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Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
29 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
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 · See in the dictionary: nan, ina
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."
Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: ina
Translation
Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan. Muchijki alegrar.
The little boy was happy, we mean the prince, was happy.
Kilwia ne inan: Shikida, shikida, nalwika se nuwilutzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nan
Translation
He said to his mother, "look, look, I brought a little bird".
Kitamutak ne isapatiyas de oroj, kianki ne inan.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nan
Translation
He threw away his golden shoes; his mother picked them up.
Taja tiu tinaka de ministro.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Taja tiu tinaka de ministro. Taja seyuk ministro. Wan taja seyuk ministro.
"You will be a minister, you will be another minister, and you will be yet another minister."
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Mukechkupina, kisa pashalua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She takes her head off and goes out to walk around.
Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
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.
Yawi ne Tantepuslamat, ja yaja inan, ne brujaj Tantepuslamat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: nan
Translation
The witch (the "iron-toothed-old-woman") came. It's she who is her mother, the witch "iron-toothed-old-woman".
Kabal tapanik ka tajku tayua, ma tikinakan ne "medianoche", tikaki tajku tayua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.
Tiut tikshipewat, inaket.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: ina
Translation
"Let's skin him", they said.
Tesu ja masat, ne inakayu tukujkul, ne idamuj ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
That was not a deer; it was the meat of their 'bogeyman', of their grandmother's fellow.
Ini ne inakayu tukujkul!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.
"That was our bogeyman's flesh", they said.
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 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: ina
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 inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas?
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ina
Translation
Kunij inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas? Kan nakak ne ujumiu? Pal niyaw nikita kan nemi.
Then the three said, "well, what you have done is all right, but I want you to do me a favor". "Show me, at least, where the feathers are, where the bones were left, so I can go see where they are".
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
An niyaw nikchij kontar ka nin nemi se chulet ke yaja propio yaja nechilwijtuk ka inan ne iteku né tik arkuj nemit.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: nan
Translation
Today I'm going to tell him that there is an old man here who himself has told me that his mother and his father are there in the arch. (There is a natural rock-arch very near Santo Domingo de Guzmán.)
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: ina
Translation
So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".
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: nan
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: nan
Translation
His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Aj, nin nalwika se siwat tina kaj taja.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ina
Translation
"Oh, I bring a woman here who says that she is you."
Kunij inak yaja: Ini tesu yek, ini nukujkul, pero nikchiwki jregar, porke nikilpij.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: ina
Translation
Then he said, "this is not good". "This is a spook." "But I messed her up because I tied her up."
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: ina
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.
Sources and licenses
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- King, Alan R. Timumachtikan! Curso de lengua náhuat para principiantes adultos. 2011.
- Aráuz, Próspero. El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos. San Salvador, El Salvador: Departamento Editorial del Ministerio de Cultura, 1960. Adapted by nahuat.com.
- Campbell, Lyle. The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton Grammar Library 1. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, 1985. Traducción al español de los textos: Mauricio Mixco, en Campbell, El Idioma Pipil (Nahuate) de El Salvador (manuscrito inédito).