…qeyálhes me thíyt ta’ héyeqw

…qeyálhes me thíyt ta’ héyeqw means ‘…before making your fire.‘.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

• qeyálh – before
• -es – possibly 3rd person agreement
• me – an untranslatable auxiliary verb, marks inception or starting, similar to English ‘come to…’. Probably a reduced form of emí – to come
• thíyt – to make, prepare, fix
• ta’ – your
• héyeqw – fire
  

  fire

Note: Ta’ (‘your’) can also be spelled and pronounced slightly differently, including as te’.