Dictionary Entry [entry ID #2356] (related entries)
Phrases and expressions-ding (or din) • at that place, at that time • locative suffix
- xontah-ding at the house, at home [literally, house-at (place)]
- hay-me'de:din-ding the place where she wants to go [literally, the-she wants it-at]
- xoda:nya:-ding when the sun has gone down, after the sun has set [literally, (sun) went down-at]
Audio (click to listen)
- dishtang'a:ding
Tish Tang (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- -ding
area (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- xowhday-ding no:k'ilts'it
hiccup (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- -ding
place (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- dahdimo:t'-ding
name of a place where there is a knoll, downriver someplace (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- me'dilding
Me'dilding (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ta'k'imiłding
Hostler Ranch (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ch'idilwa:wh-ding
the court (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ch'idilwa:wh-ding ma: dahya'wing'ay
judge (spoken by Verdena Parker)
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- -ding xontah-ding (spoken by Billy Carpenter)
- -ding xontah-ding (spoken by Marjorie Jarnaghan)
Examples from texts
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he stands up at (beside) the table
he runs into my bathroom there
somebody calls when I'm not home
haya:ł misGiy'ts miq'it-dahky'a:n sa'a:n-ding dahno'indil hayah ma'k'i'iłkit hay mije'e:din ya'k'e'iya'n haya:ł
then there was a small table they sat at, she would feed the child, they would eat
and then right there, it's only there in the kitchen they can sit up to the table and eat
do: ch'ilyo' sile'n hay na:mitł'a'-ding haya:ł ch'in 'e'n tin niwho:n-ne'in hayi de:-ch'in ta'na:n [ya:w] ya'iwhiwh miq'it-xw 'aht'in-ding
she never liked it no more, then it was no longer really good because he would suck up water (and spray it) all over the top
for that reason, she wouldn't eat very much, and then I guess
it could be three years or four years she looked after that boy
hayah-din do'n xo'ye: 'a:'udyaw haya:ł hay na'widahł-din na'te'ida:wh chwola'-din nay'iłxa'-mił na:wilwił-ding
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)
that's the end of the story, after that she didn't work
There they lived for a long time and then...
the old people, some of them, they were getting elderly (couldn't travel any more) and then...
Then they started measuring it (the time the land stays up) over again, they're watching it (every day).
haya:ł k'iye:-ding dahxo:diwing'a:n k'iye: ninis'a:n dahwila:l hayah me:ya:xo:ning'a:n hayah k'iye: ya'de:lts'e'
And then when they ran across again, the next floating land (island) they ran to it, they stayed/camped there.
And then over there (back on the other side) they arrived back there (in canoes).
...there for you. It will become your land, the place where you will live."
And then after that they started travelling.
For many years they travelled that way...
Finally, they came near Eureka.
We're going to go to that land that was made for us.
And then their leader said "Now it is time for us to leave."
You have to keep going to that land he has given you.
You will always live at that place where we arrive, it will become your land."
in the area up the river
where the river comes around the land, they said:
"There! It looks like a fawn's face!" And then...
he (the leader) said, "There, it will become your land, 'Fawn's-face-sticking-out-place' (we'll call it)."
It came to be called Diyshta:ng-'a:ding. They lived there for a long time.
And then they went along downriver.
Then further downriver, finally (they came to) ta'k'imiLding.
They could (only) watch from a distance.
nahding me:nundiy siwhdahwh hay whunchwing ya'dehłts'e-ne'in-ding haya:ł hay whichwo:-ne'in haya:ł hay whis'-ne'in ta:q'in ya'dehłts'e-ne'in haya:ł
two years passed, in the place where my mother lived, and then my poor old grandmother, my poor old uncle, the three of them [including my mother] were living there, and then
"they say she can't live at the house," my mother
... na:'uste' haya:ł whe:-'e:n we:da' xontah-ding hay whichwo ch'iwhinehłyiw haya:ł xoma:lyo' ła:n k'isdiyun na:wa:?-ne'in hayah-ding
... she worked. as for me, I stayed at home, my grandmother raised me, and then her friends, a lot of elderly people used to be alive at that time.
I woke up in the morning, and it turned out I was hurting all over my body,
and then "no" I said, suddenly I feel sick all over
also under my arms it hurts all over
she [mother] told her [grandmother], "I already told both of you a long time ago"
in the living room, and then,
I lay down where it was warm
they're building a sawmill close to us, and the boss lives there, and he has a new car
and then it was running fast, I could really feel it,
at the place where hospital was
twelve days I was lying there, and I kept laying there ...
and then after that they said
after drinking (tea) I was still thirsty, I said that I wanted water
at the place where the incision is, they laid on another thick bandage
"in two days, you're going to get up, you're going to sit up"
"you're going to walk as far as the end of the bed"
I walked to the end of the bed somehow
after that the next they did the same thing with me again
the outhouse used to be outside, way down around ...
all the way down the bed
he told me "after this,"
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 ...
"we really want you to come to school," and then
haya:ł 'a:den' hay do:ng' 'a:whił-ch'ide:ne' "hay 'a:k'iwilaw-ya:ne:dil'e:n-ding (dimixung) miningxa't'e:n' ch'ino:ya'-ne'"
and then I said, "it was him, the principal (boss of the school), that told me (to come)"
and then I went into the classroom
they didn't know that as for me, I had been studying at home
"where you go in, give him your papers, to (the person) that will be your new teacher"
and then I was in a higher class (9th grade)
and then after that they didn't laugh anymore
so I went along until I hit 11th grade
lots of drinks, sodas (summer drinks), all kinds of drinks
all of a sudden he sort of jumped in there in the backseat where I was laying down
six years passed, I had two girls
it seemed like more than six months (in the womb), that baby ...
... that (baby) he killed. And then after that, again, I had a girl [Debbie]
and then after that, after a long time ...
... six years had gone by [since our marriage], and then
he used to go around with them. Because of that, he went away from me
after that, as for me, I started having a life of my own, someone ...
a long long time ago
before the humans were walking around in this place
and then where a big mountain was standing there, he [the creator] poked a hole with his finger
where the hole comes out, and then he said, "come on out!"
and then at the very tail end, he said "come on out here!"
so he kept doing that, about five times he did that
he slammed him back in the the place where the hole is
and then after that they went around all these animals, and then coyote
haya:ł ła:n nasya', diywho' hay ch'ixolchwe sile'n hay mich'ing-ding. haya:ł xowa:-yung-xiwidilik me:lah
there were a lot of them going around, so that's why they all became fairy tales. and then some of them had stories told about them
"and then when morning comes, in the morning you will all wake up"
and so then early in the morning they started waking up consecutively. [the night before,] Coyote thought, he looked over (all the tails)
not very much fur on it
haya:ł hay ya'winta:n xoke' sile'n. hay mich'in-ding ch'ina:n xontehl-taw xoke' jahdah-ding do:-niwho:n
and then he picked it up, it became his tail, and for that reason, his tail isn't very pretty
as for him, (because he went bad), he is incarcerated out in the middle of the sea. one day ...
It was going up through the field, where my mother used to live, and then...
After we tipped over three times, my leg burned.
I rubbed my leg with grease where it was burnt.
[He said] "Shift it into another gear," and I put it in second gear.
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...
jahda: ch'ingkya:w na:d-e:-xw na:tł'a' na:ła'-q'i-ch'in' ye: no:'o:ltsil 'e'iliw haya:ł na:k'ide'iwis-te: ye: 'e'iliw haya:ł jahda:-din do: 'iwhyo' 'a:dił na'xołte: hayi-'e'n
...she's too big, it's like she leans over in the wrong way around the back [of the motorcycle], then it seems like it's going to fall over, and then I don't like to take her with me very much.