1. common noun. true telling; story; history; teaching narrative; 'myth'
Ap'ap'axdu heelda adaawx. I remember lots of stories.
Heelda adaawg̱a ap'ap'axdu. I remember lots of history.
Adawxs Łgu Sgyen dm k'a yaatu. The story I'm going to tell you is about Little Pitch.
Cora Robinson, Hartley Bay, photo by Margaret Anderson, 1979.
2. intransitive verb. tell an oral history
Yagwa adawxs dz'i'is da k'am. Dz'i'is is telling us an adaawx.