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t'ehxich

Dictionary Entry [entry ID #1330] (related entries)

t'ehxich • young girl (before puberty) • compound noun • Semantic domain: people

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text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 353 (full story)
xosta:n-ding me:nundiyay-e: xoł-ts'iwhda:wh t'ehxich nahx sile'n
six years passed, I had two girls

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 365 (full story)
hay ts'isehłwe:n haya:ł hay na:mitł'a'-ding ła' k'iye t'ehxich sile'n
... that (baby) he killed. And then after that, again, I had a girl [Debbie]

text: Verdena's life story, part 1, line 372 (full story)
yo:w-xw yida:ch'ing t'ehxich ła:n ningyay k'ina'-tah xomił
a lot of girls came up from Weitchpec way, like Yuroks, [because of a flood] and then