Chester Pepper: "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (1957)

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[1]	vaa	u-kúphaa-nik	á 'iknêechhan
	so	3s(>3)-do-ANC	falcon

Duck Hawk did this.

[2]	ôok	pa-mu-hrôoha	ú-krii
	here	the-3sPOSS-wife	3s(>3)-live

His wife lived here.

[3]	xás	tíshraam	u-fmaanahîichva
	then	valley	3s(>3)-get.mistress

And he had a mistress in Scott Valley.

[4]	t-u-'ípak
	PERF-3s(>3)-come.back

He came back (from Scott Valley).

[5]	tishravará'iivreer	yanéekva	pa-mu-'îin	u-thivnúru-tih
	Etna.Mountain	visible	the-3sPOSS-falls	3s(>3)-roar-DUR

On Etna Mountain he heard his falls thundering (at Katimin).

[6]	kúkuum	t-óo	pvâaram
	again	PERF-3s(>3)	go.back

He was going home again.

[7]	yítha	mú-'arama	ú-krii	káru	mu-hrôoha
	one	3sPOSS-child	3s(>3)-live	also	3sPOSS-wife

His one child and his wife lived there.

[8]	ifuchtîimich	p-oo-p-itvâavnuk-anik	yánava	pura fátaak
	last.time	NOMZ-3s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over-ANC	visible	nowhere

The last time he looked over, (the falls) were nowhere to be seen.

[9]	pu-thivnúru-tih-ara	pa-mu-'íin
	NEG-roar-DUR-NEG	the-3sPOSS-falls

His falls weren't thundering.

[10]	xás	u-xú-tih	tá	na-tayvárarimka	pa-nani-'íin
	then	3s(>3)-think-DUR	PERF	2s/3s>1s-spoil.(for)	the-1sPOSS-falls

And he thought, "She's spoiled my falls."

[11]	kári	xás	u-pvâaram
	then	then	3s(>3)-go.back

So he went home.

[12]	ôok	u-'ipak
	here	3s(>3)-come.back

He returned here.

[13]	xás	aseeshtákak	p-oo-p-itvâavnuk	mâam	páykuuk	u-mah	tá	kun-p-ífukraa	mú-'arama	xákaan
	then	placename	NOMZ-3s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over	uphill	over.there	3s(>3)-see	PERF	3pl(>3s)-ITER-climb.uphill.(plural)	3sPOSS-child	both

And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.

[14]	xás	vaa	vúra	káan	u-pathakhíish
	then	so	Intensive	there	3s(>3)-kneel.down

So he knelt down there.

[15]	xás	ta'ítam	u-kúniihka	pa-mu-hrôoha
	then	so	3s(>3)-shoot.at	the-3sPOSS-wife

And he shot his wife.

[16]	púyava	káan	u-tákniihkurih
	you.see	there	3s(>3)-roll.into.hollow

She rolled in (to a hollow) there.

[17]	u-tákniihvarayva
	3s(>3)-roll.around

She rolled around.

[18]	víri-va	kumá'ii	kun-ípeen-ti	xúux	mu-krivruh-vá-nam-ich
	so-so	because.of	3pl(>3s)-say.to-DUR	placename	3sPOSS-roll-PL.ACT-place-DIM

For that reason they call it "xuux's little rolling-place."

(Bright: "Duck Hawk's wife is here called xuux; this name designates an extinct and possibly only legendary animal, identified by some informants with the grizzly bear and by others with the African lion.")