Osu thétstexwes thel á:yelesóx… here means ‘So (she) told my mother…’ (literally: ‘told my late ancestor’). The ‘she‘ is just understood from context.
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
This phrase has the following structure:
- osu – This word is a general sentence connector. Often untranslatable, here it means roughly so
- thétstexw – to tell, to say to
- -es – here, the –es ending marks the presence of a third person subject, that is someone other than you or me. The third person subject in this case is the understood ‘she‘
- thel – my (this form is usually used before a term for a female)
- á:yelesóx – late relative, here Elizabeth uses this to refer to her mother, literally it means ‘one who left us’, see thel á:yelesóx
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