Archive | Torchlighting-words and phrases

Xepá:ltel is the word for a ‘wood carving knife’.

Is t’wa eystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa tl’o su lóy kw’es ew hamámts o te sth’óqwi means ‘I guess he liked to go torchlighting, because he was just giving away the fish’.

lóy kw’es ew hamámts o te sth’óqwi means ‘(he) was only just giving away the fish’. The ‘he’ is just understood from context.

ew hamámts o te sth’óqwi means ‘(he) was just giving away the fish’. ‘He’ is just understood from context, as is common in the language.

Hamámt means ‘giving away’.

Is tw’a… means ‘I guess…‘ or ‘It must be that…’.

Eystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa means ‘He liked to go torchlighting’.

Os lheq’ su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’ means ‘So he would always just go and gave them away when he got home’.

Su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’ means ‘So he just went and gave them away when he got home’.