ArosII

'When I was a girl, my mother bought golden earrings.'

nos tolkosya:ya, rimełna'nej ma' ij mon̍lo:to di' o:ro.

'She sold one cow.'

rimałe'ne oj sota'ra di' wa:ka

'That was the price of those earrings.'

asko jankarimeła'ij ney mon̍lotowanra:ni.

'One cow was what she sold.'

sota'ra di' wa:ka oj rimałe'ne.

'And she bought them.'

che rimełna'nekis.

'And when I was a bit more mature (more woman), she gave them to me, the earrings.'

che noj jayna dochi' kwaj jayna din̍kosniwa jayna kayłe:kayi'ne nisko, nij mon̍lo:to.

'The earrings were small, round like this, round earrings like this.'

tochi' ij mon̍lo:to, jam̍cholo:to ney, jam̍cho ij mon̍lo:to ney.

'Like your ring, that's how they were.'

jayson̍ is sortijan, jeya'ij mon̍lo:to.

'The earrings were nice.'

jayaw-, jiranni ij mon̍lo:to.

'And she gave them to me.'

che kayłe:kayi'ne nisko.

'And those earrings when I was only just a girl.'

che iskoj mon̍lo:to noj jo'mi jayna tolkosya:ya.

'And they don't damage the ears.'

che kaj rey den̍wa is loto:to, jo:jo'

'Nothing happens to my ears.'

kaj rey je'kaka'ij loto:to.

'And when we had carnaval, the brother-in-law of the father of my children came, when it was already carnaval.'

che noj jayna karnabałeway'łi uj kwen̍tujakuj pa:pa ij majni, joychełus noj jayna

'He came to our house.'

jo'yajus buka' noj asnay'łi.

'And he came directly to me into the kitchen.'

che chonlokwankayus noj kosi:na.

'where I was making brekfast.'

noj ena' ji:sanapi:na ij des'ayuno ena'.

'..., he ran towards me and caught me.'

chonlo us usko, jayikwankayus che yo'kayus.

'He took me around the waist and carried me to the water.'

jułpin̍kayus che joyłe:kayus noj to:mi.

'And he threw me in the water.'

che jara'lołkayus.

'And I didn't let go of him.'

che inła kaj rey nanra:wa rey nusko.

'Because I also held him around the waist, and he (held) me.'

bo jema' ij juła:pitus, che usko ninła.

'The two of us submerged in the water, at that carnaval.'

oy'oy ya:bakwanlołiy'łi noj to:mi, noj karnaba.

'And the other women went after the father of my children.'

che is so:te di' kwe:ya joyakwa'is uj pa:pa ij majni.

'They caught him too, and carried him.'

yó'na'is jema', che jóyałé'is ... usko.

'He ran to the hole where we always threw what we sweeped from the yard.'

ja:yi us noj siłkwa di' chon̍ jara'napinay'łi ij pulr-, pulpulra noj lo:los.

'And we had many pigs.'

che kawra ij ko:chiy'łi.

'And that was where the father of my children went, to the hole.'

che asko joyna'uj papa ij majni noj siłkwa.

'He jumped into the hole, in the middle of the hole.'

pénsiłus noj siłkwa, noj terescho'oj siłkwa.

'And there were the excrements that we always swept off the yard.'

che da' is chi' di' da' eney, ij chi' di', ... noj chon̍ pulalolosway'łi noj lo:los.

'That was where the excrements of the pigs, the chicken, everything went, in the hole.'

asko jóyna'ij chiya'ij ko:chi, jo'me, ba:ra noj siłkwa.

'And that was where the father of my children ran.'

che asko jayina'us kuj pa:pa ij majni.

'He stopped and caught the other women.'

enchełus che yo'na'us ij kwe:ya di'i so:te.

'and he submerged them, in the hole that was dirty, that had the shit of the pigs, the carnevalistic women.'

che ya'kachinbutełna'us noj daya' siłkwa di' noj cho'esni, di' nij chiya ij ko:chi, ij karnaba:pa di' kwe:ya.

'and his brother-in-law, he caught me.'

che uj kwen̍tuja'us usko yo'kay inła.

'He caught me, he threw me in the water, and I held onto him.'

usko joyłe:kay, jara'lołkay noj to:mi, che inła n̍ waypa nusko.

'The two of us went under the water.'

oy'oy ya:bakwanlołiy'łi noj to:mi.

'And then my hair got loose.'

che jayłe jayna man̍cho:cho aj risakwa:kwa.

'Then probably my earrings got caught then in my hair.'

jayna joychoy sulłe ij mon̍lo:to jayna naj risakwa:kwa.

'I was bathing already.'

jayna ena' n̍ łam̍łam̍ ena'.

'Already when I was washing myself I remembered my earrings.'

jayna noj ena' łam̍wa n̍ to'baycho nij mon̍lo:to.

'Then I touched my ears, one was already gone, there was only one earring left.'

jayna tolna ij loto:to, jayna kwa:le oj sota'ra jayna ja' sota'ra oj mon̍lo:to

'That was how my earrings got lost.'

nasko kwalewa'ij mon̍lo:to.

'Never again did I buy other earrings, never again.'

manra jayna kaj rey rimełna:wa rey son̍ra di' mon̍lo:to di' o:ro, kwaj ka: rey.

'And now these, just fashion earrings.'

di' ..., che rey ni:ri, ja' rey fantasiyalo:to.

'I didn't want earrings anymore.'

ka: rey jana'pa jayna inła ij mon̍lo:to.

'Only now, only these which my daughter gave me.'

jo'mi ney, jo'mi i:ri rey ij la' kayłe:wa'nej majni.

'which she put in my ears, these which I have put.'

di' do'-, do'lototowa'ne i'ko ay aykaka da' do'na jayna.

'They damage my ears.'

den̍loto:kay ij rey.

'My ears don't want (just any kind) just these.'

jana'pa ij rey loto:to is rey ja' cualqu-

'...these earrings that are not good, which are just (tin), which are not of gold.'

is rey ja' rey loy manaka'ra di' mon̍lotowanra:ni, di' ja' rey la:ta, di' loy rey oro:łe

'They don't want them because my ears get damaged.'

kaj janapa'i bo den̍den̍ ij loto:to.

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