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Ewéta kw’ewat lheq’élexw means ‘no-one knew (anything)’‘, (lit. ‘No-one knew (it)’.

Ewéta mimele’ó:ylha means ‘There was no doll’.

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’.