Violet Super: Violet Working (2004)

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[1]

manâa

naa

mít

káru

nîinamich

itíhaan

áhup

nu-kyâa-ti

pa-nani-típa

xákaan

áhup

nú-kpaak-ti

maybe

1sg.

near.past

also

little

always

wood

1pl(>3)-go.gather-DUR

the-1sPOSS-brother

both

wood

1pl(>3)-chop-DUR

Well, also when I was little, we were always gathering wood, my brother and I, we were chopping wood.

[2]	nu-vuxich-shúr-oo	nu-vuxich-shiipriv	vuxich[ar]	bucksaw	muuk	nu-vuxich-vúxich
	1pl(>3)-saw-off-PL.ACT	1pl(>3)-saw-up	saw		with.(by.means.of)	1pl(>3)-saw-saw

We sawed it down– [correction] sawed it up, we sawed it up with a saw– with a bucksaw.

[3]	Kúkuum
	again

Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees.

[4]	ta-'ítam	sáruk	ta-nu-thyúru-fak
	PERF-earlier.today	downhill	PERF-1pl(>3)-drag-from.uphill

Then we dragged them downhill.

[5]	sâam	xás	ta-nu-p-vupákpak
	little.downhill	then	PERF-1pl(>3)-ITER-cut.up

Downhill, then we split them.

[6]	kúkuum	vúra	ta-nu-p-ipêer	itíhaan	vaa	vúra	áhup	nu-kyâa-ti
	again	Intensive	PERF-1pl(>3)-ITER-say.to	always	that	Intensive	wood	1pl(>3)-make-DUR

Again we told each other, “We’re always gathering wood.”

[7]	ayu’âach	púfaat	pa-'ávansa	iináak	pa-nini-'ákah	uum	támit	u-'ív-at
	it.was.because	nothing	the-man	placename	the-1sPOSS-father	3.SG	already.in.the.past	3s(>3)-die-PAST

It was because there was no man in the house, my father had died.

[8]	víri	vaa	kumá'ii	pa-'itíhaan	nuu	xás	nu-kyáviichvu-ti	aa	íshaha	káru	nú-ktaam-ti
	so	that	because.of	NOMZ-always	we	then	1pl(>3)-work-DUR		water	also	1pl(>3)-hold.in.hand-DUR

That’s why we always had to work then ah–we also carried water.

[9]	ishkêesh-ak	ta-nu-tárivrip	máruk	ta-nu-kvírip-raa
	river-Locative	PERF-1pl(>3)-bail.water	uphill	PERF-1pl(>3)-run-here

We dipped it up at the river (for laundry), we ran uphill.

[10]	mama	had	three	tubs	ta-nu	axyár	ta-nú-kyav	p-oo-pithxáh-eesh
					PERF-1pl(>3)	full	PERF-1pl(>3)-make	NOMZ-3s(>3)-wash-FUT

Mama had three tubs, we- we filled them, when she was going to do the wash.

[11]	vúra	itíhaan	pa-nu-kyáviichvu-ti
	Intensive	always	NOMZ-1pl(>3)-work-DUR

We were always working.

[12]	áhup	káru	nu-'akaa-fúruk-vu-ti
	wood	also	1pl(>3)-carry.(plural).objects-indoors-PL.ACT-DUR

We were also carrying wood into the house in our arms.