Méle means literally ‘child’‘. You use méle to refer to people’s family members, not just any young person. (As a general term for any ‘young person’, regardless of whose child they are, you can use a different word: stá:xwelh – child for any young person.)
Kwelát means literally ‘to grasp, to take hold of’. You can also use it more generally for related meanings including have, get, bring and take.
Osu thétstexwes thel á:yelesóx… here means ‘So (she) told my mother…’ (literally: ‘told my late ancestor’). The ‘she‘ is just understood from context.
Thel á:yelesóx means ‘my late relative’. Literally it means ‘one who has left me’, or ‘one who has departed me’. This is a common way to refer to deceased family members, and here Elizabeth uses it to refer to her late mother.
A:yel means ‘to leave, to go away, to depart‘. To talk about leaving a specific person, you use a related word: á:yeles – ‘to leave (him/her, etc.)’
Thétstexw means ‘to tell’ .
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲ e’óthel máqa means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me [i.e. take me on a trip], even though I was just three or four years old.
Yalh we ol selh lhíxw ew x̲ máqa means ‘I was just three or four years old’‘. (Note that Elizabeth repeats the lhíxw twice, literally ‘I was just three—three years old‘. This phrase has many words that do not translate directly into English.)
Lhíxw ew x̲e’óthel máqa means ‘three or four years old‘. Literally it means ‘three or four snows’.
X̲e’óthel máqa means ‘four years old’‘. Literally it means ‘four snows’.
Osu stl’ís kw’es las ye sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me’.
Stl’ís kw’es sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(She) wanted to accompany me’. Less literally, you could also translate it as ‘She wanted to take me on a trip’.
Sq’eq’ósthóxes means ‘(she) accompanied me…’. The ‘she’ is not explicitly stated, but you understand it from the context.
Stl’ís kw’es… means ‘(She) wanted to…’.
Sq’eq’ósthóx is a partial Halq’eméylem phrase meaning ‘accompany me…’.
Osu xwe’í:lsthoxwes the xwelítem slhá:lí means ‘So a white lady came to us/visited us’.
Xwe’í:lsthóxw… is a partial phrase, meaning ‘….visited us’, or ‘…brought (it) to us’.
Xwe’í:lstexw means ‘to bring (it)’. Elizabeth also uses this for ‘to come to’, as in coming to visit someone (though there are also other words for visiting).
Xwe’í means ‘to arrive‘ or ‘to come here’.
Li tetha kw’es stá tset means ‘That’s where we were living’. You could also translate it as ‘That’s where we were staying’.
