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Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976

Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
Ne iseltzin kipiat. Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
They had him there all alone; he began to get sick, he started to get ill.
Pwes kilwia ne shuretzin: Ne mutelpuchtzin kukuya kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
"Well", the old man said, "your little son is sick, he's sick".
Eje, kilwia, kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
"Yes", she said, "he is sick".

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.
Teya su welik musalua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: inté, teya, teya²
Translation
Witz ka madrugada ne itzuntekun. Teya su welik musalua.
The head came in the morning; she was no longer able to attach herself.
Kinutza ne ishulejyu; ya tesu kichiwa kasoj, ken ne kuchikia, wan tesu kuchi.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
She spoke to her husband; he didn't pay attention to her, as though he was sleeping, but he wasn't asleep.
Teya su weli; yawia miki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: inté, teya, teya²
Translation
He could no longer make it; he was going to die.
Pero kenemej nikmakak chil, teya su welik.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: inté, teya, teya²
Translation
"But since I put chili on her, she no longer could."
Yajki ya; kimatki kan nemi ne isiwapiltzin.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
She went. She knew where her daughter was.
Pero, pero kinshijshikuj ne inlama, porke ya kipia se enamorado.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
But their grandmother deceived them because she had a lover.
Ne iishwiuwan teya su kinmaka ne takwal, se maya ne ienamorado sentakwat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: maka², semaya, inté, teya, teya²
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 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.
Ya les di de comer, pero lambanse los labios!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Ya les di de comer, pero lambanse los labios! Kilwia, como tik kastiaj kinnutzki. Lambanse los labios, ya comieron!
"I already fed you, but lick your lips", she said, since she spoke to them in Spanish, "lick your lips, you already ate".
Lambanse los labios, ya comieron!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Ya les di de comer, pero lambanse los labios! Kilwia, como tik kastiaj kinnutzki. Lambanse los labios, ya comieron!
"I already fed you, but lick your lips", she said, since she spoke to them in Spanish, "lick your lips, you already ate".
Kinilwia tik kastiaj: Levantense mis nietos, ya esta la comida."
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
She said to them in Spanish, "get up my grandchildren, the food is ready".
Mas ka tiutak, witzaya wan ne itapak.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: witz
Translation
Later in the evening she was coming with her wash.

Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Tesu kitztuk, lo ke si ya kiajsik en campo libre se chumpipi.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Yaja (ne) tay kichiwki contestar, kaj siwapil? Tesu kitztuk, lo ke si ya kiajsik en campo libre se chumpipi.
What he answered was that he had not seen a girl. What he had found on open ground was a turkey.
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.
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.
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: inté, teya, teya²
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

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.
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.
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.

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: yaja
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.
Ya klaroj kitak kaj witz ne siwat, pero en ese rato yaja kishmatki, kitak yaja se siwat itukay Lionaj.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
He saw clearly that the woman was coming but at that time he recognized her, (thinking that) he saw a woman named Leonarda.
Pero antes de que ya musutuma, tay ora pejki kichij jwersaj pal yawi, muchiwa fijar ne takat ka ne siwat ne iijikshi tesu iijikshi ken pal jentej, sino ke iijikshi puru iijikshi tijlan.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
But before she got untied, when she began to struggle to go, the man noticed that the woman's feet were not like people's feet, rather they were really chicken feet.
Ya mutaluj asta ajsik ten at, mukuminki tik se ombron posaj.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
She ran until she got to the edge of the river and she throw herself into a big pool.
Kan mukuminki tik ne posaj, ne kishpuluj; teya kitak.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: inté, teya, teya²
Translation
Kan mukuminki tik ne posaj, ne kishpuluj; teya kitak. Ne puliwik ne siwat.
When she threw herself into the pool there he lost (sight of) her and couldn't see her any longer; there the woman disappeared.

El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Yajika ya kishmati nusan ne Sipitiyuj.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
That's how he came to know the sipitillo also.

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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).