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Wauja
Pronunciation
Verb
atokapai
- (transitive) he/she/it digs (a hole or digs up something)
- Awapotene yiu, aunukawi, umakonapai ipitsi. Awapoteneu. Hoona! Piya patoka topoho. Natu napotebeni! ipiSUN wi.
- "Well, let's bury her, let's kill her," they all said about her. "We'll bury her. Yes, we will!" " go dig her grave," . "I will bury her!" . her lover.
- Nakamapai yiu. Patokene natu wi!
- I'm dying in here. You dig me out now!
- Atokene tiu, tiu, iseepiyatene ipenuwaitsa kehoto yiu.
- So he dug her out, tiu, tiu , a little at a time, removing the earth that was covering her.
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References
- "Awapotene yiu" uttered by Itsautaku, storyteller and elder, recounting the traditional Wauja tale of the "Man Who Drowned in Honey," in the presence of his adolescent son Mayuri, adult daughter Mukura, and others. Recorded in Piyulaga village by E. Ireland, December 1989, transcript p. 6.
- "Nakamapai yiu" and "Atokene tiu, tiu," uttered by Itsautaku, ibid., transcript p. 13.