Word Studies
- (26) sgigwo:hno 'that'
- sgi- particle 'that' (this is a bound
morpheme and must be followed by an attributive suffix)
-gwo attributive suffix 'continuative'
-hno 'declarative' (the meanings of this suffix are more complex than just "declarative". Can also have the flavor of "well, now..." in narration.)
- (27) age:hya 'woman'
- a- '3rd person singular'
-ge:hya noun root 'woman' - (28) a:tsi:'hihe'i 'she was killing her'
- a:tsi- pronominal prefix, 3rd person
indefinite subject to 3rd person singular object; attached to
consonant initial stems.
-h- verb root 'kill'
-ih aspect suffix 'imperfective'
-e'i 'reportative' - (29) iyuhsdiha 'like'
- iyuhsdi- particle 'like' (characterize)
-ha 'emphatic' - (30) yu:na:nagi:sa 'when they would start out'
- y- prepronominal prefix 'conditional'.
- u:n- '3rd person plural'
- -a:nagi- verb root 'start out'
- -'s aspect suffix 'hortative' (imperative)
- -a modal suffix 'immediate'
- (31) so:gwu 'one'
- (32) age:hya (See No. 27)
- (33) anigolohsge'i 'they had lost her'
- ani- '3rd person plural'
- -golo- verb root 'lose someone'
- -hsg aspect suffix 'imperfective'
- -e'i 'reportative'
- (34) u:nadeya:ta:nele'i 'they became antagonized'
- u:n- '3rd person plural'
- -adeya:ta:ne- verb root 'become antagonized, angry'
- -l aspect suffix 'perfective'
- -e'i 'reportative'
- (35) anihsgaya 'men'
- ani- '3rd person plural'
- -hsgaya noun root 'man'
- (36) so:gwu 'one'
- (37) ago:lohsgv:'i 'she would be lost'
- a- '3rd person singular'
- -go:lo- 'lose someone, be lost'
- -hsk 'imperfective' (somewhere in here he's missing the passive marker)
- -v:'i modal suffix 'participle'.
- (38) tso:'i:yani (tso:'i iyani:) 'three of
them'
- tso:'(i)- three
-iyani 'of them' (used to enumerate animate objects) - (39) duh:le'i 'she killed them'
- d- 'distributive (plural) object'
u:- '3rd person singular'
-h- verb root 'kill'. See No. 21.
-'l aspect suffix 'perfective'
-e'i 'reportative' - (40-41) yv:gi u:wa:su:gali See No. 5 and 6.
- (42) hno: 'declarative'(Well; Then)
- (43) u:hlsgwa:hldi particle 'finally'
- (44) nv:kine 'fourth'
- nv:ki- 'four'
-ne ordinal suffix '-th' - (45) gesv:'i 'it was'
- g- ' 3rd person singular'
-e- verb root 'state of being'
-s 'perfective'
-v:'i 'participle'. - (46) age:hya See No. 27.
- (47) u:nihsvdv:'ne'i 'they trapped her'
- u:ni- pronominal prefix, 3rd person plural to
3rd person singular, attached to perfective stems with consonant
initials.
-hsvdv:' verb root 'trap'
-n aspect suffix 'perfective'
-e'i 'reportative' - (48-49) yv:gi u:wa:su:gali See Nos. 5 and 6.
- (50) galo:gwe: 'guns' (semantic meaning extended from "yellow locust tree" the material used for making bows).
- (51) gvhdi particle 'using, with, from'. Derived from ᎬᏗᎭ
- (52) da:tsi:'sdayo:hihe'i 'they fired at her'
- d- 'distributive object'
a:tsi- '3rd person indefinite object'
-hsdayo:h- verb root 'shoot'. (Note h-' alternation rule.)
-ih aspect suffix 'imperative'
-e'i ' reportative'
ᏴᎩ ᎤᏩᏑᎦᎵ- Paragraph 2
6. ᏍᎩᏉᏃ ᎠᎨᏯ ᎠᏥᎯᎮᎢ. 7. ᎢᏳᏍᏗᎭ (30) ᏳᎾᎾᎩᏌ ᏐᏊ ᎠᎨᏯ ᎠᏂᎪᎶᏍᎨᎢ. 8. ᎤᎾᏕᏯᏔᏁᎴᎢ
(35) ᎠᏂᏍᎦᏯ ᏐᏊ ᎠᎪᎶᏍᎬᎢ. 9. ᏦᎢ ᎢᏯᏂ ᏚᎴᎢ (40) ᏴᎩ ᎤᏩᏑᎦᎵ. 10. Ꮓ ᎤᎵᏍᏆᎸᏗ
ᏅᎩᏁ (45) ᎨᏒᎢ ᎠᎨᏯ ᎤᏂᏒᏛᏁᎢ ᏴᎩ ᎤᏩᏑᎦᎵ (50) ᏗᎦᎶᏇ ᎬᏗ ᏓᏥᏍᏓᏲᎯᎮᎢ. Phonetic Transcription - 2nd paragraph
6. sgigwo:hno age:hya a:tsi:'hihe:'i. 7. iyuhsdiha (30) yu:na:nagi:'sa so:gwu age:hya anigolohsge'i. 8. u:nadeya:ta:nele'i (35) anihsgaya so:gwu ago:lohsgv:'i. 9. tso:'i:yani duh:le'i (40) yv:gi u:wa:su:gali. 10. hno: u:hlsgwa:hldi nv:kine (45) gesv:'i age:hya u:nihsvdv:'ne:'i yv:gi u:wa:su:gali (50) digalo:gwe: gvhdi da:tsi:sdayo:hihe'i.
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