olsu súq’t thel méle

Olsu súqt thel méle means ‘So I looked for my doll’. (Literally Elizabeth says ‘child’, rather than ‘doll’.)

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

This phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• olsu – so I (osu means ‘so’), the -l here marks ‘I’)
• súq’t – to look for (this is a more specific form related to súq’em – ‘to look for something’ (more general)
• thel – my this form, with th, is more common with females
• méle – child (here Elizabeth uses this to talk about her doll)