Sunday, January 5, 2014

G: English - S.Haida

gaff fish (going to gaff a fish) future tense
hlk’yaawjaaw

gaff fish (stick)
hlk’yaawjuu

gall bladder
k’ugansGaan

gallbladder (fish gallbadder)
kiixajii

galley on a boat
tluu kuuga naay

gamble
sindagaay

gamble
sing.ga

gambler
sinda llGaayGa

gambling
  • sing.ga
  • sinda aaw.wah

gambling
  • sinda
  • sinda ts’ang – going to

gambling game (mainland north america word)
lahaal

gambling house
waahll naay

gambling sticks (literal – gambling for)
sing.ga Ganu

gambling sticks
sin

game
  • doxsinaay
  • doxsina

gap between rocks
  • kl’aadan
  • tl’aadan

garbage (what you throw away)
gina tl’l daangs

garbage bin / pail bucket
sk’il GaanaGaay

garden (a place to plant)
  • tawk’ii daanaay
  • tawk’ii hldaan
  • tawk’ii daan

garden (already planted)
taw k’ihl

garden (grandmother her garden place)
nanaay gyaaGa taawk’ii daanaay

gardening (digging up plants)
taw xiid

gardening (planting small things)
ink’ii

gardening (planting)
taawk’ii

gas station (grease house)
taw naay

gastropds (small) (littorina/calliostoma/fusitriton spp.)
skaay

gather
  • gud Ga kaasdll
  • gud Ga kaasdll.yaay

gather seafood from the beach (only seafood gathering)
  • ’uwanGa
  • ’wanGa

gather things
gudGa isda

gather together any old way
jaahlt’axid

gather, gathering (seafood or wood, or berries)
  • halxa
(item) gyiu hll halxa ga (gan; Gas ga).

gathering
  • gud Gad iis
Guuk’uusuu singaa dlu da isdyang?
Sing gyinuu hll gud Gad iis gan.

gathering fireweed – summer activity
tll’aal giiyu hll halxa

gayperson
  • nang aak’iixa
  • iihllnts’iida aak’iixa – man
  • jaa’ada aak’iixa – woman

gear (setting fishing gear)
xiida sGaaGaaw

generous
  • k’ang.guudang.nga
  • k’ang.guudang.ngaay

gentle
  • damxan
  • guuda

gentle (be gentle)
guuslass hla dlljuu

geoduck
stan

gestering towards the door for us to go home
hlkuusGalang

get
  • daw
  • dawtl’lx(go and get it)
  • dawsG(go get)
  • dawt’al (going down to get)
  • dawts’ii (going inside to get)
  • dawGwa (going outside to get)
  • dawxiid (going to get it)
  • dawGa (going to get now)
  • dawhll (going up to get, to get)
  • dawgil (going up to house from beach to get something)
  • dawtl’lxa (to get it)
  • dawxid (to get)
  • dawsts’iit’a (get swiftly)
  • dawxiid (getting something)

get (going to get someone in a boat/car)
  • taanGa tanGa
  • taanGa

get everything ready
gina ’waadluxan tll GiihlGii da

get into everything
k’aanguudang

get on
kaadll hla

get on (difficulty getting on board of boat)
giiGwiidll

get out of my way!
  • hinda tllguu
  • hinda tllk’wan

get there
GidGad

get up
k’aahluu hla

get used to it
k’aahlsgid

getting on board a boat, plane, train, car
kaadll dii

getting use to something
k’aahlsgid

ghost (is scared of ashes scatter them around to keep them away)
  • k’aadxan
  • k’aadxan.na

giant kelp – small floats at the base of the fronds (macrocystis integrifloia)
k’aay

giant kelp (macrocystis integrifloia – dried giant kelp with herring roe)
xaayda k’aaga

giant kelp (macrocystis integrifloia – giant kelp with herring roe)
  • k’aaw tl’ldala
  • k’aaw tl’ldalas

giant kelp (macrocystis integrifloia)
ng.aal

giant vetch (vicia gigantea)
xuuya tluuGa

giggle
  • jiiGahlGuu
  • guuxahlGuu

gill net boat
aaxada sgaagaw tluuwaay

gills (fish gills)
ts’ii.in

girl, woman, female
jaada

girlfriend (when people like to talk about their girlfriends to other people)
jiiGaxiilinda

give (present tense)
  • isda
Ising ah dii gii ga isda.
Give me more.

give
kihlGwang

give – try to give away
giidaal t’aajing

give (anxious to give)
guugiigid

give (give me)
  • haala
Haala dii sguuna.
Give me a kiss.

give (past tense)
  • isdii
  • isdll
  • ts’isdlaay

give (to give)
’ley ’la

give away
giida

give away (hat only)
  • gujaal
  • gujil – used in a sentence

give away lots of things
giigadang

give away something small
xaasdll

give food to someone visiting
daaying

give someone something ex. one dollar
k’aysdll

give something and take it back (you will get a hairy belly button)
sgil Gaawa

give something big and/or round to someone
k’aysdll.la

give something flat i.e. coin
guusdll

Dii gii guusdll.
Give me a coin or a hat.

give up
  • kaayinsdll
  • kayaansdll

gives
’waagii isda

giving
kuusdll

giving (handing over something)
xaasdll

giving (to hand over something that is flat or round and flat)
guusdl

giving away something (whole) – i.e. bride, dog
dlljil

gizzard of bird
sk’aaxaalaaGii

glance (a quick glance)
k’apalagung

glare
  • sgaasGid
  • sgaasGiidang
  • sgaasGidsGa

glare (mad glare)
kyah tl’uujiigid

glare at
kyaasgaajaagiid

glass
kalga

glass (drinking glass)
Gandll xuutl’awaay

glass (small broken pieces of china glass)
k’amal

glasses (eye glasses)
  • xangakalgaay
  • xang.giiGiixajaw
  • xang.giixajaw

glasses sitting on top of head
kwaxaaging

glide (wings spread out)
xidsG id

gliding along smoothly
sinxyangdal

gliding over with a boat – just touching the rock
gaadts’inhldal

glimpse
kyahlas

gloves
  • stllhlk’unt’is
  • stllhlk’unk’ii
  • stllk’unxiiyaaw

glue
  • ts’aa tl’laay
  • ts’aatl’a

glue (object to apply the glue)
ts’aatl’aaw’uu

glued
ts’ahlt’is

glueing (present tense)
ts’aatl’ldii

gnawing
k’uusk’aahlGahl

gnawing on a bone
k’uunanang

Giin gyuu dang iis gudang?
What do you want?

go
  • kaaw
... Gaauu dii guda kaaw. ...there i want go.

go
  • kaadla
  • waay

go
  • iis
  • is gan - go ( went or gone)
  • is gii gan - go (already went)
  • is t’aajing - trying to go
  • is guuda - want to go
  • is gyin - when i go
  • Isda hla. - Go do it.

go ahead (go ahead and do it)
haaysda

go (time to go)
hak, kayd dii 

go away!
hiinda

go back
sdyaalgaay

go go ready keep on going join in ready to go
haay haay

go on
hay hay

Go over there.
’Waagwii.

Go to bed.
Taay hla.

Go to the back of the house (important people sit there).
Taatsxwi.

go towards the front    i.e. at potlatch or a feast
taats’ xwa

go, go ,go
haay haay haay

goats beard (aruncus dioicus)
  • Gaada kidxaaw
  • Gaada kiihlxaaw
  • xuuya GaanGa

god of strength
daagwiiah sGaanaGwa

goes; where
  • gyinu
  • giinu
Giinu Guud hlt’alga? Where eagle nest?
T’aaGaaw gyinu hll chiina Gaaw hll tlaaGanang. Snowing when i fish i fiddle with.
K’inGad gyinu taaxid k’aasda Guu sguuGa gang ga. Spring go sockeye copper river all wriggle-swimming.

gogi rock – on the chart
styuu

going
  • iijang
  • isdyang
  • isgwang

going – s/he is going fishing
huu ll xaw indiiga

going (location, movement)
  • ’isdyaang (hing)
Giin gyu da ’isdyaang? Where are you going? ’Waadxanaay Gaaw hll ’isdyang?

going (must be used in a sentence)
indiiga

going along
kaadiiga

going along (large van or truck)
xal ts’aamsxyangdal

going along a bunch of people or birds
ganggingdal

going along i.e. a car
hlGaaxyang

going out the inlet on a power boat
xaal kaa Gwa

going out together
iisjaadang

going over there
  • ’waadsxwii
  • ’waadsxwii

going to
  • ahsang
  • Gasang
  • dyas ga
  • isGas.sa
  • xid.dyas
  • xidii xidii

going to be
  • dasga
  • aankaasa’aga

going to do something
isda Gas ga

going to get on
kaadll Gas ga

going to get something you all
hlin Guu

going towards (i.e. travel)
Gaaw

going  (used in a question)
  • kaaGang
  • kaagan
Giin gyu da kaaGan?

gold
  • guul
  • guulay

gold (lucky woman pee pot – word used for gold during the west coast gold rush on Haida Gwaii)
skil jaadaay chiigansk’an

gone
  • chiihll
  • gaaguu
  • gawdii
  • gawgii
  • gaw

gone (always gone)
gaw gwangs

gone (finish)
  • haayluu
  • hayluu

gone (something to love or want is gone)
sihlGaguudang

gone everybody
gawtl’Ga

gone for a long time
gaw jiinga

gone for a long time (literal – gone forever)
gaw sGaawnang

gone for a long time (one person)
jiing.nga ll gaw

gone for a long time (people)
jiing.nga ll gaw Guu

gone to sleep (more than one person)
k’aasdll

gone to sleep (one person)
k’aa dii

good
  • giida
  • ’laa

good – not good at something
isda k’al.la

good – pretty good
Guula

good (getting good at it)
  • isda Gaaya Gihldii
  • tll Gaaya Gihldii

good (getting good)
Gaay.ya Gihldii

good (little bit good)
aahlging

good (make you good at something)
gingGaay. ya

good (not good at anything)
stl’inggudGa

good (not good enough)
  • aahlging
  • ahlging

good (not so good)
  • aahlging
  • aahlging.ga

good (not very good, almost good)
’laa ahlging

good (something good is going to happen)
skal ’laa gang

good at doing everything
gina xan isda Gaay.ya

good at doing something
isda Gaay.ya

good at doing something
  • k’aala
  • sdaa Gaasgiida

good at it
  • iits’iila
  • iits’iilang

good at it
  • Gaay.ya
  • sl’inll
  • stl’inll

good friends house
hltaaxuulang ’laas naay

good morning! (really early) - literal: the weather is good this morning.
  • sing.Gaay ’laa
  • sangGaay ’laas
  • siinGadlnaay ’laa

good night
Gaal ’laa

good resters
daayxaan hla agan sahjaaw’ada Guu

good shot (sniper)
skaahll

good sign in your right shoulder
skal.laagang

good time (having a good time for the last time)
guudang.ngaay ’laa sk’idGa

goodbye (expression said when departing ones company)
  • kilslaay
  • kilsdlaay

goodness sake (a little mad)
iist’aay

good side – try to get on the good side of someone
kilgaat’as

goofy
sgaadii

goose (canada goose – branta canadensis)
hlgidGun

goose (said when you goose someone)
ts’uup

goose (snow goose)
xidid GaadaGaaga

goose barnacle (pollicipes polymerus)
tl’lk’yaaw

goose berry
hlgidGun Gaan

goose bumps
skaaxaw

gorge
tl’aadan

gorge on food
kl’aadGaadts’i

gossip
kaa’ang

got
dawxiidan

got on
kaadll gan

government ( literal – place/area-look after)
tllgaayga kaayts’id

government body
nang k’uula

gown (floating around in a beautiful long gown)
xidgaa xiid ga

gown (night gown)
k’aa hlk’idgyaa

grab
  • xaa Giid
  • xaaGad
  • xaahll - grab (hand pass by on someone)
  • xaa guuhla - grab and miss
  • xaaguuhl - grab and miss (slip through hand)
  • xaa tl’aay.ya - grab and take away with your hands
  • xaatl’l - grab someone to quiet them
  • xaa yahda - grab the right one
  • xaa yahda - grabbed
  • xaas guuda - grabbed and missed
  • xaajuu - grabbing

grab and try to pull up
hlkuuhll

grab hold of
giijaagiihlda

grain of wood
maats’alang

grandchild (man talk about)
t’aak’inGa

grandchild (woman talk about)
  • t’aak’inGa
  • t’aak’inGang

grandchildren (woman & man talk about)
t’aak’nGalang

grandfather
chiinang

grandfather (great grandfather)
chinGa chinGa kunGasda

grandfather (man talk about)
chinGa

grandfather (man talk to)
chinaay

grandfather (woman talk about)
chinGa

grandfather (woman talk to)
chinaay

grandfather few feathers
t’aaGuun xadju chinGa

grandfathers (woman & man talk about)
chinGalang

grandmother
naanang

grandmother (becoming a grandmother)
naan.naGa ga

grandmother (great grandmother)
naanGa naanGa kunGasda

grandmother (man talk about)
naanGa

grandmother (man talk to)
nanaay

grandmother (woman talk about)
naanGa

grandmother (woman talk to)
  • nanaay
  • naanaay

grandmothers (woman & man talk about)
naanGalang

grass
k’an tl’aakiida

grass (blade grass)
k’antl’lk’iidas

grass (can be a bird habitat)
kaanu

grass (general)
  • k’an
  • k’aanaay

grass (long grass), grass stalk used for catching maaluu
k’an chiijii

grasshopper
k’an Gaadkaadajing

grave house
  • saahlin.ngaay
  • saahlin.nga naay

grave house – top of gravehouse
saahling.un.nah

graveyard
  • hlGiiGwaadaan
  • hlGiiGwaadaanaay

graze (slide pass something or barely touching something)
chinhll

grease
taw

great
saa

great (feeling great as you move along)
kinhlGalgwang

great (good at doing something)
kaalagaasdlu

great (you’re great at anything)
dang sdaaGasgiida

great horned owl (bubo virginianus)
gudguuniis

great one
kinjuu

greatly/ very much
aawGaya

grebe (horned grebe – podiceps auritus)
  • gyuuGaadaGa
  • tsa.an tl’ants
  • tl’lnts’iGiid

greedy
sdaall

green
  • k’inhlGahl
  • k’inhlGal
  • Giinaw

green winged teal (anas crecca) & blue winged teal (anas discors)
chiiguuts’iiGid

greenling
kiijii

greeting (an expression of greeting)
haala kaats’ii

greeting word said to a high class person at the door, and then you sit that person down
tatsxwii tatsxwaa

grew up there
gidinas

grey
hlGaahl xyang

grey
xaas

grey
  • xaas
  • xaaja

grief (shattered by grief)
dii guudang.ngaay xuusda

grimace, grin (half assed phoney grin)
ts’iisGid

grimace (twisting smiling face)
tl’lGid

gristle from the nose of fish
  • hlkalGus
  • hlkillujii
  • hlkalGuujii
  • hlkal’uus

xuuajii
grizzly bear
xuuajii

grocery store
ga taa dah naay

groove i.e. tear a little strip of wood from a board
  • sk’aahll
  • sk’aahllGang
  • t’aahllGang

groove on bow of canoe used to put your spear line through
tluu k’aayhlln

ground (could also be bird habitat)
tllga

ground (ran a ground on a boat)
xaal k’uujuu gihl

ground line (fishing, setting ground line for fishing)
xiida sGaaGaaw

group of people
llGaayGalang

grouse (blue grouse – dendraganu obscurus)
skaw

grouse (spruce grouse)
hlk’inxa skaw.waay

grow (to grow plants/people, growing)
  • iinaasdll
  • iinasdll

grow tall/big
dllkunaGil ga

grow  i.e. a boil or a plant
k’awslaas

growl i.e. a dog growls
k’aaygang

grown
  • k’awga
  • k’aw

grudge
guudang.ngaay sk’apjuu

guess
  • ahlging
  • xuunda sgu

guess (i guess)
aahlging.ga

guess (to guess)
gud xuunda

guessed/guessing/ wondering
  • xuunda
  • xuunda ’la - guessing good
  • xuunda yahda - guessing right
  • xuunda yaada - guess right
  • xuunda GudGang - guessing wrong

guessing
  • xang.Ga
  • xuundadii

guitar
stl’ldamtl’lxaang

guitar player
stl’l damtl’ldang

gulley
tl’aadan

gully
  • tl’aada
  • tl’aadagaay

gulp (a big gulp of liquid)
gaawt’axid

gum bubble gum pitch
k’aas

gum boots
k’aas st’aas.sk’aagyah

gun
  • jiiguu
  • jiigwaay

gun – pop gun made out of elderberry bush – bullets for this gun were made from k’aay (kelp)
  • staay k’waada’u
  • staay k’waada’uu
  • staay k’waada’uu
  • staay k’wangda’uu

gun bullets
jiiguu hlGaay

gun fired
jiigwii k’aadal

gut (to gut a deer or fish)
sdlinsda

guts (fish guts)
stl’aanasdlaana

gutting
slliinsda

gutting a fish or deer
  • sdlinsda
  • sdlinsdadyas
  • sdlinst’a

gutting fish (finished gutting fish)
sdlinsdaaya

guy (little guy looking at me)
kyak’uujagid