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The Child of Water, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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1. The Child of Water as told by Lawrence Mithlo
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Soon Child of the Water became able to walk around.

(1.13)[13]
K'adi Tóbájiishchinéń naaghá silíͅná'a
Soon Child of the Water became able to walk around.
 
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(1.13) Linguistic Notes

1. kadi 'now, soon' [part.].

2. naaghá silíͅná'a 'he became able to walk, it is said'. naaghá 'he walks about here and there' [see note 1.6, §1]: silíͅ, thirdperson perfective mode of -laa 'to become' [act. intr.].

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