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!”

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

mit̪o ʔa: shaba:de
	mit̪o	ʔa:	shaba:de
	you	I	teach
I teach you
EC

mu:l ʔa: mit̪o shaba:de
	mu:l	ʔa:	mit̪o	shaba:de
	that	I	you	teach
I teach you that
EC

haba: koshadit̪in
	haba:	ko	-shadi	-t̪i	-n
	tongue	out	-put in	-mev.	-ing
sticking one's tongue out
ES

mo:wal haba: jaxa:
	mo:wal	haba:	ja-	-xa:
	him	tongue	with knife-	-cut
cut his tongue
ES

mo:wal haba: pʰaleyka
	mo:wal	haba:	pʰaley	-ka
	him	tongue	burn	-cause
(they) burned his tongue
ES

haba: maliʔkan
	haba:	mali	-ʔ	-ka	-n
	tongue	burn	-semelf.	-cause	-ing
burn (someone's) tongue
ES