Archive | Torchlighting-words and phrases

Mámt tútl’o means ‘He gave them away’.

Mámt means ‘to give away‘.

T’ókw’ means ‘to travel home’. Elders commonly add lam (‘go‘) or me (‘come‘), to make lam t’ókw’ for ‘go home’, or me t’ókw’ for ‘come home’.

Lhi kw’es lheq ew lhíxw o te sxélches, láts’ kw’es ew léts’es o te sxélches means ‘Sometimes his catch is just three, other times his catch is just one’.

láts’ kw’es ew léts’es o te sxélches means ‘other (times) he just catches one’. Literally it means ‘Other that his catch is just one’.

ew léts’es o te sxélches means ‘his catch is just one’.

ew léts’es o te sxélche means ‘the catch is just one’.

ew léts’es o… means ‘just one…’‘.

Láts’ means ‘other, different’. You can also use it for ‘foreign’, or ‘strange’.