Northern Pomo Phrasicon

if you want to speak another language, you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”

du: janon daʔadin meʔ ma mu:l haba: t̪'oxale nanway

du:

jano

-n

daʔa

-di

-n

meʔ

mu:l

haba:

t̪'o

-xale

nanway

other

speak

-ing

want

-present

-ing

char.

you

that

tongue

suck

-should

disc.mrkr.

if you want to speak another (language), you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”

kawina:myajul t̪'ot̪'okan
	kawi	-na:m	-yajul	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-ka	-n
	child	-acc.	-acc.	mother's milk	-nurse	-cause	-ing
the baby is nursing the baby is being breastfed the baby is being made to suckle
ES

baakayajul t̪'ot̪'okan
	baaka	-yajul	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-ka	-n
	cow	-acc.	nurse	-redup.	-cause	-ing
the cow is being fed (from its mother's udder) the cow is being nursed the cow is suckling
ES

baaka ho:ʔya:ʔ t̪'ot̪'on
	baaka	ho:ʔ	-ya:ʔ	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-n
	cow	small	-nom.	suckle	-redup.	-ing
the small cow is nursing the small cow is suckling
ES

tʰoʔo: bits'a:lin
	tʰoʔo:	bi-	-ts'a:li	-n
	acorn mush	with lips-	-suck	-ing
eating acorn mush (by sucking off of one's fingers)
ES

tʰoʔo: ʔa: bits'a:ladin
	tʰoʔo:	ʔa:	bi-	-ts'a:l	-adi	-n
	acorn mush	I	with lips-	-suck	-present	-ing
I am going to eat acorn mush (by sucking it off of my fingers)
ES

tʰoʔo: ʔa: bits'a:lade
	tʰoʔo:	ʔa:	bi-	-ts'a:l	-ade
	acorn mush	I	with lips-	-suck	-present
I am going to eat acorn mush (by sucking it off of my fingers) (2)
ES

tʰoʔo: ʔa: bits'a:lkʰemna
	tʰoʔo:	ʔa:	bi-	ts'a:l	-kʰemna
	acorn mush	I	with lips-	-suck	-future
I will eat acorn mush (by sucking it off of my fingers)
ES

ma:n tʰoʔo: bits'a:li
	ma:n	tʰoʔo:	bi-	-ts'a:li
	she	acorn mush	with lips-	-suck
she eats acorn mush (by sucking it off of her fingers)
ES

haba:wi t̪'ojin
	haba:	-wi	t̪'o	-ji	-n
	tongue	-with	suckle	-semelf.	-ing
(a baby) suckling with its tongue (a child) nursing with its tongue
EC