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Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Pwes yajket kiwikak.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
So the went; she took him.
Kilwia: Shikalaki Señora, shikalaki, kilwia.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kalaki
Translation
Ne nemi ne shuretzin. Kilwia: Shikalaki Señora, shikalaki, kilwia.
There there was an old man; he said, "come in, Señora, come in".
Jaika (Yajika) ja (ka) tesu pajti.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
"So, he doesn't get better."
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.
Kilwia ne inan: Shikida, shikida, nalwika se nuwilutzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: alwika
Translation
He said to his mother, "look, look, I brought a little bird".
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 · See in the dictionary: nikan
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".
Jaika ja nimitzinnutza.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
"That's why I called you."
Ashta nikan ajsik ne tukasoj.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
That's how far our story goes.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ashan nechilwia ne palej asu nikpia se nufinkita, ma niyu iwan, wan ne chijchiltik tzaput ma kikwa ne ujuksik, wan tami ma kimaka wan ne chijchikajtuk pal nikmiktia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."
Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.
"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).
Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!
"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."
Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!
"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."
Aj, nusiwapiltzin, nikan nemi ne muchichiwal!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
"Oh, my daughter, here is your gourd."
Kitek, kitek, wan kiwikak ka ichan.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She cut it off, she cut it and took it home.
Kabal tapanik ka tajku tayua, ma tikinakan ne "medianoche", tikaki tajku tayua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kaki
Translation
Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.
Yajki kene de regreso kalikak se iajamakaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
So she returned and brought some hammocks.
Pejki kilwia tik majikaj: Tzapalu puchut, tzapalu puchut, tzapalu puchut, tzapalu puchut, tzapalu puchut, tzapalu puchut!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She started to say in magic, "down silk-cotton tree, down tree, down tree, down tree, down tree!"
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!".
Pwes shinechwikakan.
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!".
Kiwikaket.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Yajket. Kiwikaket.
They went and they took him.
Tiut tikwikat ne tuermanitoj, lama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"We're going to take our little brother, gramdmother."
Pero kiwikaket.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
But they took him.
Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."
Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."
Kishipejket, kipakat, kiwikaket chan ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
They skinned him, washed him, and took him to their grandmother's.
Talikat masat, wan sanka.
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.
Tesu, tesu ja masat, sino ne idamuj ne inlama, ja yaja kimiktijket, wan kiwikaket ne nakat pal kikwa ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
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.
Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!
"Sleep now!", she said in Pipil, "go to sleep!".
Shikuchikan!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kuchi
Translation
Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!
"Sleep now!", she said in Pipil, "go to sleep!".
Nikan nakak ne tejitaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Nikan nakak ne tejitaj. Kiajsi se pedasoj tejaj. Kitzuntapan.
"The piece of tile stuck here (pointing to the back of the neck); she found a piece of tile and she busted my head."
Ashan shikitzkikan tulama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!
"Now grab our grandmother; let her pass her piss."
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
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
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.
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
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 · See in the dictionary: ika, tika
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.
Pero yejemet te inaket la verdad sino ajsiket ankilwijket si por casualidad kitztuk se siwapil panuk ka ne cerca ikal ne diaj panuk ne urakanasoj.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: kal
Translation
But the did not tell the truth, but rather arrived asking if by chance he had seen a girl pass near his house the day of the big storm.
Kunij yaja kitzki wan kwikak ka ichan, wan kilwij isiwaw ma kimiktij wan kichiwki se komidaj wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.
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
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.
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
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 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
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
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
An trece de julio y dia de San Antonio nin ninemi nuchan tisennemit a la par wan se nuamikuj, witz wejka, yaja kineki kikaki kwentos tay tik nutechan kikchiwtuk suceder.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: kaki
Translation
Today, the 13th of July and St. Anthony's day, I am here in my house together with my friend who comes from far away. He likes to hear stories about what has taken place in my town.
Yajika keman yaja mayana , ina isel, "por el ultimo nikmai kan nemi nuteku, kan nemi nunan."
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".
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.
Yajika niwitz.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
Nimayana, nunan. Yajika niwitz.
"I'm hungry, mother; that's why I've come."
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 · See in the dictionary: alwika
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 · See in the dictionary: alwika
Translation
His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.
Pero keman niyaw nimukwepa niyawi niyaw nikajwa ne nunan tayika yaja nechmakatuk.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ika, tika
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: yaja, yajika
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.
Yajika kwak niyaw nimukwewpa niyawi ka Arkuj, niyaw niknutza nuteku pal nikajwa.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
Therefore when I go back to the arch, I'm going to speak to my father to chew him out."
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
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.
Tayika te?
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ika, tika
Translation
Tayika te? Naja niLionaj!
"Sure, I'm Leonarda."
Pwes, tiawit tikitat ka naj nikalaki nuchan.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: kalaki
Translation
"OK, let's go see that I will enter my house."
Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.
He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.
Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.
He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.
Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor. Kilwia: "Nana Lionaj!"
Then, when the man arrived who brought the woman tied with his belt, he said, "Doña Leonarda".
Nikan ninemi, señor.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: nikan
Translation
Nikan ninemi, señor. Tay tikneki?
"Here I am, señor, what do you want?"
Aj, nin nalwika se siwat tina kaj taja.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: alwika
Translation
"Oh, I bring a woman here who says that she is you."
"Tayika te?
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ika, tika
Translation
"Tayika te? NiLionaj."
"'sure, I'm Leonarda.'"
Al descuido nikilpij wan nusinidor wan nin nalwika pal niwitz nikita su cierto ka tesu tinemi."
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: alwika
Translation
"On the sly I tied her up with my belt and I'm bringing her here to see if it's true that it's not you."
Tayika te?
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ika, tika
Translation
Tayika te? Naj nin (ni)nemi, mas bien nisekmiki.
"Sure, I'm here, but I'm cold."
Yajika nimuketzki niktatia tit pal nimututunia.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
"That's why I got up to light the fire to warm up."
De la gran jwersaj, ke kichiwat saber ken kichiwki, ne takat kikashantij, kan kashanik, kunij welik sutumik, "kisa mutalua".
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
In their struggle, it's not clear what she did to make the man loosened her. When it was loosened, she was able to get untied; she took off running.
Mukwepki kita tik ikaraj; Kitak tujtumak iish, tesu ken iish jentej.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
He turned around to look her in the face and he saw her large eyes, not like people's eyes.
Naja nechchiwki kontar nutatanoy, kaj esas cosas, pwes keman yaja joven kikaktuk kaj kichiwtuk suseder tik techan.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
My grandfather told me these things that when he was young he heard happen in this town.
Yajika, an nuamikoj nikchij kontar pal kimati ka nemi Tzuntekumat wan nemi Siwanawal, pal kaj te kipia balor kimutia.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
Therefore, now, I told my friend so that he will know that the "skull" exists and that the Siguanaba exists, for whoever is not brave will be frightened.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Ne syujti ne nupiltzin kimutij ka yajki kimutiat tzanat ne tik ne mil, yajika kimutij a, ina kitak ne Sipitiyuj, ina.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
Once my son was terrified when he was going to frighten off grackels there in the cornfield. So he was frightened; he says he saw the sipitillo.
Yajika ya kishmati nusan ne Sipitiyuj.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja, yajika
Translation
That's how he came to know the sipitillo also.
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