Thursday his house becomes black.
Sx̲e’óthels qesu la xwá tsq’éyx̲ te syétl’q’tes te lá:léms means ‘Thursday his house becomes black’.
Literally it means ‘Thursday and.so (it) becomes black the paint-job of the house (of him)’.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- Sx̲e’óthels –Thursday
- qesu –and so
- la – an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’ (‘helper’) verb, a reduced form of lam – to go
- xwá – to become
- tsq’éyx̲ – black
- te –the
- syétl’q’t –paint.job
- te – the
- lá:lém – house
- -s – here the -s means ‘of’, indicating that the house is possessed by understood ‘he‘
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Related words
The structure of this phrase is as follows:
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