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Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
26 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ma mawilti wan mas pipiltzitzin, yu muchiwa alegrar.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."
Shitejchia, kilwia, te shiyu, shitejchia.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Wait", he said, "don't go", "wait!".
Kilwia ne itejtelpuchtzin: Ini yu anmuamigituj.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
He said to his sons, "this is going to be your friend".
Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
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."
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Kinutza ne ishulejyu; ya tesu kichiwa kasoj, ken ne kuchikia, wan tesu kuchi.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: shulejyu
Translation
She spoke to her husband; he didn't pay attention to her, as though he was sleeping, but he wasn't asleep.
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.
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."
Te shikwakan nushulejyu, te shikwakan nushulejyu!, asi le dice.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: shulejyu
Translation
"Don't eat my husband, don't eat my husband!", that's what she said to them.
Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
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."
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.
Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
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."
Te, porke yu kikukuawitzti, yu kikukuawitzti!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
Te, porke yu kikukuawitzti, yu kikukuawitzti! Kinilwia.
"No, because he is going to get stuck with the thorns, he's going to get pricked", she tells them.
Uk yu witz ne tukujkul wan yu kimati ne. parran! pa! yu temu.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
"Now our 'bogeyman' is going to come there and he's going to feel the "parran", "pa", he's going to fall."
Top, top, top, top, top, yu panu ne wijwitzti.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
"'top, top, top, top", the thorns are going to pierce him."
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.
Me duele la cabeza, yu estoy rendido, kilwiat tik kastiaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
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.
Ini ne inakayu tukujkul!
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.
"That was our bogeyman's flesh", they said.
Yu kimaka se mordida.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
She was going to bite him.
Bueno, esta bueno, pero yu kita nulama ken yu panu.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
"OK, but my grandmother is going to see what's going to happen."
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
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.
Sources and licenses
- Schultze Jena, Leonhard (recop.); King, Alan R. (ed.). Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku: narradores en náhuat Ynes Masin y otros. Edición en línea, enero 2012.
- Ramírez Vásquez, Genaro. Naja Ni Genaro. Edited by Alan R. King. IRIN (Iniciativa para la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat), 2004; first electronic edition, 2013.
- Cárcamo, Héctor; Guardado, Martín; Domínguez, Ana; Aquino, Celeste; Ordóñez, Gary; Salgado, Hugo. Aprendiendo Náhuat en el Siglo 21: Achtu Taksalis. Edmonton: University of Alberta Library, 2023. https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/nawatse/. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Adapted by nahuat.com.
- 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).