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Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ashan katka se rey kipia se itelpuchtzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Once there was a king; he had a son.
Kikuilia ne isapatos de oroj.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He bought gold shoes for him, he bought gold shoes.
Ne iseltzin kipiat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation
Ne iseltzin kipiat. Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
They had him there all alone; he began to get sick, he started to get ill.
Kilwia ne inan ma tinakan ne reynaj; kilwia ne inan: Tiut tiyawit tipashaluat nepa ka kujtan Tiut tiawit aber su timuchiwa alegrar chupi.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
His mother -- we mean the queen --, his mother said, "let's go take a walk there in the woods". "Let's go see if you won't cheer up a bit."
Ne reynaj bidaj kimati ka kichijket atender.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
The queen felt good that he attended them.
Muchi ne doctores panutiwit aber asu kipajtiat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Muchi ne doctores panutiwit aber asu kipajtiat. Tesu welitiwit tesu welitiwit.
"All the doctors have come to see if they could cure him; they haven't been able to, they haven't been able."
Yawita witzet ne nupilawantzitzin, yut mawiltiat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"My boys are going to come soon, they're going to play."
Kalikat ne yey pipiltzitzin se inmijmichintzitzin, wan ne seyuk kalika se itapajsul ne wilutzin mareño.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The three boys brought some little fish, and the other brought a nest of the mareño bird.
Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Yut anyawit. Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.
"You'll go and he'll go with you; he'll go with you to have a good time." "He's not here for you to hit him."
Ka nepa, ka nepa kitemuat se inmichintzin wan ne seyuk ne itapajsul ne wijwilutzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
There, over there they looked for some fish and the other one for a bird's nest.
Ini ja (ka) niknekiskia katka, nimawiltia.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"That's what I wanted, to play."
Ini ja nimuchiwa falta katka.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"That's what I was missing."
Ne nusapatos niu niktamuta.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"I'm going to throw my shoes away."
Kitamutak ne isapatiyas de oroj, kianki ne inan.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He threw away his golden shoes; his mother picked them up.
Tejemet tiawita, kilwia ne shuretzin: Shakan, pero te shikelkawa, cualquier rato shiwala wan ne mutelpuchtzin; ka nikan nemit ne iamigitus pal mawiltia.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"We're going now", said the old man; "you go too, but don't forget, come anytime with your son; here are his friends to play with".
Ne piltzintzin kenemej takata, yaja nakak de rey.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
The little boy, since now he was a man, became the king, he became king.
Ikuka kielnamik ne iamigitus kilwia; Naj, kilwia, na nikelnamiki ne nuamigitus ka tiyajket tipashaluat ka nepa ka orillas ka itejtenpan ne lagoj.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Then he remembered his friends; he said, "I", he said, "I remember my friends, how we went to walk there on the shores of the lake".
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ashan katka se takat munamiktij.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Once there was a man who got married.
Tesu kimati katka ka ne isiwaw se brujaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
He didn't know that his wife was a witch.
Yaja kitajtan se konsejoj wan kimakaket, kimakat se konsejoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He asked for advice and it was given to him, they gave him advice.
Uk kinutzki, mutamutak ne tzuntekumat, musaluj pak ikechkuyu.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
When he spoke to her the skull throw itself and stuck onto his neck.
Ta kikwa ne takat kishtilia, kishtilia; muchi kishtilia, ta kineki kikwa, muchi kishtilia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Whatever the man ate she took away from him, she took it away, she took everything, whatever he wanted to eat she took away from him.
Sepa ne tzuntekumat tesu kineki naka ten tiupan, tesu kineki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The head did not want to stay outside in front of the church, she didn't want to.
Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij. Yajki ka dentroj ne takatzin.
The man put his jacket down for her; there he left her; the man went inside.
Yajki ka dentroj ne takatzin.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij. Yajki ka dentroj ne takatzin.
The man put his jacket down for her; there he left her; the man went inside.
Naja tesu nikmati, peroj nechilwijket ka nusiwaw brujaj, ma niktalij kwidado.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
"I don't know, but they told me my wife is a witch, that I should be careful."
Teroj ne kayej ne pejpelumet wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa, kuyuchukat, kuyuchukat ne pelumet.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"All along the stree the dogs howl 'wawawawawawawawawawa', the dogs howl."
Ka kanaj kalmutijtiwit se masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Who knows from where a deer was startled.
Kabal ne panuk tan ne tzaput; mutamuta ne tzuntekumat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
It went by right there under the zapote tree; the head threw itself.
Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.
"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).
Ne masat mas mutajtamuta.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
The deer took off jumping.
Mikik ne masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Pa! Wetzki. Tzi-li-li-li-li! Mikik ne masat.
"Pa!" -- it fell -- it trembled and trembled -- the deer died.
Kinekit kikwat ne nakat, ne ijyak nakat pal ne masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa, masat, nakat
Translation
They wanted to eat the meat, the stinking meat of the deer.
Al fin de tanto, wakik ne masat, wan yaja, ne tzuntekumat, yawia miki ka iseltzin tik ne kebrada.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Finally the deer dried up and she, the skull, was going to die all alone there in the canyon.
Kan ne miktuk, waltakatki se tekumat, waltakatki se tekumat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Mikik. Kan ne miktuk, waltakatki se tekumat, waltakatki se tekumat.
She died; where she had died a groud tree sprouted.
Yawi ne Tantepuslamat, ja yaja inan, ne brujaj Tantepuslamat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The witch (the "iron-toothed-old-woman") came. It's she who is her mother, the witch "iron-toothed-old-woman".
Yajki ya; kimatki kan nemi ne isiwapiltzin.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She went. She knew where her daughter was.
Kimatki ne Tantepuslamat, witz pal yawi kita.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The iron-toothed-old-woman sensed it; she came to go see it.
Sel pipiltzitzin ne iishyu ne tekumat; sel pipiltzitzin.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Yajki kita ne lamajtzin. Sel pipiltzitzin ne iishyu ne tekumat; sel pipiltzitzin.
The old woman went to see; the seeds of the gourd were just little boys, they were just little boys.
Kilwiat inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.
"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.
Kilwiat tik kastiaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.
"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.
Kilwiat ne inlama: Nanita, musta tiyut tiawit titapewiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Kilwiat ne inlama: Nanita, musta tiyut tiawit titapewiat. Kilwiat: Shakan, nuishwiuwan! Kilwia.
They said to their grandmother, "gramma, tomorrow we are going to go hunt", they tell her. "Go ahead, my grandchildren", she said.
Kilwiat: Shakan, nuishwiuwan!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Kilwiat ne inlama: Nanita, musta tiyut tiawit titapewiat. Kilwiat: Shakan, nuishwiuwan! Kilwia.
They said to their grandmother, "gramma, tomorrow we are going to go hunt", they tell her. "Go ahead, my grandchildren", she said.
Kalmiktijket se masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Yajket. Kalmiktijket se masat.
They went; they killed a deer.
Kikwat ne takwal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Kikwat ne takwal. Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.
They ate the food, they ate the food that they went to catch.
Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Kikwat ne takwal. Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.
They ate the food, they ate the food that they went to catch.
Pejki kalnutza ne ienamorado pal sentakwat, pal sentakwat wan ne ienamorado.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She began to call her lover so they could eat together, so she could eat together with her lover.
Ne iishwiuwan teya su kinmaka ne takwal, se maya ne ienamorado sentakwat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She no longer gave the food to her grandchildren; she only ate together with her lover.
Kenemej nemi ne Nanawatzin, ne chimpe Nanawatzin, ya kita ta kichiwa ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.
Kinilwia ne iermanujwan: Nulama mitzinchiwa nemi joder; Tesu antakwat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He told his brothers, "my grandmother is screwing you; you're not eating".
Kabal mitzinmajmawaltia ne anmutejtenshipal pal muchiwat saboriar.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"She just smears grease on your lips so they will taste."
Kilwiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.
"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.
Kilwiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.
"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.
Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal. Pwes shinechwikakan.
The Nanahuatzin, the youngest child, said to them, "take me; my grandmother's fellow, he's the one who eats the food; so take me!".
Yuwan kichiwat ne sanjo.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: chiwa
Translation
Yuwan kichiwat ne sanjo. Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.
"Go make a trench; go sharpen güiscoyols (thorny palms) so he'll stay there, stay there, he's going to die."
Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Yuwan kichiwat ne sanjo. Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.
"Go make a trench; go sharpen güiscoyols (thorny palms) so he'll stay there, stay there, he's going to die."
Tiut tikwikat ne tuermanitoj, lama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"We're going to take our little brother, gramdmother."
Uk yu witz ne tukujkul wan yu kimati ne. parran! pa! yu temu.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
"Now our 'bogeyman' is going to come there and he's going to feel the "parran", "pa", he's going to fall."
Tiut tikshipewat, inaket.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Let's skin him", they said.
Kishipejket, kipakat, kiwikaket chan ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
They skinned him, washed him, and took him to their grandmother's.
Shikida nanita!, kilwiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.
"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.
Talikat masat, wan sanka.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.
"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.
Tesu ja masat, ne inakayu tukujkul, ne idamuj ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
That was not a deer; it was the meat of their 'bogeyman', of their grandmother's fellow.
Pwes eje, ej nupilawantzitzin, niu nikmana, tiut titakwat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: takwa
Translation
"Well yes, yes, my children, I'm going to cook it, we're going to eat."
Tesu, tesu ja masat, sino ne idamuj ne inlama, ja yaja kimiktijket, wan kiwikaket ne nakat pal kikwa ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat, nakat
Translation
No, that was not deer, but rather their grandmother's fellow. It was him that they killed, and they took the meat so that their grandmother would eat it.
Me duele la cabeza, yu estoy rendido, kilwiat tik kastiaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ay nanita! Me duele la cabeza, yu estoy rendido, kilwiat tik kastiaj.
"Oh gramma, my head aches, I'm exhausted", they say in Spanish.
Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: Nawat
Translation
Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!
"Sleep now!", she said in Pipil, "go to sleep!".
Pejki ne Tantepuslamat kikwa ne nakat, wan tami kilwijket: Ken tikmatki ne nakat, lama?
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nakat
Translation
The iron-toothed-old-woman began to eat the meat. Afterwards they said, "how did you find the meat, grandmother?".
Nikmati ka mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
Ja! Nikmati ka mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj. Ne chimpe mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj.
"Ha, I know that the youngest child has advised you, he has advised you."
Ne chimpe mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ja! Nikmati ka mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj. Ne chimpe mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj.
"Ha, I know that the youngest child has advised you, he has advised you."
Kineki kimiktia katka.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She was wanting to kill him.
Ka te panu ne iashish nepa, tiut tikmiktiat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Whoever does not get his/her piss there we are going to kill."
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Na nikelnamiki tay nechilwij nunoyaj wan nu tatanoy.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: tatanoy
Translation
I remember what my grandmother and my grandfather told me.
Keman inat yejemet ka yawi panu urakan, segun yejemet inat ka tik ne ejekat panu ne witzet hombres wan siwatket al aire con tal de que witzet kwikat elut pal yejemet kiwikat, kunij ne mijmil nakak bien quebrado, bien aplastado, varias mazorcas desfigurado en un aspecto de como buba, yajane mazorcas kwikat ne Chiltiupanekos sekun nutatanoy wan nu noyaj kichiwket kontar.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ejekat, tatanoy, siwat
Translation
When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.
Pero en ese caso siyujti nemi se takat intelijentej, wan muchiwki proponer ke era de mas tay witzet kichiwat nin tik tutechan.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: chiwa, takat
Translation
But in this case, once there was a smart man who held that what they came to do in our town was too much.
Kunij yaja kichiwki se trampaj, tik ne trampaj welik kikutamima se siwapil como de diesiocho años, peroj ne siwapil al mumentuj ke wetzki talchi inmediatamente mukwepki se chumpipi.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
So he made a trap. In the trap he was able to catch a girl of about eighteen. But at the moment she fell to the ground, immediately the girl changed into a turkey.
Kunij ne takat ke kikutamin kitzki ne chumpipi kwika ka ichan, inmediatamente kichiwki ordinar iswaw ma kimikti ne chumpipi pal kikwat, entonces ne isiwaw kimiktij ne chumpipi, kichiwki desplumar wan kichiwki ne komidaj, wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: kwa, takat
Translation
Then the man who caught and grabbed the turkey took it to his house. Immediately he ordered his wife to kill the turkey so they could eat it. So his wife killed the turkey, plucked it, and made the food, and they ate it.
Pero, tay yejemet muchiwket afijar ka ne iujumiyu ne chumpipi, ne plumas te kikwaj pelu, entonces nakak pensativo muchi ne jwamilia tayika te kikwaj pelu ne ujumit ni ke ne plumaj.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
But what they noticed was that the dog did not eat the turkey's bones and feathers. Then the whole family was left puzzled because the dog wouldn't eat the bones nor the feathers.
A los tres dias ka panutuk ne urakan wan kikwajtiwit ne chumpipi. walajket ume takamet wan se siwat kitemuat, kunij ajsiket ichan ne takat kaj kikutaminki por que yejemet poco mas o menos kimatiata katka kaj kikutamin.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: siwat, takat
Translation
On the third day after the storm had passed and they had eaten the turkey, there came two men and a woman to look for it. They arrived at the house of the man who had caught it because they more or less already knew who had caught it.
kunij ne takat yajki kilwitia.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Then the man went to show them.
Kunij yemet (yejemet) kianket ne wesuj kichiwket se puniuj wan kitajtanket se bateya wan se buen puniuj at wan se carreton ileraj kiminket ka ikajku.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: at
Translation
Then they picked up the bones, made a pile, and asked for a trough and a lot of water and a spool of thread, and they throw it into the air.
Al ratito tikwini,kan (kwak)(keman) tikwinik yaja kita ka maya kimak bueltaj en la buelta ke kimaka muciwket elevar wan muchiwket desaparecer.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.
Kienej (kiane) kwikaket ne siwapil por ke ne takat en el momento ke kitak ne kichiwket la prueba kitak perfectamente ka se siwapil hermosa kiski tik ne wesuj wan ne plumaj.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation
Actually, they took the girl because at the moment the man saw that they tried this, he saw perfectly (well) that a beautiful girl came out of the bones and feathers.
Yajika neurakaneros witzet de Chiltiupan, witzet kwikat elut pal kikwa, pero kunij muchiwket jregar por ke kimiktijket se siwapil wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
So, the "hurricaners" in reality come from Chilteopan; they come to take ears of corn to eat. But they were screwed up, because they killed the girl and ate her.
Kienej nechiwtuk kontar nutatanoy wan nunoyaj, wan esta fecha siempre panu urakan pero tejemet teya keman tikitaket su walkuwetzi se, yajiika an nikchiwa kontar nuamikuj pal kwika como recuerdo ini kwentuj. <arco>
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: tatanoy
Translation
That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
niyaw niktajtani tay nikwa, por ke yejemet kipiat deber nechmakat an ka nimayana.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation
I'm going to ask them for something to eat, because they have to give it to me now that I'm hungry.
Kunij kikwij ikalabus (ikalkabus) wan imataw yawi ka né Arkuj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then he grabbed his machete and his net-bag, and went there to the arch.
Al ratito kisa ne siwat.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: siwat
Translation
In a little while the woman came out.
Kunij shalkwi ukseyuk tortaj; Naj niktalia tik numataw pal nikwa musta.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
"Then bring me some more sandwiches; I'll put them in my bag to eat tomorrow."
Kunij ne inan kalaki, mientras ne inan kalaki kalwika mas pan, yaja pejki kikwa ne tortaj kimakatuk inan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then his mother went inside. While his mother was going in to bring more bread, he began to eat the sandwich his mother had given him.
Kalwika inan uk nawi pan onbron, kitaij tik imataw wan walaj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.
Desde luego ka nin tik numataw ojonbron plastas pal toroj witz, yaja nikwaj tesu pan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Therefore, here in my bag are big cowpies; that's what I ate, not bread.
Pero keman niyaw nimukwepa niyawi niyaw nikajwa ne nunan tayika yaja nechmakatuk.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
But when I go back there, I'm going to chew out my mother for what she has given me.
Yejemet ka kipiat tumin, yajika ne yajket kimakat fin tik Arkuj, wan naj te nechajkawilijket tumin, maya pobresaj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation
They are the ones who have money. That's why they went there to end up in the arch. And they didn't leave me money, just poverty.
Yaj propio ne chulet nechiwtuk kontar, yaja itukay Lorenso López kipiatuya ume ipilawan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation
The old man himself has told me this. His name was Lorenzo López. He had two sons.
Kienej kilwia katka ne ipilawan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
This is what he told them.
Tatawilua wan ne espejuj, pero né tesu yaja idestino te keman kimiktij.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
He shined with his mirror, but that was not to be his fate; he never killed him.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat".
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: tatanoy
Translation
Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat". Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.
My friend likes me to tell him stories about the things that have taken place in my town. Now I'm going to tell him something that my grandfather told me. He told me that in our town unfortunately one can be frightened. There's a creature they call the "skull". So, my grandfather advised me not to walk at night because they terrify you.
Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: tatanoy
Translation
Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat". Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.
My friend likes me to tell him stories about the things that have taken place in my town. Now I'm going to tell him something that my grandfather told me. He told me that in our town unfortunately one can be frightened. There's a creature they call the "skull". So, my grandfather advised me not to walk at night because they terrify you.
Keman yaja yawi katka derechoj ne kayej, yaj kiski iishpan Siwanawal.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
When he was going down the street the Siguanaba (a siren-like supernatural being in the form of a woman) came out in front of him.
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