Southern Pomo
This is the main verb in (H VIII: 1.1), its meaning, its stem, and its affixes.
ču:maṭ'yey č'a:šba kul:u hwademʔdu
Main verb: hwademʔdu
Meaning:'always went around'
Stem: /hw-/ (||hu:w-||)
Affixes: ||-aded-|| DIRECTIONAL ('about/along')
||-wadu|| HABITUAL
This is argument marking strategy on 'gray squirrel' in (H VIII: 1.1).
ču:maṭ'yey č'a:šba kul:u hwademʔdu
||=yey|| AGENT (used on animate NPs which are unaffected and have control over the action)
This is the word class and meaning of the following word from (H VIII: 1.1):
č'a:šba
Word class: adverb
Meaning: 'always'
This is the meaning of the following phrase from (H VIII: 1.1):
k'ay:ama či:yow
'staying alone'
This is the free translation and word-by-word glossing of (H VIII: 1.1)
ču:maṭ'yey č'a:šba kul:u hwademʔdu, k'ay:ama či:yow.
ču:maṭ'=yey č'a:šba kul:u-0 hw-adem-ʔdu, k'ay:ama či:yo-w.
gray.squirrel=AGT always outside-DIFF go-DIR-HAB, alone stay-PFV
rock
ʔač:ay
man
daʔṱ'aw
ʔahčahčay (Dry Creek dialect) ʔahčahčey (Cloverdale dialect)
human; Indian person
k'a:de
friend
(singular vocative)
ʔa:ʔa ~ ʔa:
free form of 'I' (1SG.AGT)
ʔahka
gambl(ing)
hudʔakaywaʔa
'I want (to)...'
hudʔa-ka-y=wa=ʔa
want-CAUS-REFL=COP.EVID=1SG.AGT
k'oʔdi
good
ʔaṱ:o
1SG.PAT
This is the word for 'tree'
kʰa:le
This is the word for 'whence' (or 'from where')
he:ṱow
This is the word for 'arrow' (used to mean 'bow' at some points in the text)
c'u:ʔu
This is the word for 'bow'
šiʔmi
This is the word for 'homeward'~'toward home'~'house-ward'
ʔahčanhkʰay
[ʔah.ˈtʃaŋ̊.kʰaj]
(ʔahča 'house')
This is the word for 'at home' or 'in the house'
ʔač:a
(ʔahča 'home')This is the word for 'to try by pulling'
This is the word for 'sugar pine'
šahčonhkʰle
This is the root for 'break'
||-c'a-||
as in:
šuc':a-
hic':a-
di:lac'a-
This is the word for 'to sleep'
si:ma mi:ṭi-w