A:yel means ‘to leave, to go away, to depart‘. To talk about leaving a specific person, you use a related word: á:yeles – ‘to leave (him/her, etc.)’
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thétstexw
Thétstexw means ‘to tell’ .
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲e’óthel máqa
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲ e’óthel máqa means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me [i.e. take me on a trip], even though I was just three or four years old.
Yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲ e’óthel máqa
Yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲ máqa means ‘I was just three or four years old’‘. (Note that Elizabeth repeats the lhíxw twice, literally ‘I was just three—three years old‘. This phrase has many words that do not translate directly into English.)
lhíxw ew x̲e’óthel máqa
Lhíxw ew x̲e’óthel máqa means ‘three or four years old‘. Literally it means ‘three or four snows’.
x̲e’óthel máqa
X̲e’óthel máqa means ‘four years old’‘. Literally it means ‘four snows’.
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me’.
stl’ís kw’es sq’eq’ósthóxes
Stl’ís kw’es sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me’. Less literally, you could also translate it as ‘She wanted to take me on a trip’.
sq’eq’ósthóxes
Sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(she) accompanied me…’. The ‘she’ is not explicitly stated, but you understand it from the context.
stl’ís kw’es…
Stl’ís kw’es… means ‘(She) wanted to…’.