Osu me o wōqw’ethet telí kw’etha ahíw

Osu me o wōqw’ethet teli kw’e ahíw means ‘So (you) just drift down from upriver‘.

The ‘you’ is just understood from context.

Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

• osu – this is a general sentence connector, often untranslatable, but often matching with English ‘and so’
• me – this is an untranslatable auxiliary, related to the meaning ‘come’
• o – just, only
• wōqw’ethet – to drift yourself
• teli – from
• kw’tha – there (here maybe translatable simply as ‘the’)
• ahíw – upriver

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling