1 T“RZ“NA KAZA, T“MAKU D“K “BJL“M (T”rz”na Gabade, pages 10 ...

019 Kaza yi d” wunyatkla gai, t”maku yi d” wunyatk”la gai,
”bjl”m yi d” wunyatk”la gai.
The hen had her one daughter, the sheep had her one daughter, the hyena
had her one daughter.
020 Aksi a luwai aksi a luwai ni, nda ta wani kaza mama, They were farming and farming, and one sent the chicken saying,
021 ìA ji maduwa za, ka d”igwa uktlingwa.î “Go home and give water to our children.”
022 Kaza ta tlai. The hen arose.
023 Kaza dawo a, ika mamatk”la ni, When the hen came and (the chick) saw her mother,
024 ìDada, Dada, Dada, Dada! Na z”nig”m bi, na z”nig”m kani bi? [Western dialect] “Momma, momma, momma, momma! Might I tell
you, might I tell you mine [my view of things]?
025 Ago t”maku tagvi ”zg”r”n dago ”bjlam”n kumus, kumus!î On the one hand, the sheep has fallen on a foot, on the other the hyena is
going crunch crunch. [There must be an idiom here. The intention
clearly is to note that the hyena is showing evil intentions with respect to
the sheep, but we know that nothing has (yet) happened to the sheep.]
026 ìAaa! Gwa tla gwa nagwa! Gwa tla gwanagwa!î “Ah! Let’s get up and get out of here ! Let’s get up and get out of here!”
027 Aksi ta tli ta lawinksi. They arose and ran away.
028 T”maku d”k ”bjl”m a luwai a luwai, The sheep and the hyena were farming and farming.
029 aksi aiku s”ryuwwa, kwa aksi ta tlai, t”maku ta nai kumayi. When they heard nothing [when they saw silence], again they arose and
the sheep came.
030 Kum atu t”maku dawo za, ika mamatk”la yoa, When the sheep came and (the lamb) saw her mother,
031 ìDada, Dada, Dada, Dada! “Momma, momma, momma, momma!
032 Dada, na z”neg”m bi, n” z”neg”m kani bi? Dada, might I tell you, might I tell you, might I tell you mine?
033 Kanik wunyatk”m bi? Mine [my view of things] of your daughter?
034 Ago t”maku tagvi ”zg”r”n kago ”bjl”m kumus, kumus!î (see line 025)
035 ìAaa! Gwa tla gwanagwa!î “Ah! Let’s get up and get out of here!”
036 Wuci nda talmidu ”bjl”m damala. So the hyena was left in the bush by herself.
037 “bjl”m a luwai a luwai ta batidu t”nna, atu tatlai. The hyena was farming and farming, and (when) she had enough of it,
she arose.
038 Atu dawo yoa, tasu ndau bai, lawanaksi. When she came back, she didn’t find the others, they had run off.
039 Atu yi ta gafi wunyatk”la tatfinale pata. She grabbed her daughter and they went off into the bush.
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