Stolo Shxweli

Tl’o kw’ses x̲á:m te mimele’ó:ylha means ‘Because the doll (was) crying.’

Tl’o kw’ses x̲á:m means ‘Because (it was) crying’.

X̲ám means ‘to cry’.

Li kw’etha kw’ses lhálets’etes álhtel means ‘There they cut it up’.

Li kw’etha means ‘there’. You use this with remote objects, i.e. for things that are far away. 

Lhálets’et means ‘cutting (it) up’.

Su la kw’íystexwes lam kw’e chíchelh te lá:lém means ‘(He) took (it) to the attic’.

Chíchelhs te lá:lém means ‘attic’‘. Literally it is ‘upper part of the house‘.

Chíchelh means ‘high up’‘, ‘on top’, or ‘above’. Chíchelh Siyám is often used for ‘the Lord’, literally ‘respected leader above‘.

Kwíystexw means ‘to take up’, as in carrying or moving something upwards. The base word is kw’íy – ‘to climb’.