'Iipay Aa
hellyaa wesaaw
English: Translation
lunar eclipse, eclipse of the moon, it eats the moon
Part of Speech
sentence
Semantic Domain
Universe and the natural world
Notes

Hellyaa "the moon"

Wesaaw (wesuw) "eats"

Mesa Grande dictionary: "lit. he (Coyote) ate up the moon."

Note that hellyaa is the object of the verb, not the subject, as it is in bare form and not marked with the nominative suffix -ch. Hellyaa is being eaten, it is not the hellyaa eating anything.