Abner's mother: "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (1930)

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[1]	uknîi
	once.upon.a.time

uknîi.

[2]	ataháriva	kun-'áraarahi-tih-anik
	always	3pl(>3s)-live.(pl.)-DUR-ANC

They were living [there].

[3]	chavúra	pâanpay	pa-mu-'ávan	húukava	u-'uum
	finally	after.while	do-3sPOSS-husband	to.somewhere	3s(>3)-arrive

Then later on her [Crow Woman's] husband went off somewhere.

[4]	xás	vúra	vaa	u-krii	u-krûuntih
	then	Intensive	so	3s(>3)-live	3s(>3)-wait.for

She was staying waiting for him.

[5]	pu-'áapúnmu-ti-hara	hôoy	vaa	p-oo-vȃaram-oo-tih
	NEG-know-DUR-NEG	where	so	NOMZ-3s(>3)-go-HAB-DUR

She did not know where he kept going all the time.

[6]	xas	chími	axmáy	u-'ípak
	then	soon	suddenly	3s(>3)-come.back

Then after a while he came back.

[7]	xas	uum	vúra	hitíhaan	kuma-súpaa	p-oo-pȋiriihi-ti	pa-mu-'ávan	pa-xuun
	then	3.SG	Intensive	always	3sPOSS-day	NOMZ-3s(>3)-save-DUR	the-3sPOSS-husband	the-acorn.soup

She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man.

(The verb root pîiriihi, which Harrington translates as "to save food for someone", is not to our knowledge attested elsewhere. )

[8]	chími	axmáy	u-'ípak
	soon	suddenly	3s(>3)-come.back

Then he came back.

[9]	kári	xas	u-'êe	pa-xuun
	then	then	3s(>3)-give	the-acorn.soup

And she gave him the acorn soup.

[10]	yéehe	amakeem-'íshara
	interjection	bad.tasting-extremely

“Oh, it does not taste good,” (he said).

[11]	xâat
	rotten

It is rotten.

[12]	uxraháthkaay
	sour

It is sour."

[13]	kári	xas	u-piip	“ûunuhich	t-u-'íithra	pa-xuun
	then	then	3s(>3)-say	long.time	PERF-3s(>3)-lie.(liquid)	the-acorn.soup

Then (the woman) said: “For a long time it was in there [in a basket cup], the acorn soup.

[14]	ayu'âach	u-xaat.”
	it.was.because	3s(>3)-rot

Of course it is rotten.”

[15]	xas	u-pakurihva
	then	3s(>3)-sing.songs

Then she sang:

[16]	ayu'âach	u-xaat	ûunuhich	t-u-'íithra
	it.was.because	3s(>3)-rot	long.time	PERF-3s(>3)-lie.(liquid)

“Of course it is rotten, it has been in there a long time.”

[17]	hínupa	uum	u-'iimníhvu-tih
	surprise	3.SG	3s(>3)-have.love.affair-DUR

[Then the woman said] “He was in love [was staying away with a girl].”

[18]	kupánakanakana
	the.end

kupánakanakana.

[19]	ánaach	u-kúpha-anik
	crow	3s(>3)-do-ANC

Crow did that.

[20]	chéemyaach	ík	vúra	ishyâat	i-mshîinaa-vish
	quickly	must	Intensive	king.salmon	2s(>3)-shine.this.way.upriver-FUT

Shine early, Spring Salmon, hither up river.