Dictionary Entry [entry ID #59] (related entries)
Phrases and expressionsmił • when..., after... [literally, with (after a phrase)] • temporal adverb • Semantic domain: time
- minyay-mił when the time for it came
- nahding-yisxa:ni-mił after two days had passed [literally, two times-it dawned-when]
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after awhile it was walking
when it rolled into them a big noise came up, then it dawned on her and she thought
He hadn't been inside long when he saw Buzzard flying around in the sky.
After he had sat eating for a long time,
And so it came about that Old Buzzard lost his bet.
They learned when it (the land) comes up and when it goes back down.
And then when it started to come up several of them started to run, took off running as a group.
And then they stayed there, they studied it to see at what time...
Again when it gets warm (they say)...
haya:ł 'a:ya:xołch'ide:ne' "[do:-me:ya'-do:n'] de:-nohq'it-xw-mił do:-me'de:din digyung de:sohłts'e'
And then he told them: "He who is above us doesn't want you to live here (in Blue Lake).
And then the leader told them: "The Creator doesn't want you to live here.
"As for them," the Creator said: "Redwood Creek people can't stand (on holy ground).
They could (only) watch from a distance.
And that's how people started living in Hoopa.
and then, when I got a little bigger, they said [the old people]
... everything I learned, from that
when I was eleven, they said
"that's why her belly has gotten (that way)"
and that's the way it happened, and after a short time went by
when it became late afternoon ...
when it got a little later in the afternoon I vomited blood
hay na:mitł'a'-ding xontah-ding na:yda' haya:ł ch'ine'ina:wh 'a:k'iwilaw-ch'inehł'e:n-ding-mił hay whił-dinił'a'-ch'iłchwe-ne'in
then I stayed at home, and then my teacher came from the school ...
when they're going to leave
at the end of two weeks
... and then, putting his arm across my throat, he told me
he's roughing me around, showing me how tough he is
and then, when he got done with that, he told me
he reached in after him. he pulled him out by his face
all of them they all spoke to one another
and even mountain lion, they all built houses
and then in the middle of time, there were a lot of stories taking place
"and then when morning comes, in the morning you will all wake up"
in the middle of the night, I guess he was sound asleep, and the sticks poked through his eyes--his eyelids.
... they're all going to wake up, when he returns, we are waiting for him
After we tipped over three times, my leg burned.
When I put it in first gear, (without my seeing it) he pushed it off the stand.