Th’íset means ‘to nail (it)’ or ‘to tack (it)’.
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músmes
Músmes means ‘cow’. Elders borrowed this word from the Chinook Jargon trade language (Chinook Jargon may have adapted it in turn from the Cree word for a moose).
Osu ólmetst kw’as e kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi
Osu ólmetst kw’as e kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi means ‘(You) wait until you see the fish’.
…kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi
…kw’étslexw te sth’óqwi is a partial phrase, meaning ‘..see the fish.’.
Osu me o wōqw’ethet telí kw’etha ahíw
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
…telí kw’etha ahíw means ‘…from upriver‘.
…me o wōqw’ethet
…me o wōqw’ethet means ‘…(you) just drift….‘. The ‘you’ is just understood from context.
wōqw’ethet
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’
Wōqw’ means ‘to drift’ or ‘to drift downriver’.
Qasu élmetst kwe’s las tu thatíl qeyálhes me thíyt ta’ héyeqw.
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.’‘.