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Northern Yukaghir sentences

Introduction

Whenever I feel like it, I'm going to add Northern Yukaghir sentences with their English translation here.

Sentences

Тадаат, тудэ вэрвэ пэлиэлэк мэр өрньэй: «Малаак, тит чамадалдьэ мэ йабай!»

• Then, as much as he could, he shouted: “Come on, your king is dead!”

Митэйк тудэ дитэ, амаа дитэ, эгуриэйэли.

• We, too, like him, like our father, began to walk.

Эл ньалльэньилҕанэ, охоль тэтха йоходилэ ҥотэй.

• If you have no sin, he will become your horse for all time.

Тэт оорчил, тэт өрчил, мэт нэмэ ҥоллэн эл аҕай!

• Your comments and shouting didn’t hurt me at all!

Эвдьуо чамуолэл паадьэдуоги эвльикиэльэдаҕа уоги эл аҕуот монур маархан волмэк мэнчиэльэлҥумлэ.

• When (my) aunt’s eldest daughter died, fearing that her children would not hold on (survive), they called a shaman.

Чуоҕаймэдэ илэ эврэл, хадаа льэлги йавнэр курульуолҕан монур чумун льитэркэҕа ньумудьиэнунҥи.

• In the spring, a tent was placed on the top of the hill to see the herd.

Мэ ваавачэдаруучий мэтинь.

• He tries to speak Russian to me.

Моннунҥи, вадун лаамэк льиэнунул. Тороньэй лаамэ ҥолнулльэньь, йуодииги мэ ньааваанулльэнь.

• They say there was a Yukaghir husky. It was black, it had white eyes.

Вальҕандэд-угурчэдэҕа эгуой, көнмэгисчэ угурчэдэҕанэ мэ мэдьим.

• He stepped on one of her feet and grabbed the other.

Мэт лайбуо сукунмольҕалги вальҕарумкуруонь.

• My youngest is nine years old.

Монҥи: “Угунэҥ мит эмдьэ митханэ йабалҕат эдьитэм.”

• They said: „It’s good that our younger brother saved us from death”

Ык, тэтинь модьэҥ, йэкуук! — мондэҥ ирньэй толиилэк сэрбэдамундаҕан вэйм.

• Hey! "I tell you, stay away from me!" - having said, he hit him on the shoulder blade with a fork-shaped stick.

Чапиэн-пэлдудиэ мэ йабаанульэнь. Тудэ волмэ ҥол амааҕанэ өгэтиэльэлум, таатльэр «мэт йавулҕанэ йатаҕарэйҕан» мондэҥ оондьаальэнь.

• Old man Chapien was dying. He chose his father as his shaman [one who guides the dying person to another world through shamanic rituals], and therefore asked him to come "to make him the path to that world."

Адуги йатах бандьэ көдэк, нэмэ ҥоллэҥ аҕидьирэҥ эл моннун.

• This one is a straightforward, honest man, he doesn’t say anything in secret.

Ходэйҕа, охоль йаудьинуни.

• Oh, how unpleasant, he's angry all the time.

Таҥ пайпэҥ охоль таҕ көллэ чуҥрэҥориинунум, охоль тудинь йахтаануни.

• This woman constantly thought about this man, she constantly sang songs about him.

Таҥ йахтэлэ йахтэмлэ.

• She sang that [famous] song.

Адуҥ паадьэдуо амутнэҥ йахтэбуонь, хуодиик хааличэ йахтийаа ҥолаатэй

• This girl loves to sing (she sings often), she will probably become a strong (famous) singer.

Мэтханэ ваай мэ йахтэсум.

• He made me sing too.

Хавдьидиэ ваай йиэлгидаҕа хуодиик келтэй.

• Uncle will probably come the day after tomorrow too.

Мэт акаапул йукуолдэҥ эвльикиэҥи.

• My older brothers died when they were little.

Мэт йукуочиийэҥ, йукуонь тудэл ваай. Мэтхат мэ лугиэльэлтэй.

• I was young, he was small too. He was probably a little older than me.

Титэйк тит курильиил мэтинь кисэник.

• You too, show me your knowledge.

Source

• Kurilov, Гаврил (2001) Юкагирско-русский словарь, Novosibirsk: Nauka