Color Coding

nouns = green

verb endings = red

prefixes = orange

preverbs = blue

questions = purple

locatives = pink

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1. Kue wo-new-sleg 'ee mok'w 'wah-pew.
   The moon had no wife.

2. Keech 'o serh-ker-mery.
   He was lonely.

3. 'O skey-wok 'wah-pew kee 'wo-'oh.
   He wanted a wife for himself. 

4. Says, Kep'el 'o 'oo-lem' nue-mee mer-ger-mery
   wey'yo-no'.
   (He) says, At Kep'el there are very beautiful girls.

5. Tue' wee'eeet 'o so sloy-chokw'.
   Then he went down there. 

6. 'We-nahschewen 'o hlom' koora'.
   In the evening, he grabbed one (of the women)

7. Noo kem 'emee wo skewok, kem 'o nowone'm.
   He didn't like her either, again he brought her.

8. Kem koleen 'o hlo'm.
   Again he took another one.

9. Kem 'o kwomhle'n.
   He returned her too.

10. Tue' kem koleen 'ee nue hlom', keech 'o mok'w kue we'yono'.
    Again he went to take another, but there were no girls left.

11. Neekeechyue keech ma hlee', kem 'emee wo skewok, kwesee 'o newom' we'yon.
    He took them all but didn't like them, and then he saw a girl.

12. Kue 'o ket'ue'l weet 'o chyuuek'we'n.
    She was sitting in the pond.

13. 'O ruero'w.
    She sang.

14. 'Esee 'o hergeekwsuer'wer'y.
    And she smiled.

15. Mos nuemee noore'w, mos nuemee noore'w.
    She was not very beautiful, she was not very beautiful.

16. 'O ge'm, Tue' wee'eeet kee negemek'.
    He said, I'll bring that one.

17. Kwesee 'o negem' kue we'yon.
    And he brought the girl.

18. Kwesee paa' peyowok'w kue ko'l 'w-oh kue we'yon.
    No, that girl worked.

19. 'O sloyhlketom' kue 'o'lehl, koypoh keech hewehl 'o pew.
    And she swept the house, in the morning she got up and cooked.

20. Nuemeechyue soo ko'l hoh.
    She worked in every way.

21. 'Esee 'eeko'hl 'w-ahkwsek', 'eeko'hl 'w-ahkwsek'.
    She was always laughing.

22. Tue' wee'eeet, 'o ge'm, weet keet 'n-ahpew.
    That one, he said, she will be my wife.

23. Tue' weet 'o kooychkwo'm.
    He bought her.

24. 'Ema kooychkwo'm kue 'ue-psech 'o nahchpue'm kue 'we-cheeek. Kooychkwo'm kwesee kue we'yon, kwesee kue locho'm wee'.
    He bought her, he gave her father the money. He bought her, and that girl was the toad.

25. Tue' weeshtue' 'w-ahpew wonewsleg.
    And that one was Moon's wife.

26. Tue' 'o 'oole'm kue '-uueks, keech 'o 'oole'm kue '-uueksoh.
    And they had children, they had children.

27. Tue' wee'eeet kue hoogech weeshtue' '-uueksoh.
    The stars are their kids.

28. Tue' mocho keech 'o saawelee'm, keepuen 'o saawelee'm, eet says weet 'o pel, repeecho'm kue '-uueksoh.
    If they get cold, in winter they got cold, it says they fight, she spanks her kids.

29. Tue' weet 'o tetolohlehl, tue' weet keech 'o ten, tue' weet tee'n mehl 'we-ten.
    They cry and it rains, that's why it rains.

30. Kue '-uueksoh repeecho'm tetolohle'm.
    She spanks her children and they cry.

31. And kue keeshen mos 'o nuemee saawelee'm.
    And in the summer they weren't cold.

32. Tue' weet 'em hlee ten.
    So it doesn't rain.