Dictionary Entry [entry ID #98] (related entries)
-tah • among, around (a place); too, as well, among the others, at times, either...or... • postposition
Note: also: -taw 'the one that is among'
- mitah among them, around where they are [inanimate object]
- nohtah among us [1pl object]
- yo:-ch'in'-tah here and there, in different places [literally, there-towards-around]
- dungwho'-tah someone or another
- k'iwinya'nya:n-tah among people
- nahdin-tah ta:q'idin-tah either two times or three times [literally, two times-or three times-or]
- te:se:ya:-te:-tah I will probably go too
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- tah-ding
in among it (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- tahxw
in among them (encl.) (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- de:ch'ing'-tah
over here (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- de:ch'ing'-tah ch'iningya:-te
he or she might come over here (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- yo:ch'ing'-tah
over there (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- yo:ch'ing'-tah na:se:yay-te
I might go over there (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- łah-xw-tah xowh
just as if, just as though (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- łah-xw-taw
maybe that way (spoken by Verdena Parker)
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- -tah noh-tah (spoken by Billy Carpenter)
- -tah noh-tah (spoken by Marjorie Jarnaghan)
Examples from texts
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he thinks, it could be, it's not known for sure (what he's thinking) (I guess that's what he thinks)
then, somebody (strange person) calls, he always listens to everything (all the messages)
they walk around the house
haya:ł miq'it-dahky'a:n-q'it dahsid'ut'-tah ła'ay-xw q'ut dists'e:n łiqay mina:t ya:silay 'aht'ing-xw-'unt'e k'iwitł'o:n
the linens (tablecloths) are all stiff and white, there was lace on the edges
haya:ł mine:jixomił hayi-xw na:'iya' haya:ł tsumehstł'o:n ya'xo:tehłts'it xoł dinił'a' ya:'uschwe'n diywho' [nay...] na:k'iwilxut'-tah
and then after a while, she'd walk around there, then she started to get acquainted with women, they started teaching her sewing and stuff like that
also cutting out dresses, she became a seamstress
she would make some dresses sometimes, some people hired her
it could be three years or four years she looked after that boy
haya:ł 'a:ya'de:ne' "me:lah-'e:n' ła'ay-xw-q'ut tin do:-xokyun-ya:xole:n do:-heh 'a:ya:ch'ondehsne' keh na:yaydił na:yima:n ya:xoxa: hay xok'isdiya:n'-tah"
And then they said: "(As for) some people (that came across), they really (in a big way) don't have any common sense. They never thought 'Hey, let's go back after them,' their elders."
haya:ł-q'ut hay mich'ing' ya'widil [ya'xowile:l] haya:ł-q'ut me'dil-me'-tah 'aht'ing k'isdiyun yehwinyay diywho' 'aht'ing
And then they are going toward it (the land), and into the canoes the old people put in all of their (stuff, belongings).
Children too (in addition to old people), then they started transporting them across.
A long time they were staying there. And they built houses.
snow and things, it gets cold, for that reason.
Salmon too are there, we can fish there, other things like eels also we'll eat.
Deer also are walking around there."
Among other things, they killed several deer and they also worked on (gathering) salmon.
And then, what will become some dances like the jump dance, no more (they won't be for you)!
You can't dance (in the dances), they will be for Hupas only."
He (the Creator) made the dances for them.
... I don't think about things like boys
and then it took off real fast, at once it was moving fast, around (the corners)
"she seems like she's only going to be breathing a little while longer, it looks like only about two more hours from now"
"you can feed her stuff that that's like juice"
"let her eat stuff like mashed potatoes"
lots of drinks, sodas (summer drinks), all kinds of drinks
a lot of girls came up from Weitchpec way, like Yuroks, [because of a flood] and then
only coyote along with other animals was there
... running around, like deer, I wish bear was running around"
and then all the animals kept coming out, like the squirrel
and even mountain lion, they all built houses
He goes to Willow Creek sometimes, then sometimes...
"Then sometime maybe you'll learn it."
And then, after that, OK, I go around all over the place, here and there.
whił-na:'uł'its to:-xw-tah whił-na:'uł'its haya:ł dungwho'owh ya'dehłts'e:-ne'in hay ch'e:xo:'owh-ding haya:ł
I drive around down by the river, and some other people lived out there by the gate, and then...
...it drives around, we would go drive around down by the river sometimes, and then she always liked that, then...
diywho' nikya:w xehł-niyiłxe:-tah nohna:tse: ch'e:'inła:t me:tsah-xosin ya:'uxis-te:-ye: 'e'iliw haya:ł
... a big truck, when it passes us, that's bad, it feels like [the motorcycle] is going to start flying.