Archive | Torchlighting-words and phrases

Lachexw xwehíwel, xwehí::wel lam kw’e ehíw means ‘You go upriver, waaaay upriver’.

Lachexw xwehíwel… means ‘You go upriver…’.

Xwehí::wel means ‘to go waaaay upriver’‘. It is based on xwehíwel – ‘to go upriver’, with special lengthening of the vowel for emphasis.

Xwehíwel means ‘to go upriver’ or ‘to go upstream’.

Tl’o hó:kwexes kw’es héyeqws kw’es kw’étslexwes te sth’óqwi li te tl’ép te qó: means ‘It’s what (they) used to burn to see the fish below the water.’

Tl’o hó:kwexes kw’es héyeqws… is a partial phrase, meaning ‘It’s what (they) used to burn…’. There is no explicit word for ‘they’, this is just understood from context.

Yéqw means ‘to get burned (up)’. You could also translate it as ‘to burn’, but note that the subject is the thing that burns (not an agent who burns something else). For example, you could use yéqw in sentences like ‘It burned‘, or ‘The house burned (up)‘.

Tl’o hó:kwexes is a partial phrase, meaning ‘It’s what (they) used…’.

…kw’es kw’étslexwes te sth’óqwi li te tl’ép te qó: is a partial phrase, meaning ‘..to see the fish below the water’.