112 Week 11 Day 1

Sentences were given in English along with scrambled Paiute words for us to assemble in the correct order.

Muʻa ümü ka kucu tonohoķu.

• tonoho to cook underground
• English: Tomorrow they are going to cook the cow underground.
• Wycliffe: Moo'a umu ka kootsoo tonohokwu.

Ika masüasi isu paʻa naaķu.

• English: After you plant this, it will grow tall.
• Wycliffe: Eka masuase esoo paa'a naakwu.

Nüķâitü su patusuba mühano i woʻhiküti cacibuiwünü.

• patusuba star (NP-B heading is paatusuba)
• -küti cause to happen
• woʻhi to bark.
• cacibua v. take out, to. catch, to.
• English: The moon and the stars bring out the howl in me.
• Wycliffe: Nukwaetu soo patoosooba muhano e wo'hekute tsatsebooewunu.

Nü natünituinaķâitü nümmipaana, paana nü kai himma sumaʻyü.

• English: I go to classes, but I don't remember anything.
• Wycliffe: Nu natunetooenakwaetu nummepana pana nu ki hemma soomayu.

Kai nü ka po kaibamatu miadü supidaķatu.

• English: I don't know the road that goes to the mountain.
• Wycliffe: Ki nu ka po kibamatoo meadu soopedakwatoo.

Nü kai ü nakasupidaķatu. Misu üni habiʻi?

• (Wycliffe) mesoo unne say it again is a phrase we get early on in our "survival words," but I have not found mesoo or anything resembling it in any dictionary (yet?)
• English: I don't understand you. Say it again?
• Wycliffe: Nu ki u nakasoopedakwatoo. Mesoo unne habe'e?

Tü pukugubayuna wüʻihupaana tü kadagapa camaʻhu.

• wüʻihu to fall down, to drop
• -paana Often translated as although, but seems like a kind of general purpose conjunction that doesn't neatly correspond to English. Also used for negative commands. Kai ünipaana! Stop talking!
• camaʻhu v. to injure, to hurt. NP-B heading is camau.
• English: "He fell off his horse and hurt his back."
• Wycliffe: Tu pookoogoobayoona wu'ehoo pana tu kadagapa tsama'hoo.