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Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976

Pero kenemej tesu mawiltia ka afuera, muchijki entristeser.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mawiltia
Translation
But, since he didn't play outside, he became sad.
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: maka, maka², mati
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."
Ma mawilti wan mas pipiltzitzin, yu muchiwa alegrar.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."
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.
Aj, shikida, mamaj, kilwia ne piltzintzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Oh, look, mama", said the little boy.
Ini ja niknekiskia ma nupal!, esto.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
"That's what I wish were mine, that there."
Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan. Muchijki alegrar.
The little boy was happy, we mean the prince, was happy.
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: mawiltia
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".

El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976

Naka ne ikwerpoj, se maya ne itzuntekun.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka², semaya
Translation
Her body remains and only her head goes.
Kilwijket ma kimawalti chil.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
They told him to smear chili on her.
Witz ka madrugada ne itzuntekun.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Witz ka madrugada ne itzuntekun. Teya su welik musalua.
The head came in the morning; she was no longer able to attach herself.
Yajki ka tiupan chan ne palej, ma kimaka ne konsejoj ken kichiwaskia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Yajki kitajtani seyuk konsejoj. Yajki ka tiupan chan ne palej, ma kimaka ne konsejoj ken kichiwaskia.
He went to ask for more advice; he went to the church, to the priest's. He should advise him how he should do it.
Naja tesu nikmati, peroj nechilwijket ka nusiwaw brujaj, ma niktalij kwidado.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
"I don't know, but they told me my wife is a witch, that I should be careful."
Ka madrugada witz, witz sepa.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"In the morning she came, she came again."
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 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
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."
Ka kanaj kalmutijtiwit se masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Who knows from where a deer was startled.
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: masat
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.
Kabal tapanik ka tajku tayua, ma tikinakan ne "medianoche", tikaki tajku tayua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.
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!"
Ne puchut waltemu witz, waltemu witz ne puchut y tajtasa ne majmajtzal tik tal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The silk-cotton tree came donw, down came the silk-cotton tree and its brances touched the ground.
Kinekit temut, ma kaltemulti.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Wan tami kalnutzket ne inlama. Kinekit temut, ma kaltemulti.
Later they called their grandmother; they want to get down, get them down.
Kalmiktijket se masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: masat
Translation
Yajket. Kalmiktijket se masat.
They went; they killed a deer.
Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.
They skinned it and told their grandmother to cook it; she cooked it.
Ne iishwiuwan teya su kinmaka ne takwal, se maya ne ienamorado sentakwat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka², semaya
Translation
She no longer gave the food to her grandchildren; she only ate together with her lover.
Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: man, mana, manu
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."
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.
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
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.
Ma kia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Bueno, esta bueno! Ma kia. Pero niu nikmiktia ne chimpitoj.
"Well, that's all right, so be it, but I'm going to kill that youngest child."
Mas ka tiutak, witzaya wan ne itapak.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Later in the evening she was coming with her wash.
Ma kipanulti ne iashish!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
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.
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
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 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: maka, maka², mati
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.
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
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 yaja kitzki wan kwikak ka ichan, wan kilwij isiwaw ma kimiktij wan kichiwki se komidaj wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.
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 · See in the dictionary: maka², semaya
Translation
Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.

El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

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: mayana
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
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.
Kunij in, ah jodido; Entonces né tesu tamal ne tay nikwajtuk, mas bien ikwi turuj nikwaj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then he said, "oh son-of-a-bitch". "So this was not a tortilla I have eaten, nor bread, rather it was cowshit that I ate.
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: maka², semaya
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.
Kilwia los dos pipil "taja timayordomoj, pero maya taja mumanuj mas vivo yaja alvolario".
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: maka², semaya
Translation
He said to the two boys, "you are a steward, but only you. Your brother is smarter; he is a wizard.
Al fin keman yaja kineki miki ka mayana wan te kipia kishtia se espejuj tay oraj takipini.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: mayana
Translation
Finally, when he wanted to die because he was hungry and because he had nothing, he got out a mirror while it was lightning.

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
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: maka, maka², mati
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.
Naj nin (ni)nemi, mas bien nisekmiki.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Tayika te? Naj nin (ni)nemi, mas bien nisekmiki.
"Sure, I'm here, but I'm cold."

El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Ne Sipitiyuj chikitikchin ma tumak ne ishumpe; tesu ombron, tresu kojtik, chikitikchin puruj jentej.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
The sipitillo is very small but his hat is gigantic. He is not big, not tall; he's very little, but pure human.
Varios tesu kishmatket ma ka kichij konvenir kisa, kisa con la noche, las doce de la noche, tayuwa.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: maka, maka², mati
Translation
Many haven't known that it doesn't pay to go out at night, at midnight.

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