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

  Qeyálh means ‘before’.

…thíyt ta’ héyeqw means ‘…make your fire.‘.

Thíyt means ‘to make’ or ‘to prepare’. You can also use this to mean ‘to fix, to repair’, and for cleaning up your room or house.

Qasu élmetst kwe’s las tu thatíl means ‘And they’d wait until it was very dark’.

Thatìl means ‘to get dark’‘.

Ólmetst means ‘to wait for‘.

Lachexw xwehíwel, xwehí::wel lam kw’e ehíw means ‘You go upriver, waaaay upriver’.

Lachexw xwehíwel… means ‘You go upriver…’.

Xwehí::wel means ‘to go waaaay upriver’‘. It is based on xwehíwel – ‘to go upriver’, with special lengthening of the vowel for emphasis.