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chmey-yo-nen hoo-gech evening star

hoo-gech star

hoo-gech neee'n astronomer

hoo-gech 'uem falling star

hoo-ge-choy be starry (night)

ke-chee' it is daylight

ko-yo-woh full (of the moon)

koy-poh hoo-gech morning star

kue-reesh 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

le-ko-nee hoo-gech falling star, shooting star

mehl se-ges-'ew shooting star

roo-tah sun ray

rue-ro-wech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)

so-'oo 'we-laay Milky Way

s'ee-go-roh half moon

wo-news-leg moon, sun

wo-no-ye-'eek in the sky, up in the middle of the sky

ye'w the sun sets

ye'-wo-me'y the sun sets

'o'r it is the first sliver of the new moon

'wes-'o-nah sky, horizon, world, cosmos, earth, universe

'wes-'o-new sky