Dictionary entry
'aawok • excl • alas!, poor thing! • Variant 'aawokw
Lexicon record # 4200 | Source reference(s): R268 JE104
Sentence examples (14)
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'Aawok!
Poor thing!
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)
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Noohl 'o ko neee'n so puelekw 'o new 'aawokw noohl kyue' keech weno'monekw kue twegoh.
Then he looked down the river and saw the coon, poor thing, floating away there.— Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Fox and the Coon" (GM2, 2004)
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Noohl 'o ko neee'n so puelekw 'o new 'aawokw noohl kyue' keech weno'monekw kue twegoh.
Then he looked down the river and saw the coon, poor thing, floating away there.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Fox and the Coon" (LA16-5, 1951)
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Kwesee kohchee heenoy 'o 'orogok'w kue wenchokws 'ap ha'm, 'Aawokw, 'ne-nos, kolo ko'l sook nee shoose'm.
And one day the woman followed him and said, Alas, my husband, you seem to have something on your mind.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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'Aawokw, 'aawokw, 'we-lepehlek' 'w-ewechek' kue 'ne-kuechos, mee' nek soo neemee komchue'm k'ee kwenee so 'ne-menechook'.
Alas, alas that my grandmother's life is a burden to her, as I fear that she does not know where I have disappeared to.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Kue wonekws 'we-sootok' noohl wek 'ee lehlkoo' 'ue-mey; soo ha's, 'Aawokw keech 'ne-muech newook'.
As he went up his weeping could be heard; he thought, Ah, now I have seen for myself.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)
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Kee yegeseepa' 'Aawokw, 'o'loolekweeshol .
You will think about me, 'Alas, human being.'— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)
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'Aawokw, mekwcheewa (?), To kwelekw keech hegoo'm.
Alas, ..., you have gone around.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (dictated) (SW1, 1902)
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'Aawokw, 'o'loolekweeshol !
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being!"— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue 'aawokw, 'o'loolekweeshol, hehl cho' kweles mokee mehl nee chpareson (?)
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being, you better see him— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue kwelekw, 'o'loolekweeshol, 'aawokw.
[Daughter of the sky:] "Alas, human being.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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Tue weetee' heenue ke mehl neskwechook', 'n-esek', To' keech heenee yegeseepa', 'Aawokw!"
That's the reason I come, thinking, You will think about me, Alas!"— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)
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To kwelekw keech na'amee yego'm, 'oloolekweeshol, 'aawokw.
Twice you have gone, human being, alas.— Susie of Wechpus, Menstruation medicine (recorded) (SW2, 1902)