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'awhlaw I did it

-ding at that place, at that time

minłung-miwah-na:nahx twelve

nahdiminłung twenty

nahdiminłung-miwah-na:nahx twenty-two

nahding-yisxa:ni-mił after two days had passed

nahdin-tah ta:q'idin-tah either two times or three times

nahdiysxa:n

nahnin me:niwho:n two people are required (for the job)

nahx two

nahxa-le:n large (and valuable) blanket made from two (deer)hides sewn together; a 'double' blanket

nahx-dikin two hundred

nahxi-k'iq'os-na:diwul a mythical giant with two heads, on necks that swing around

nahxi-tehs'a two-pronged fish spear

nah-xowe:-ding located at both places, on both sides

siłwe kill it (one animal)!

xe' foot

Dictionary Entry [entry ID #744] (related entries)

yiłxa (or yiłxay) • it is dawning, day is breaking • verb (theme: yi-(s)-ł-xa:/xa:n) [imperfective]Semantic domain: time

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text: Verdena's grandmother's job as a nanny, line 59 (full story)
at that time something bad happened to her, when she was going home, she returns back on the fifth day in the evening (Friday night)

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 136 (full story)
twelve days I was lying there, and I kept laying there ...

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 140 (full story)
five days passed that way, it was in my arm

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 160 (full story)
"in two days, you're going to get up, you're going to sit up"

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 180 (full story)
the very next day they said, "tomorrow you're going to go home."