 'o soo-tok'w.
    Then the time came when the sun was setting, and he went out.

    — Lowana Brantner, "Wohpekumew and the Salmon" (LA16-3, 1951)