Niwakashææ'ö 01.31

01.31.01

Then came the garden.

• ne kayêthö -- the garden

01.31.02

My grandfather took over the planting of it with me as his helper.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne haksút -- my grandfather
• akniyëthwaskwa' -- we two used to plant it

01.31.03

Four kernels of corn to a hill, and then a bean.

• kéí -- four
• nikanêôké -- that many corn kernels
• skasae'tát -- one bean
• khu -- and

01.31.04

Nearby grew the squashes, round and yellow, hidden beneath their shady leaves.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• wai -- indeed
• tuskë -- nearby
• kányöhsôní -- the squash is growing
• ne' -- grammatical particle
• teyuthwe'nôní -- it's round
• tsitkwææ'ê' -- it's yellow
• khu -- and
• kanëhtönyö -- leaves (??)
• tyutôní -- it's growing there

01.31.05

By day they were just patches of green near the ever encroaching lighter bamboo.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• n-ëték -- in the daytime
• tkanëhtatsis -- dark leaves there
• tuskë -- nearby
• ne utkeu'tsuwanë -- bamboo (lit. "big grass")

01.31.06

But at night the three sisters sighed and sang beneath the stars.

• ne' -- grammatical particle
• ne sôé -- in the nighttime
• unötááyë' -- they whispered, they sighed
• unötênút -- they sang
• nö'kôkwá -- underneath
• ëkatsihsö'tahsiææ'k -- the stars will continue to be arrayed