lhí:lhets’els á:lhtel

Lhí:lhets’els á:lhtel means ‘They (were) woodcutting’. (The ‘were‘ is just understood from context.)

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure

The phrase consists of these elements:

• lhí:lhets’els – woodcutting
• á:lhtel – they, them

Note:

The a-vowel in the word for ‘they/them‘ (á:lhtel) sounds like the vowel in English ‘head‘.

This word is very similar to a different word, álhtel – ‘to eat‘. However, in the word for ‘to eat‘, the first vowel sounds more like the a in English ‘had‘.