Hocąk Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 6

narrated by Reuben David St. Cyr
interlinear translation by James Owen Dorsey

English Translation

 

p. 9 —
Žegí
ciséreciyañk*
škúni.
Wátexúga
hisúñkwahira
There (once upon a time)
one long lodge [lay]
perhaps.
Watexuga
he found his brothers
*the text reads, ci-sérec iyáñk, and is translated as, "lodge \ long \ one \ the lg. ob. (?) \". The question mark is in the text. The expression, "lg. ob." should stand for "large object". For the form and translation that I have given it, see the note to wakárakiciyáñk directly below, and cf. sérecį, a synonym of sérec.

 

 

p. 10 —
wakárakiciyáñk*
škúni.
Hą́pga
nañkíkarará
ų
he dwelt with them, his own, the recl[ining] one (?)
perhaps.
Every day
the hunting the game
doing it
*the text has wakárakici yáñk škúni. Dorsey says, however, "Perhaps instead of [this] we should read: — wakarakici añk škuni, in which case, añk = añka = hañka, the recl. one" (notes: 9-10). This is the reading that I have given it.

 

 

náñks'á
škúni.
Naxí xúnuxcínigira
šána
hiñké
they moved regularly
perhaps.
fifth or youngest son
only
not

 

 

hinís'a.
Égi
Wátexúga
hisúñkwahirá
hákoréža
he walked there not repeatedly.
Then
Watexuga*
the brothers he had
at one time in the remote past
*"Wátexúga ... could not be explained by Reuben [St. Cyr] and Philip [Longtail]." — Dorsey, note p. 10.

 

 

wawagé
škúniže.
Hísuñk
híciwiná.
Nañkíkarará
he said to them
perhaps.
His brothers
they dwelt with him. (?)*
The hunting the game
*the parenthetical question mark is in the text.

 

 

caské
wagipį́*
ų́wią́je
...
how
he liked it
[do]*
...
*there is no translation for this word in the MS.

 

Source:

Reuben David St. Cyr, with interlinear translation by James Owen Dorsey, 4800 Dorsey Papers: Winnebago 3.3.2 (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, 1886) under "Notes", 9-10.