Archive | Torchlighting-words and phrases

Os lhéq’ su me chémetes á:lhtel mi te stl’ép means ‘They used to pack it down’ or ‘‘They would carry it to the bottom’.

os lhéq’ su means ‘used to’‘ or ‘(they) always used to’

me chémetes á:lhtel mi te stl’ép means ‘they pack it down‘ or ‘they carry it to the bottom’.

Stl’ep means ‘depth‘ or ‘bottom’. It is the noun form of tlép – ‘deep, low’.

Tl’ep means ‘deep‘ or ‘‘low’.

Chémet means ‘to pack on the back‘ or ‘to carry on the back‘.

Kw’as la súq’em te kw’íxw, kw’íxw siyólh means ‘…in order to look for pitch, pitch wood’. Literally it means ‘That you go look for pitch, pitch wood‘.

…Súq’em te kw’íxw, kw’íxw siyólh means ‘…To look for pitch, pitch wood’‘.

Súq’em means ‘to look for’‘ or ‘to seek’.