Niwakashææ'ö 01.01

01.01.01

When she was a little girl my mother used to tell about when she was a little boy.

• thsiyeksa'aa -- when she was a girl
• nu'yë -- my mother
• kuthyunyánö' -- she used to tell about things
• tyesnye'skwa' -- she used to say
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• haksa'aa -- (he is a) boy
• kaöhwö' -- she herself

01.01.02

She just had a big brother and a little brother.

• hahtsi' -- her big brother
• höwö'kê' -- her little brother
• khu -- and
• nithuti'kë'shö'ö -- they are all related to each other as siblings

01.01.03

Maybe that is why she thought about being a boy.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• nô -- maybe
• ne kaiôni -- that's why, that's the reason
• yëhetye'skwa' -- she used to think
• haksa'aa -- (he is a) boy
• aayötö' -- she might be

01.01.04

Always when she was a little girl she would say they used to call her Tommy.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• wai -- indeed
• tyutkôt -- always
• thsiyeksa'aa -- when she was a girl
• wa'ákë' kës -- she always said
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ökyásthak -- people used to call me that

01.01.05

She told all kinds of stories about when she was a little boy named Tommy.

• ha'téyô -- all kinds of things
• yekeuthak -- she used to tell stories
• thsiaksa'aa -- when (s)he was a boy
• shakutiyasthak -- they used to call her that