Su xwe’í q’ólthet kw’ulh la, la hálém the kyó means ‘When she got back, the train was already gone’.
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kapú
Kapú is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘coat‘. You can also spell this word like this: kopú.
á:wkw’
A:wkw’ means ‘clothing’. You can also use it more generally for any belongings, such as tools.
íleqet
Ileqet means ‘to buy’‘. This word comes from iláq – ‘stern of a canoe,’, ‘stern man’, because traditionally it was common to travel and trade items carried in a canoe.
kw’ulh la hálém the kyó
Kw’ulh la hálém the kyó means ‘The train was already gone‘ or ‘The car was already gone’.
la hálém the kyó
La hálém te kyó means ‘The car (is) going’. Here Elizabeth is referring to a railroad car, so a fluent translation would be ‘The train is going’.
hálém
Hálém means ‘going’ or ‘to be going’.
Olsu la tés kw’e Lhq’á:lets
Olsu la tes kw’e Lhq’á:lets means ‘So I reached Vancouver’, or ‘So I got to Vancouver’.
…la tés kw’e Lhq’á:lets
…la tes kw’e Lhq’á:lets means ‘to reach Vancouver‘, or ‘…to get to Vancouver’.
tés
Tés means ‘to reach, to get to’. You can also use it for ‘to get close to, to approach’.