Kw’íxw siyólh means ‘pitch wood’.
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kw’íxw
By Stolo Shxweli on August 20, 2015 in Nature, Plants, Stories, Torchlighting, Torchlighting-words and phrases, Trees
Kw’íxw means ‘sap’ or ‘pitch’. You can also use kwíxw for ‘rubber’, or ‘gum’.
siyólh
Siyólh means ‘wood’ or ‘firewood’. You can use it for a piece of wood, a plank of wood, or a few pieces of wood together.
Yewál kw’as la kw’íyeqel lam te smámelet
Yewál kw’as la kw’íyeqel lam te smámelet means ‘First you climb to the mountains‘.
smámelet
By Stolo Shxweli on August 17, 2015 in Nature, Stories, Torchlighting, Torchlighting-words and phrases
Smámelet is another word for ‘mountain’ or ‘mountains’. Surprisingly, you can use the same form to mean ‘pebble’, or ‘small stone’.
smált
By Stolo Shxweli on August 14, 2015 in Nature, Stories, Torchlighting, Torchlighting-words and phrases
Smált means ‘rock’ or ‘stone’. You can use it for any size of stone—and even for a whole mountain.
yewál kw’as la kw’íyeqel
Yewál kw’as la kw’íyeqel means ‘first you climb‘.
kw’íyeqel
Kw’íyeqel means ‘to mountain climb’, or ‘to rock climb’‘. You can also use it to talk about climbing a hill.
kw’íy
Kw’íy means ‘to climb, to rise up’.
yewá:l
Yewá:l means ‘first’‘