Mekw’stám te ileqelhtsthóxes, thútl’o xwelítem slhá:lí! means ‘That white lady bought me EVERYTHING!’. Literally: Everything (was) what (she) bought me, that white lady!
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thútl’o xwelítem slhá:lí
Thútl’o xwelítem slhá:li means ‘that white lady‘ or ‘that white woman’.
mekw’stám te ileqelhtsthóxes
Mekw’stám te ileqelhtsthóxes means ‘She bought me EVERYTHING!’. Literally it is ‘What she bought me was everything’ (in the language this word order indicates emphasis).
te ileqelhtsthóxes
te ileqelhtsthóxes means ‘What she bought me’. Literally it is ‘the (thing that she) bought me’.
Ileqelhtsthóxes te á:wk’w, me qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú
Ileqelhtsthóxes te á:wk’w, me qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú.qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú means ‘She bought me clothes, including shoes and a dress-coat’.
…qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú
…qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú means ‘…shoes and a dress-coat’ (literally ‘shoes and my dress-coat’). This is part of a larger sentence.
íleqelhsthóxes te á:wkw’
íleqelhsthóxes te á:wkw. means ‘She bought me clothes’.
íleqelhsthóxes thútl’o…
Ileqelhsthóxes thútl’o… means ‘She bought for me…’. The base word is íleqet – to buy.
íleqelhtsthóx
Ileqelhsthóx means ‘Buy for me’. The base word is íleqet – ‘to buy’.
s’íth’em
S’íth’em means ‘dress, gown, clothing, what you wear’. You can use it for any kind of clothes, but it is especially appropriate for traditional First Nations dress and regalia.