Yurok dictionary
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chmeyonen hoogech evening star
hoogech star
hoogech neee'n astronomer
hoogech 'ue-m falling star
hoogechoy be starry (night)
kechee'
koyowoh full (of the moon)
koypoh hoogech morning star
kuereesh the end of a net, the point of a V-shaped mark, used for calendar keeping, made in a slate slab in the floor
of a sweat-house
kyah rise (sun or moon), spring (season), vernal
lekonee hoogech falling star, shooting star
mehl seges'ew shooting star
rootah sun ray
ruerowech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)
so'oo 'we-laay Milky Way
s'eegoroh half moon
wonewsleg moon, sun
wonoye'eek in the sky, up in the middle of the sky
ye'w the sun sets
ye'wome'y the sun sets
'o'r it is the first sliver of the new moon
'wes'onah sky, horizon, world, cosmos, earth, universe
'wes'onew sky
Dictionary entry
kechee' • v imp e-class • it is daylight
Lexicon record # 739 | Source reference(s):
R204 JE40
Semantic
domain: astronomy and the sky
Derivation: morphological structure kechoy-e-
Other paradigm form
Special meanings or uses
Short recordings (4)
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kechee' "it is daybreak" (spoken by Florence Shaughnessy)
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kechoyn "day" (spoken by Georgiana Trull)
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kechoyn "daytime" (spoken by Jessie Van Pelt)
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we'yk'oh 'ue-kechoyn "today" (spoken by Aileen Figueroa)
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