Author Archive | Stolo Shxweli

Osu ólmetst kw’as e kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi means ‘(You) wait until you see the fish’.

…kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi is a partial phrase, meaning ‘..see the fish.’.

Osu me o wōqw’ethet teli kw’e ahíw means ‘So (you) just drift down from upriver‘. The ‘you’ is just understood from context.

…telí kw’etha ahíw means ‘…from upriver‘.

…me o wōqw’ethet means ‘…(you) just drift….‘.  The ‘you’ is just understood from context.

You can translate wōqw’ethet as ‘to drift‘, but literally it means ‘to drift yourself’. This word comes from wōqw’, and the -thet ending means ‘self‘

Wōqw’ means ‘to drift’ or ‘to drift downriver’.

Qasu élmetst kwe’s las tu thatíl qeyálhes me thíyt ta’ héyeqw means ‘And so they’d wait till it got very dark, before making the fire.’‘.

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