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

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

Télexw means ‘to learn, to find out‘.

Stl’í means ‘to want, to need‘.

Tl’o kw’ses x̲á:m te mimele’ó:ylha means ‘Because the doll (was) crying.’

Tl’o kw’ses x̲á:m means ‘Because (it was) crying’.

X̲ám means ‘to cry’.

Li kw’etha kw’ses lhálets’etes álhtel means ‘There they cut it up’.

Li kw’etha means ‘there’. You use this with remote objects, i.e. for things that are far away. 

Lhálets’et means ‘cutting (it) up’.