hawil | -da | |
before | -at | |
t̪ak' | maji | |
four | day | |
t̪ak' | maji | ʔu:l | na | |
four | day | now | be | |
it's been four days now | ||||
subu | maji | |
three | day | |
xo: | maji | |
two | day | |
t̪ak' | diwe | nan | t̪ak' | maji | |
four | night | and | four | day | |
ja:ʔ | ho | ne | -n | |
person | fire | put | -ing | |
Cultural note: When someone was really sick, a pit was dug and filled with wood, over which a rack with pepperwood and bay leaves were placed with a blanket (or hide in the old days.) Over that, the sick person was lain. The fire was burned to coals and water was thrown on so steam would come up through the leaves. The person stayed there for a whole afternoon. Medicine men would do this for a lot of different diseases. This process was called ja:ʔ ho nen | ||||
nan | muu | t̪ʰin | -t̪a | ya | set'ay | maji | pʰo | -kʰe | -ʔ | |
and | there | not | -Q | we | how many | day | stay (plural) | -future | -Q | |
and we will stay there for some number of days, right? | ||||||||||
masa:n | tʰuʔul | -da | kopʰili | |
white person | old | -when | come.plural | |
long ago, the white people arrived | ||||
she: | -na:m | -mu:l | ʔal | yaʔ | kawi | -ya | -na:m | -meʔ | -ya:ʔ | yaʔ | dine | -ʔ | -t̪ʰin | ʔal | yaʔ | ja:ʔ | yem | -ay | -na:m | -meʔ | na | hi | -n | |
now | -the | -that | this | our | child | -plural | -the | -char. | -nom. | us | think | -semelf. | -not | this | our | person | old | -plural | -the | -char. | be | say | -ing | |
nowadays, it's said that our children do not think of us, of our old people | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
matu: ja | -da | subu | maji | miti | -n | |
hospital | -at | three | day | lie | -ing | |
hawilda | -na:m | -mu:l | hint̪il | -ya:ʔ | ch'a:ma: | diley | -ya:ʔ | pʰo | -t̪' | na | -n | kanemaʔ | -ya:ʔ | ch'a:ma: | pʰo | -t̪i | -n | |
before | -the | -that | Indian | -nom. | together | all | -nom. | live (plural) | -mev. | be | -ing | relative | -nom. | together | stay (plural) | -mev. | -ing | |
three | days | ʔa: | ma:daʔ | diyi | jima | nan | mu:l | t̪o: | k'edi | -ka | -n | t̪'a: | -la | -n | |
three | days | I | her | next to | stay | and | that | me | good | -cause | -ing | feel | -down | -ing | |
I lived with her for three days and that made me start to feel better | |||||||||||||||