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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  1. Kue wo-news-leg 'ee mok'w 'wah-pew.
    The moon had no wife.
     
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  2. Keech 'o serh-ker-mery.
    He was lonely.
     
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  3. 'O ske-wok 'wah-pew kee 'wo-'oh.
    He wanted a wife for himself.
     
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  4. Says, Kep-'el 'o 'oo-le'm' nue-mee mer-ger-mery we'-yo-no'.
    (He) says, At Kep'el there are very beautiful girls.
     
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  5. Tue' wee-'eeet 'o so sloy-chok'w.
    Then he went down there.
     
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  6. 'We-nahs-che-wen 'o hlom' koo-ra'.
    In the evening, he grabbed one (of the women)
     
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  7. Noo kem 'e-mee wo ske-wok, kem 'o no-wo-ne'm.
    He didn't like her either, again he brought her.
     
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  8. Kem ko-leen 'o hlo'm.
    Again he took another one.
     
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  9. Kem 'o kwom-hle'n.
    He returned her too.
     
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  10. Tue' kem ko-leen 'ee nue hlom', keech 'o mok'w kue we'-yo-no'.
    Again he went to take another, but there were no girls left.
     
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  11. Nee-keech-yue keech ma hlee', kem 'e-mee wo ske-wok, kwe-see 'o ne-wom' 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 rue-ro'w.
    She sang.
     
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  14. 'Esee 'o her-geekw-sur'wer'y.
    And she smiled.
     
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  15. Mos nue-mee noo-re'w, mos nue-mee noo-re'w.
    She was not very beautiful, she was not very beautiful.
     
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  16. 'O ge'm, Tue' wee-'eeet kee ne-ge-mek'.
    He said, I'll bring that one.
     
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  17. Kwe-see 'o ne-gem' kue we'-yon.
    And he brought the girl.
     
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  18. Kwe-see paa' pey-yo-wok'w kue ko'l 'woh kue we'-yon.
    No, that girl worked.
     
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  19. 'O sloyhl-ke-tom' kue 'o'-lehl, koy-poh keech he-wehl 'o pew.
    And she swept the house, in the morning she got up and cooked.
     
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  20. Nue-meech-yue soo ko'l hoh.
    She worked in every way.
     
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  21. 'Esee 'ee-ko'l 'wahkw-sek', 'ee-ko'l 'wahkw-sek'.
    She was always laughing.
     
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  22. Tue' wee-'eeet, 'o ge'm, weet keet 'nah-pew.
    That one, he said, she will be my wife.
     
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  23. Tue' weet 'o kooych-kwo'm.
    He bought her.
     
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  24. 'Ema kooych-kwo'm kue 'uep-sech 'o nahch-pue'm kue 'we-cheeek. Kooych-kwo'm kwe-see kue we'-yon, kwe-see kue lo-cho'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' weesh-tue' 'wah-pew wo-news-leg.
    And that one was Moon's wife.
     
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  26. Tue' 'o 'oo-le'm kue 'uueks, keech 'o 'oo-le'm kue 'uuek-soh.
    And they had children, they had children.
     
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  27. Tue' wee-'eeet kue hoo-gech weesh-tue' 'uuek-soh.
    The stars are their kids.
     
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  28. Tue' mo-cho keech 'o saa-we-lee'm, kee-puen 'o saa-we-lee'm, eet says weet 'o pel, re-pee-cho'm kue 'uuek-soh.
    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 te-to-lo-hlehl, 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 'uuek-soh re-pee-cho'm te-to-lo-hle'm.
    She spanks her children and they cry.
     
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  31. And kue kee-shen mos 'o nue-mee saa-we-lee'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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