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Wáyel qelsu súq’t thel méle means ‘Next day I looked for my doll’. (Literally Elizabeth says ‘child’, rather than ‘doll’.)

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

Olsu… means ‘So I…’

Wáyel means ‘to dawn, to become day’. It is the base form for swáyel – ‘day’

Osu me lhíts’etes yutl’ólem means ‘So they cut it up’ .

Yutl’ólem means ‘they, them’.

Tl’ís kw’es télexwes we is stám kw’es alxwítsel means ‘(They) wanted to find out what was inside’.

…stám kw’es alxwítsel means ‘…what was inside’.

Alxwítsel means ‘in the middle of, inside of‘.

Tl’ís kw’es télexwes… means ‘(They) wanted to find out…’.