Florence Shaughnessy

Sentences (LA138-030) (1980)

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Text identifier: LA138-030
Speaker: Florence Shaughnessy
Primary documentation: Paul Proulx
Project transcription: Alysoun Quinby, Andrew Garrett
Audio source: LA138-030

Nee-kee ho-'oh-ke-mee'.
So it's getting dark.

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Ko-lo woych-ke-nekw.
It looks like they (clouds) are floating by.

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Keech woych-ke-nekw.
They (clouds) are floating by.

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Yok-mo-kee ho t'la.
It was raining big drops all around.

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Keech t'la't'-la'.
It's raining (the first big drops).

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Keech t'lah-ko'l.
It's spattering.

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Noohl 'o sahk-sah.
Then the hail comes.

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'Emkee, mo-cho keech 'o wey 'we-sahk-sah, noohl 'o ten-pe-we'hl, kue wee' kem 'o sahk-sah, 'o-wook koy kwe-see keech 'o ro'r.
Then, when the hail stops, then it rains, then it hails again, and then early in the morning it turns to snow.

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Ko-lo keech t'laa-mok's k'ee 'wes-'o-nah.
It's like the sky is leaking.

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Keech hoo-me'g kue ro-reer ho 'we-laa-yek'.
S/he gets dizzy passing through the snow.

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Kee-tee me-ge-nek, cho' ko-ma hoh-kue-me'm k'e'-yoh.
We're going to freeze, gather a lot of wood.

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Kee-tee slo-yo-wo'n.
The frost is going to come.

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Kue mehl hehl-kue keech 'ue ne-kue' kue ne-puy, noohl 'o mey-kwe-le'-we'y, ko-lo 'o mey-kwe-le'-we'y k'ee 'wes-'o-nah.
The salmon was taken ashore, then it cries, it looks like the sky is crying (because of that fine mist that came over everyone on that hill as they prayed).

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Nue-mee sku'y soo lehl-ke-moy.
There is a very fine mist.

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Kues roh-pee'hl?
Which way are the clouds moving?

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