everything
mekw’stám means ‘everything’.
Literally it means ‘all/everything what (is)‘.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- mekw’ – all, every (this sounds like MOOK, except that the k is popped and rounded, i.e. kw’)
- stám – what, what (is)
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
(Note: this audio is from a story, Crazy Painter II, and in her pronunciation here Elizabeth is putting special emphasis on the word.)
Structure and Related Words
The Elders compose mekw’stám in the following way (cf. mekw’ swáyel – ‘every day‘):
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