Julia Starritt: "Swearing" (1957)

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[1]	pa'áraar	uum	pupítihara	pamú'arama	múthvuy	patu'ívahaak
	the.Indian	3.SG	he.doesn't.say	his.child	his.name	when.he.dies

The Indian did not say his child's name when it died.

[2]	káru	vúra	koovúra	pamu'áraaras	tá	kun'ívahaak	pupítihara	mukun'íthvuy
	also	Intensive	all	when.his.relatives	PERF	when.they.die	he.doesn't.say	their.names

And when any of his relatives died, he did not say their names.

[3]	vaa	uum	kunipíti	pitaxyárih
	that	3.SG	they.say	swearing

That, they said, was "swearing."

[4]	xás	hâari	tá	kunipíthvuuymath	míta	pakêemish	múthvuy
	then	sometime	PERF	they.name.him.again	near.past	the.deceased.person	his.name

Sometimes they name someone again with the name of the deceased.

[5]	víriva	kári	uum	tá	kunipíti	peethvuy	vúra	puhúunhara
	so	then	3.SG	PERF	they.say	the.name	Intensive	not.harmful

Then they could still say the name, and no harm was done.

[6]	xás	hâari	vúra	ára	puxútihara	víri	vúra	tóo	piip	peethvuy
	then	sometime	Intensive	person	he.isn't.thinking	so	Intensive	he	say	the.name

Sometimes a person just wasn't thinking, so he said the name.

[7]	púyava	tá	kunixvíphuunish	xás	tá	kunváasanha
	so	PERF	they.get.angry.at.him	then	PERF	they.become.enemies

Then they got angry at him and became his enemies.

[8]	púyava	uum	fâat	tu'ûukar
	and.so.	3.SG	what	he.pays

Then he paid something.

[9]	xás	tá	kunipchúphuunish
	then	PERF	they.speak.to.him.again

Then they spoke to him again.

[10]	hâari	itrôop	tu'ûukar	káru	hâari	vúra	itráhyar
	sometime	five	he.pays	also	sometime	Intensive	ten

Sometimes he paid five dollars and sometimes ten.

[11]	xás	hâari	vúra	uum	pa'áraar	pahúuntahaak	ára	vúra	tupitaxyárih
	then	sometime	Intensive	3.SG	the.person	when.peculiar	person	Intensive	he.swears

Sometimes when a person was peculiar, he "swore" (on purpose).

[12]

xás

patá

kunípeerahaak

fâat

iyúrish

xás

patu'ûurihaak

púyava

uum

hâari

ára

vaa

kúth

tóo

tháaniv

then

when

when.they.tell.him

what

pay

then

when.he.refuses

so

3.SG

sometime

person

so

because.of

PERF

sit

When they told him to pay something and he refused, then sometimes a person was killed because of it.

[13]	íkiich	káru	vúra	mutípa	káru	muxúkam	káru	vúra	akâay	vúra	pamu'áraar
	maybe	also	Intensive	his.brother	also	his.mother's.brother	also	Intensive	who	Intensive	his.relative

Maybe too it would be his brother or his uncle or any relative of his.

[14]	vaa	uum	ararákuupha
	that	3.SG	Indian.law

That was Indian law.