Thel á:yelesóx means ‘my late relative’. Literally it means ‘one who has left me’, or ‘one who has departed me’. This is a common way to refer to deceased family members, and here Elizabeth uses it to refer to her late mother.
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Structure
The is literally a phrase meaning ‘(the) one who has left me’, with this structure:
The base word is á:yel – ‘to leave, depart’. A:yeles means to leave a specific person (as in ‘she left me‘).
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