Hocąk Text — Hare Kills a Man with a Cane, Version 4
by Ken Funmaker, Sr.
recording read by George Stacy
transcribed and translated by Sheila Shigley
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| Rāgakąnąšgēga Wa’ųna Recording | Rāgakąnąšgēga Wa’ųna Recording Free of Background Noise |
Stylistic Features
| hapaxlegomena: bōwaixįnį, "blowing really hard";
hoicēkeja, "initially"; honuš’ak, "to be tired of" (< honįnuš’ak);
howagé (< ho-wage), "to speak"; jājē, "to have on, to wear" (< jājēra); kīšgą, "to hurt," as a variant of gišgą́;
mēžeesge, "because of";
wāxre (< wāxrexjį), "to be skinny".
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| rare words: -kšjene instead of -kjene; hijąhīžą, "[an]other"; rōkąną
as an exclamation ("oh my");
žeežegų, "that".
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| Funmaker uses the clause terminator -že only twice.
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| the /ą/ of the declarative -ną is generally dropped or nearly inaudible in Stacy's reading.
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| Rāgakąnąšgēga Wa’ųna |
| Ant Happenings |
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| Hagoreižą, | wōrak | hižą́ | horákirešų́nųną. | Hō, | žee | wagairešųnųn'. |
| Once upon a time, | story | a | they used to tell. | Hō, | this | it is what they would say. |
| RW 00:03.9-00:10.3 | ||||||
| Wikirixetexjį̄ža, | hąkikisgepįnį̄neną. | Wanóicge | hijąnerašge | hąké |
| A very big insect | no one could match. | Animals | all the others | not |
| RW 00:11.2-00:19.8 | ||||
| hiyusų́c | hiranįšųnųną, | ną̄kewēgege, | ēsge | žee | wairešųnųną. |
| near | they did not come, | because he was so scary, | that’s why | that | they used to say. |
| RW 00:18.8-00:28.1 | |||||
| Xēižą | ēja | mį̄nąki, | ną̄kēja | cīže, | aireną. | Rāgakąnąšgēga | ēja |
| A hill | there | there was, | behind | he lived, | they said. | Rāgakąnąšgēga | there |
| RW 00:28.8-00:37.9 | |||||||
| cīže | aireną. | Rōra | xetexjįže | higairešųnųn'. | Pīkąna | ēgų, |
| he lived, | they said. | His body | it was real big, | they called it. | His waist | [that way], |
| RW 00:28.8-00:37.9 | ||||||
| wāxrexjį | nį̄sge, | aireną. | Hagoreižą, | ēja | howeųą̄ki, |
| it was so skinny | it seemed like,* | they said. | At that time, | [there] | while roaming around, |
| RW 00:51.2-01:00.1 | |||||
* the translation adds, "it would break."
| Wašjįgega | ēja | hikipajīnąkają, | Wašjįgega, | ēgų | mą̄-ą̄-ą̄šjąxjį |
| Hare | then | then he ran into, | Hare | then | real hard |
| RW 01:00.7-01:09.2 | |||||
| pīkąįja | howeǧų́ | jīregająereną. | "Hwhhhhhhhh, | hwhhhhhhh." | Hąké |
| on his waist | blowing | he started. | "Hwhhhhhhhh, | hwhhhhhhh." | Not |
| RW 01:09.6-01:17.7 | |||||
| wažą | gišgąnįną. | Hegų | ēja, | wīkerekja’ų, | ną̄ | xeteížą |
| [anything] | it did not hurt. | Right then | [there,] | standing still, | log | a big one |
| RW 01:17.7-01:24 | ||||||
| harušąnąįnen'. | Ēja | t’ēhīreną. | Hoicēkeja, | pīką | howiwiseja, |
| it was dropped on him. | [There] | he was killed. | Initially, | waist | where it was really skinny, |
| RW 01:25.3-01:47.1 | |||||
| mą̄šjąxjį | ēgų | howeǧųanąga, | bōwaixįnį | hire | wa’ųgająereną. |
| really hard | [that] | he blew, and | blowing really hard | [it was done] | he did it. |
| RW 01:47.9-01:53..5 | |||||
| Nųnįge, | hąké | ēsganįną. | Mēžēsge | Rāgakąnąšgējēga | hī | jēgi, |
| But, | not | it did not happen. | Because of | Ant | to do | he was, |
| RW 01:54.4-02:04.9 | ||||||
| ēsge, | howe–honį̄ja | oireną.* | Hagoreižąšge | waíreną, |
| [therefore,] | trying to hunt him | he went around. | In those times | they said, |
| RW 02:05.1-02:13.3 | ||||
* for hoireną, the /h/ lost to external sandhi.
| Hų̄wąga | hereanąga | wanóicge | hijąhīžą, | ējowe | mą̄nįną̄k’ų, |
| Elk | [there was, and] | animals | other, | where | they were roaming, |
| RW 02:15.1-02:22.4 | |||||
| ną̄xaxeteižą | wārušąnąįneanąga, | t’ēwahireną, | aireną. |
| a big log | it would be dropped on them, and | killing them, | they say. |
| RW 02.23.8-02.32.8 | |||
| Hō, | žee | wat’ehijēga, | ųsge, | higairešųnųną, | "Rāgakąnąšgēga." |
| So, | that | the killer, | well, | he was [always] called, | Rāgakąnąšgega. |
| RW 02:37.0-02:46.1 | |||||
| Hoxatáp | ēja | haną̄c | ną̄kawairešųnųną. | Hegų | ēja | hereną, |
| Woods | there | all | they were afraid of him. | Then | [there] | [it was,] |
| RW 02:50.0-03:00.2 | ||||||
| hoxatapnąka | ēja, | hirasa, | Wašjįgega | higairera, | cīną. | Hikoroke |
| in the forest | there, | [within,] | "Hare" | as he was called, | he lived. | Grandmother |
| RW 03:01.4-03:16.2 | ||||||
| hīra | ēja | hakaraikižu | cīną, | howairešųnųną. | Rāgakąnąšgējēga, |
| [being] | there | together | he lived, | as they used to tell it. | Ant |
| RW 03:16.1-03:25.2 | |||||
| hąkīperesnįną, | Wašjįgega, | hirasa | ēja | cījegi, | hoxatapnąka | ēja. |
| he didn't know, | Hare, | [within] | there | if he was living, | that woods | there. |
| RW 03:26.2-03:37.3 | ||||||
| Hagoreižą, | hō, | žee | Wašjįgega | hikinų́ | eoginąkšąną, | hįge, | Rāgakąnąšgē |
| One day, | hō, | here | Hare | accidentally | he went through there, | [he did] | Ant |
| RW 03:39.8-03:51.4 | |||||||
| mōwagax | hanįgi. | Woíraki, | hąké | ēsge | karakjąp(n)įną̄k’ų, |
| territorial boundary | he went through. | Suddenly, | not | [thus] | without him suspecting it, |
| RW 03:51.8-04:01.6 | |||||
| ną̄xaxeteižą | hašipraireną. | Hō, | žee | Wašjįgega | hižą́ | hikoroke | hījēgi, |
| a big log | it was dropped on him. | Well, | [this one] | Hare | one | grandma | [he stood] |
| RW 04:02.7-04:15.0 | |||||||
| hakaraíkici | cīją | oiregi, | hiperesąną, | nįgé | wažą | kīšgągi. |
| to live with her | [where] | [as they came,] | she knew | someplace | something | he had gotten hurt. |
| RW 04:17.1-04:26.0 | ||||||
| Ēsge, | hokaranį̄neną. | Hitokeįkjēga, | žee | hiperesąkšąn’. | Hō, | žee, |
| So, | she went looking for him. | That little old lady, | that | she knew. | So, | [this one] |
| RW 04:27.1-04:38.0 | ||||||
| Rāgakąnąšgēga | wažą | žeesge | hīšųnųs’agi, | ēsge, | hokit’a |
| Ant | things | things like that | he habitually did, | [so] | to talk to him |
| RW 04:38.1-04:47.0 | |||||
| hīną. | Hą̄ | ēja | ną̄xgųn', | Wašjįgega, | hošišik |
| she did. | Yes, | [there] | she knew,* | Hare | bad time |
| RW 04:47.0-04:54.2 | |||||
* or, "heard, understood."
| howera. | Hą̄, | wōrak | me’e, | jānąga | ēgi | tācre, | žee | haną̄c |
| he had gone through. | [Yes,] | story | this, | all | [here] | I named, | [these] | all of them |
| RW 04:54.2-05:05.3 | ||||||||
| wōwakącągᵉra | hakaranį̄neną. | Hą̄, | ēsge, | mōšgacra | ēgi | wōgiwat’ek |
| magical powers | they owned them. | Yes, | so, | traveling the earth | [and] | to be real easy for them |
| RW 05:06.3-05:17.9 | ||||||
| hirešųnųną. | Wōrak | ēja, | wōrak | hirega, | hą̄ | ēgi | hitokeįkjēga | wajeižą |
| [it would be.] | Story | that | to tell it | when they would, | yes | [and] | that old lady | a skirt |
| RW 05:17.9-05:33.4 | ||||||||
| jājēra, | wą̄krohokuru’ąnąga, | mą̄’akįnąka | hoginą́k | rēhiną, | hicųšge |
| she had on, | she lifted it up, and | the whole earth* | she traveled | [she went quickly,] | grandson |
| RW 05:33.3-05.:45.0 | |||||
* the translation adds, "from horizon to horizon."
| hīra, | hokaranį | wa’ųną. | Hagoreižą, | hik’įgianąga, | Rāgakąnąšgēga |
| [she was going,] | looking | [she was doing it.] | At that time | he's given up, and | Ant |
| RW 05.44.8-06.02.6 | |||||
| hirahiną. | Hajakąnąkgi, | wagéną: | "Cų̄šgeįgra | hįgixawanįge, | hiranįjįną. |
| to confront. | As soon as she saw him, | she said: | "My grandson | because he is lost, | I've come here. |
| RW 06:03.3-06:18.1 | |||||
| Koreisgeišge | hiranįjigi, | hawenį̄gųnį | yārege, | ē | waginąkšąną." |
| [Perhaps to see you]* | if I came, | he wouldn't bother you | I am thinking, | that's why | I thought to ask you." |
| RW 06:19.7-06:34.1 | |||||
* uncertain translation.
| "Kote-e-e, | Hiwąge! | Hicųšgeįgrāga | hocįcį̄g | jāsgexjįižą | here? | Xųnųnįk, |
| "Kote-e-e, | sister-in-law! | Your little grandson | boy | how big a one | he is? | Little one |
| RW 06:37.5-06:49.2 | ||||||
| nįgeišge | wą̄k | xeteižą | here?" | "Ka’, | xųnųnįkšąną." | "Hą̄, | ēgi | hoxjąnąne | hižą́ |
| or | man | a large | he was?" | "No, | just a small one." | "Oh yes, | well | last evening | one |
| RW 06.49.8-07.02.5 | |||||||||
| t’ē | hāra | xųnųnį́k | hižą̨́, | hąké | tūc | pį̄nįną. | Ēsge | nįgé | wāt’ųtēną. |
| I killed | the hide | small | one, | not | to cook | it was not good. | So | somewhere | I threw it. |
| RW 07:03.5-07:13.6 | |||||||||
| Kōreisgeišge | ē | wāgi’ųgųnį." | Hą̄, | ēsge, | hitokeįkjēga | hotoǧoiceną. |
| [Incredibly also] | him | perhaps to do it." | Yes, | like that, | that little elderly lady | she would see. |
| RW 07:14.8-07:28.7 | ||||||
| Hą̄, | tee, | cų̄šgera | ējākšąną. | "Rōkąną-ą-ą!* | Hą̄, | ē | wanįyą |
| Yes, | [this one] | grandson | he was lying there. | "Oh no-o-o-o! | Yes, | he | [something] |
| RW 07:30.0-07:40.6 | |||||||
* the recording at 07:34 has Hą̄, Koté, an expression only uttered by males. Since the speaker is a grandmother, this expression has been replaced by one appropriate to females.
| ha’ųxjįąjera, | ēgi | ākną̄gųnįn'.* | Waną-ą-ą! | Jāsge | hīregi, | cų̄šgeįgra |
| I was working so hard, | there | that must be him lying. | Waną-ą-ą! | However | he was, | her little grandson |
| RW 07:40.2-07:57.4 | ||||||
* < hākną̄gųnįną, a back clip with the initial /h/ lost from external sandhi.
| kuru’ąnąga | nį̄kére | jīreną, | "Hicųšgeįk | hāxjį̄-į̄! | Nąįzixjį |
| she lifted up, and | to speak lovingly | she began, | "Little grandson | my deare-est! | [Right about now] |
| RW 07:57.3-08:11.1 | |||||
| hikįanąga | wōrera | hižą́ | ų̄ | pį̄ranįn'." | Hokarakit’ānąga |
| [he is awake, and] | work | a | to do | it is better." | She talked to him, and |
| RW 08:11.5-08:21.7 | |||||
| mą́įja | girušjąrēhįn'. | Hą̄, | kēnį | mą́įja | kirijenį, | nį̄’ąp |
| on to the ground | she released him. | Hą̄, | before | the ground | [before he landed] | life |
| RW 08:21.8-08:33.4 | ||||||
| kirejeną. | "Gāga! | Ēgi | hanąnąk | oireną,* | nųnįgé, | hįšuruxįkjera!" |
| he came back to. | "Grandma! | Here | I sleep | I wished to continue, | but | you've woken me up!" |
| RW 08:33.4-08:44.8 | ||||||
* < hoireną, the /h/ having been lost to external sandhi.
| "Hąka’, | Rāgakąnąšgēga | t’ēnį̄ | gajēreną, | ēsge | honįnįajįną." |
| "No, | [Ant] | to kill you* | [thus ?], | that's why | I came hunting for you." |
| RW 08:47.6-08:55.5 | |||||
* make you dead.
| "Cōká | Xēamąnį́ga | honįnuš’ak | jīkerege | t’ēnį̄ną, | hoxjąnąne." |
| "Grandpa | Walks-on-the-Hill | to be tired of you | he became | he killed you, | yesterday evening." |
| RW 08:57.0-09:06.5 | |||||
| "Hą̄hą’o-o-o, | hisgeašeno-o-o. | Hēsge | hīs’are." | "Hą̄, | hakarakjekjeną, |
| "Ye-e-e-s-s-s, | you are ri-i-ight.* | That's what | he must have done." | "Alright, | I'll get revenge, |
| RW 09:08.1-09:19.8 | |||||
* you're speaking the truth.
| hą̄, | yā’egi." | Hēgų, | hakarairen’. | Hąįnįgają, | Wašjįgega |
| yes, | when I find him." | And so, | they went home. | In the morning, | Hare |
| RW 09:21.4-09:34.7 | |||||
| mōžejąną | howaren'. | Ēja | hī, | wāzi | š’āk | hižą́, |
| the ends of the earth | he went to. | There | going, | pine tree | ancient | a, |
| RW 09:36.4-09:43.8 | ||||||
| howagéną. | "Hųnįtušoroicceną. | Ēgi | hironįgųkjeneną. |
| he spoke. | "I’m going to pull you out by the roots. | And | I have something I will want from you. |
| RW 09:44.27-09:52.7 | |||
| Hą̄ | tūšjągi, | higi | nį̄kere | hajikšjeną."* | Hą̄, | žee ? | ēgų |
| And | when I'm finished, | here | to bring you | I will bring you back." | So, | that | [well] |
| RW 09:54.5-10:02.3 | |||||||
* some speakers say -kšjene instead of -kjene.
| hiąnąga, | Rāgakąnąšgēga | honįnēną.* | Nįge | xeižą | ēja |
| he did that, and | Ant | he went hunting. | [A certain] | a hill | there |
| RW 10:02.26-10:15.34 | |||||
* < honį r̨ēną.
| nįgé | hoixgą | jēga | ēja | hianąga, | nįgé |
| place | where he hangs around | [that one] | there | he went, and | somewhere |
| RW 10:17.7-10:23.6 | |||||
| hajakšjenera | hiperessąną. | Hegų | cēk | xēnąka | hotiregi, | ną̄xaxetera |
| he would see him | he knew. | Well | first | that hill | when he climbed, | the big log |
| RW 10:23.4-10:34.5 | ||||||
| hakawa’ą | wa’ųą̄ki, | xē | sawanįkeja | higųąna | hižą́ | mą̄ra |
| he carried | [when he did it,] | hill | on the other side | right away | someone | the ground |
| RW 10:35.2-10:46.0 | ||||||
| giksųc | jīreną. | Wašjįgega | higųąną | hiperessąną, | pēže | wa’ųną. | Hegų |
| to shake | he started. | Hare | right away | he knew, | who | it was. | So |
| RW 10:46.4-10:59.0 | |||||||
| sānįk | hacį̄jaxjį | ną̄wą | jīrehigi | ē | cāwéną. | Hegų |
| other side | exactly where | song | where he had started | he | he headed there. | Then |
| RW 10:58.9-11:11.5 | ||||||
| hikipá | mą̄nį | wa’ųąkšąną. | Hegų, | hirasa, | mą̄nį, | mą̄šjąxjį | hojį |
| towards | to walk | he did it. | And, | he too | he walked, | real hard | he too |
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| wa’ųą̄kšąną. | Wašjįgega | ną̄ǧireāk | nųnįgé, | hija | rahéną. |
| he was also doing it. | Hare | he was afraid | but | there | he was going |
| RW 11:31.9-11:39.6 | |||||
| Hinųwįke | ną̄wąxete | ēgi | žige | waši | wa’ųną̄kšąną. | Jagú |
| The two of them | singing loudly | and | [again] | to dance | [they were doing it.] | So |
| RW 11:41.3-11:49.5 | ||||||
| Rakąnąšgējēga | hereanąga, | Wašjįgega, | hinųwįke | mą̄-ą̄šjąxjį | egų | wąįnešųnųną. |
| Ant | [he was, and] | Hare, | the two of them | rea-ally loud | and | they hollered. |
| RW 11:49.5-11:59.6 | ||||||
| "Kora-a-a, | GWA-A!" | Ēgi | žige, | [hace ?]* | hākja, | "Korā-ā, | GWA-A!" | Hegų | hinųwįke |
| "Kora-a-a, | GWA-A!" | And | again, | [terrible] | in return, | "Korā-ā, | GWA-A!" | Then | the two of them |
| RW 12:00.7-12:19.0 | |||||||||
* perhaps, hącé. See hacéxjį, "vicious." See ce, "to be selfish, difficult, costly, vicious, wild; revenge" (Marino).
| haruxé | āšgeki* | harahaireną. | Žige | mą̄ąšjąxjį | ną̄xara | mą́įja |
| in return | getting closer | they went. | Again | rea-a-al hard | the logs | on the ground |
| RW 12.19.4-12.26.6 | ||||||
* āšgekį?
| wīrojį̄nešųnųną. | "Hya-a-a-ap! | Hya-a-a-ap!" | Hegų* | hacąge-e-e-eraxjįk |
| they were hitting. | "Hya-a-a-ap! | Hya-a-a-ap!" | Then | ju-u-ust barely |
| RW 12:26.6-12:39.6 | ||||
* in the recording, there is a pause, and Stacy resumes with hegų again.
| kīgąžirešųnųną.* | Wašjįgega, | ų̄ja’ų, | hacį̄jaxjį | ų̄jegi |
| they missed each other. | Hare | as he continued, | wherever exactly | he [Ant] was, |
| RW 12:40.0-12:49.1 | ||||
* or kīgąširešųnųną.
| ēsge | mą̄-ą̄šjąxjį | ną̄xara | ējaxjį | hirokarājįna. | Hya-a-a-a-ap!! | Woíraki, |
| then | rea-ally hard | the log | exactly | he would hit. | Hya-a-a-a-ap!! | Unexpectedly, |
| RW 12:49.1-12:59.8 | ||||||
| Rāgakąnąšgēga* | t’ēną. | Hegų | gi’i’i† | ną̄žįną. | Ŭceja | hihiną́p |
| Ant | he killed. | Then | scattering | they stood. | Out of his guts‡ | coming |
| RW 13:00.5-13:11.2 | ||||||
* in the recording, Stacy studders this word.
† probably gi’e’e.
‡ or "out of his stomach".
| wa’ųną̄kšąną. | Gāga, | wapakąnąka | wēną, | "Rōkąną-ą-ą-ą! | Hicųšgeįgra | Cōkaga |
| they were. | Grandma | magically* | wailed, | "Oh my-y-y! | My little grandson | grandpa |
| RW 13:11.2-13:25.8 | ||||||
* this word is usually translated as, "cleverly, smartly, astutely."
| t’ēhigųnį-į-į-į!" | Hą̄ | ēgi, | žeežegų | hianąga, | Rāgakąnąšgēga |
| you must have ki-i-i-i-lled!" | So | then, | that | after he did, | Ant |
| RW 13:26.0-13:34.4 | |||||
| wagéną, | "Me’egi | wanóicge | t’ērārajāne, | honįgiš’ikšųnųn'. | Ēsge |
| he said to him, | "These here | animals | you were killing, | I didn't like it. | That's why |
| RW 13:34.5-13:44.5 | |||||
| mee | wanįgi’ųn, | hąkīnųbąhą | wat’eranįkjeneheną." | "Hą̄ | egi |
| this | I did it, | [not a second time]* | you would never kill them." | "Yes, | and |
| RW 13:44.5-13:55.1 | |||||
* the translation has, "never again."
| gāgųnehikjenera, | wikiri | xųnųnįk ną̄kre | ēpa | wanąjwająįšge |
| [like this you will be,] | bugs | [these little ones] | hereafter | helplessly* |
| RW 13:56.0-14.:05.5 | ||||
* or, "... pitifully."
| howe | hanįhairekšeneną." | Hą̄, | Wašjįgega | žee | rušjąge, |
| to be going around | they will." | And | Hare, | then | when he was finished, |
| RW 14:06.0-14:14.3 | |||||
| wēną, | "Hą̄, | Ną̄xaxetero, | wōrera | horakaraišipšąną." | "Hacį̄ja | hųnįtuzᵉra,* |
| he said, | "Hą̄, | Big Log, | your work | you have finished." | "Where | I got you from, |
| RW 14:14.6-14:26.6 | ||||||
* or hųnįtusra.
| ēja | nįkere | tēkjeną." | "Pį̄xjįnągigino-o-o!" |
| there | to take you back | I shall go." | "You have done a ve-e-ery good thing for me!" |
| RW 14:26.8-14:31.9 | |||
Source:
Ken Funmaker, Sr., "Rāgakąnąšgēga Wa’ųna" ("Ant's Happenings"). The recording of Funmaker's manuscript was made by George Stacy and recorded by Sheila Shigley (Mauston, Wisconsin: Hoocąk Waaziijaci Language & Culture Program headquarters, ca. 1995): 00:03.9-14:31.9. Concerning Funmaker's MS, Lorraine Carrimon provided proofreading and corrections to some flaws in the text; and Sheila Shigley provided some additional fixes of typos, etc.