leptenok
Yurok
Etymology
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 ləptá'w.
Noun
leptenok
- cloud[1]
References
- 1982, in Approaches to Algonquian Archaeology (published by the University of Calgary Archaeological Association), page 199