Kw’as la súq’em te kw’íxw, kw’íxw siyólh.

Kw’as la súq’em te kw’íxw, kw’íxw siyólh means ‘…in order to look for pitch, pitch wood’.

Literally it means ‘That you go look for pitch, pitch wood‘.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and Structure

This phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• kw’as – that you (here ‘in order that you…‘, or ‘so that you…‘)
• la – an ‘auxiliary’ or ‘helper’ verb, often untranslatable but carries a sense of ‘go‘ (probably a reduced version of lam – ‘to go‘)
• súq’em – to look for, to seek
• te – the
• kw’íxw – pitch, sap (also rubber, gum)
• siyólh – wood