Section A.1 Glossary of Wit’suwit’en Terms for Halht’ï’m Bï c’oldiw (Small Number) Stories
Created by: Gary George of the Wet’suwet’en Nation
Note: This glossary was compiled from several sources that include fluent speakers, draft dictionaries (1999), and First Voices online. One aspect with the Wit’suwit’en language is that one term can translate into a whole event or situation. The Small Number videos and this glossary serve as a guide of Wit’suwit’en language and are a “work in progress” and subject to modification.
- Ac’indinïnle
garden
- Ac’indinïnle wighinlï
he looks after the garden
- Adzit
outside
- bile
hand
- Bileggï
front claw; talon
- bilegh ‘enekh
help him/her
- bi’n
morning
- bincin
arm
- c’it’an co
cabbage
- c’ikwah
river/stream
- cyo
big
- dilggï
it’s gray
- D’ikuntikh lhic
wild dog
- Dzïn
day
- dzïtnits k’ëts / dzïtnïts’in
afternoon
- ’Ëlhidzïn
one day
- Ggikh
rabbit
- Halht’ï’m Bï c’oldiw
Small Number
- Honiyekh
vegetables
- lek’hët
palm of hand
- Lemidec
potato
- lhk’iy
one
- lhic
dog
- lhok
fish
- lidï
tea
- it’en
work
- lhtis
be strong
- Këkwin
chest/box
- këyikh
village
- Ma’
yes
- Nyen
accross
- yis
wolf
- sas co
carrot
- Sggïgit
eagle
- Si Sozï’
My name
- Sleg’iknekh
help
- Tabï
very
- tsa
beaver
- ts’an
totem pole
- tseghe c’inilhdus
curly hair
- Tobegh
beach
- t’alh
food
- Tsiz dedïnïnlïh
pack in firewood
- Tsiz lhtsë dïlhggïwh
chop the firewood
- Zil
yell / scream / holler