Title: Halq'eméylem / Lesson: Legend of Cultus Lake

hal: spoleqwíth'a
english: ghost, corpse

hal: kwélexw
english: to get, to have, to catch, to find

hal: tés
english: to approach, get to

hal: xó:kw'em
english: to take a bath, bathe oneself

hal: lhq'él:exw
english: to know (it)

hal: q'pét
english: gather s-th, pick up s-th (stuff that's scattered about), collect s-th, gather it up, pick them up

hal: théxw
english: dissappear, to dissappear

hal: p'ékw
english: to float, come up

hal: wōqw'
english: to drown, to drift downriver (also flood)

hal: tél:exw
english: find something out, to know something

hal: hálp'ex
english: eating something (short of a social meal)

hal: kwelkwáléws
english: murders, several murdered

hal: áthelets
english: bottom of water , bottom of waterfall, basket, anything. Atchelitz Village

hal: stetlám
english: equipment

hal: Tl'osu lam télexwes...
english: and so he went to find out ...

hal: ewéta kw'e kwélexw kw'e wōqw'.
english: nobody could get the ones who drowned.

hal: ...lis xwe'ít ses thexw ye la wōqw'
english: ...the cause of these missing drowned ones.

hal: kw'es tl'o te ts'q'éyx̲ spath e'helpex yutl'ólem.
english: that it was a black bear eating them up.

hal: Welís wōqw' kw'e wátes líte Qeltós x̲ótsa...
english: When someone drowned in Cultus lake...

hal: Qe éwelh me p'ekw kw'e la wōqw'.
english: But the ones who drowned never float up.

hal: Lis la kw'il swáyel...
english: Usually a few days pass..

hal: Q'epétes mekw' te stetláms tútl'o.
english: He gathered up all his equipment

hal: Ewéta lheq'élexwes kw'ewát ses wel thexw
english: Nobody figured out the disappearances

hal: ...lite Qeltós x̲ótsa .
english: ... in Cultus lake.

hal: La tes te s'athelets tl'osu télexwes
english: He approached the bottom and he discovered it

hal: ....qesu me p'ekw te spoleqwíth'a.
english: ...and the corpses float up.

hal: Osu la te s'áthelets te x̲ótsa.
english: so he went to the bottom of the lake.

hal: Tl'os éwelh xókw'em ye mestíyexw...
english: And this is why people never bathe...

hal: Li te swíyqe e'kwelkwálekw lis xwe'ít.
english: There was a man that was wondering about these murders