Georgiana Trull

Moon and His Wife (October 21, 2003)

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Text identifier: GT2
Speaker: Georgiana Trull
Primary documentation: Alysoun Quinby
Project transcription: Erik Hans Maier

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English translation:  

  1. Kue wonewsleg 'ee mok'w 'w-ahpew.
    The moon had no wife.
     
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  2. Keech 'o serhkermery.
    He was lonely.
     
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  3. 'O skewok 'w-ahpew kee 'wo-'oh.
    He wanted a wife for himself.
     
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  4. Says, Kep'el 'o 'oole'm' nuemee mergermery we'yono'.
    (He) says, At Kep'el there are very beautiful girls.
     
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  5. Tue' wee'eeet 'o so sloychok'w.
    Then he went down there.
     
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  6. 'We-nahschewen 'o hlom' koora'.
    In the evening, he grabbed one (of the women)
     
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  7. Noo kem 'emee wo skewok, kem 'o nowone'm.
    He didn't like her either, again he brought her.
     
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  8. Kem koleen 'o hlo'm.
    Again he took another one.
     
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  9. Kem 'o kwomhle'n.
    He returned her too.
     
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  10. Tue' kem koleen 'ee nue hlom', keech 'o mok'w kue we'yono'.
    Again he went to take another, but there were no girls left.
     
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  11. Neekeechyue keech ma hlee', kem 'emee wo skewok, kwesee 'o newom' we'yon.
    He took them all but didn't like them, and then he saw a girl.
     
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  12. Kue 'o ket'ue'l weet 'o chyuuek'we'n.
    She was sitting in the pond.
     
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  13. 'O ruero'w.
    She sang.
     
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  14. 'Esee 'o hergeekwsur'wer'y.
    And she smiled.
     
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  15. Mos nuemee noore'w, mos nuemee noore'w.
    She was not very beautiful, she was not very beautiful.
     
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  16. 'O ge'm, Tue' wee'eeet kee negemek'.
    He said, I'll bring that one.
     
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  17. Kwesee 'o negem' kue we'yon.
    And he brought the girl.
     
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  18. Kwesee paa' peyowok'w kue ko'l 'w-oh kue we'yon.
    No, that girl worked.
     
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  19. 'O sloyhlketom' kue 'o'lehl, koypoh keech hewehl 'o pew.
    And she swept the house, in the morning she got up and cooked.
     
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  20. Nuemeechyue soo ko'l hoh.
    She worked in every way.
     
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  21. 'Esee 'eeko'l 'w-ahkwsek', 'eeko'l 'w-ahkwsek'.
    She was always laughing.
     
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  22. Tue' wee'eeet, 'o ge'm, weet keet 'n-ahpew.
    That one, he said, she will be my wife.
     
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  23. Tue' weet 'o kooychkwo'm.
    He bought her.
     
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  24. 'Ema kooychkwo'm kue 'ue-psech 'o nahchpue'm kue 'we-cheeek. Kooychkwo'm kwesee kue we'yon, kwesee kue locho'm wee'.
    He bought her, he gave her father the money. He bought her, and that girl was the toad.
     
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  25. Tue' weeshtue' 'w-ahpew wonewsleg.
    And that one was Moon's wife.
     
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  26. Tue' 'o 'oole'm kue '-uueks, keech 'o 'oole'm kue '-uueksoh.
    And they had children, they had children.
     
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  27. Tue' wee'eeet kue hoogech weeshtue' '-uueksoh.
    The stars are their kids.
     
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  28. Tue' mocho keech 'o saawelee'm, keepuen 'o saawelee'm, eet says weet 'o pel, repeecho'm kue '-uueksoh.
    If they get cold, in winter they got cold, it says they fight, she spanks her kids.
     
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  29. Tue' weet 'o tetolohlehl, tue' weet keech 'o ten, tue' weet tee'n mehl 'we-ten.
    They cry and it rains, that's why it rains.
     
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  30. Kue '-uueksoh repeecho'm tetolohle'm.
    She spanks her children and they cry.
     
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  31. And kue keeshen mos 'o nuemee saawelee'm.
    And in the summer they weren't cold.
     
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  32. Tue' weet 'em hlee ten.
    So it doesn't rain.
     
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