leptenok

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Yurok[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From 'leptoyhl / 'lep (hair), due to the Yurok belief that the sky is a face which expresses many emotions, with clouds as its hair.[1] Cognate to Wiyot laptóhw.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

leptenok

  1. cloud[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1982, in Approaches to Algonquian Archaeology (published by the University of Calgary Archaeological Association), page 199