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(1.15) Linguistic Notes
1. dásí 'ákaa 'ináázhóółtíͅgo means, literally,
'just as she had put him away again there'. 'There' refers to the hole under
the fire. dásí 'just, exactly' [part.];
ákaa 'there' [demonst.]; 'ináázhóółtíͅ, 3a person perfective mode of
'i-náá-...[hi- perf.]-l-tee 'to put an
animate object away again' [act. tr.]. See notes 1.11, §5 and 1.12, §8.
2. kaanáánádzáná'a he had come to her again'.
Third person perfective mode of Oaa-nááná-,,,[ni- perf.]-dá 'one person
comes again to someone' [act. intr.]. -dá is
the -d- form of the theme -yá 'one moves'. The
prefix nááná- 'again' requires the -d- form of
the theme -yá. Since this theme 'one moves' is
so irregular in stem form, it may be useful to list the stems.
| Mode |
Zero classifier |
|
|
-d-class |
| |
Sg. 1 |
Sg. 2 |
Sg. 3 |
|
| Imperf. |
-shá
|
-
ndá
|
-ghá
|
-dá
|
| Perf. |
-yá
|
-yá
|
-yá
|
-dzá
|
| Prog. |
-shááł
|
-ndááł
|
-gááł
|
-dááł
|
| Iter. |
-dá
|
-dá
|
-dá
|
-dá
|
| Opt. |
-sha' |
-nda' |
-ya' |
-dza' |
3. 'áiłndíná'a 'he
spoke thus to her, it is said'. Third person imperfective mode of 'á-0ł-di-...[hi-
perf.]-ndí 'to
speak thus to someone' [act. intr.]. 'á-
'thus, so'; ł- 'with, to'; di- a prefix used
with verbs of speaking etc. di- drops out in the third person sometimes
causing the pronoun yi- [in this form, reduced to -i-] to lengthen its vowel
['áyiiłndí].
See note 1.16, §7.
4. ''ádíídíí 'these'. This is apparently the
demonstrative stem di- plus the relative enclitic -í reduplicated and with the proclitic 'á-. Reduplication is very rare in Chiricahua, this form and
dídíń 'these [referring to persons]' being
the only examples.
5. 'iyádí' 'what'. Interrogative stem 'iyádí plus the relative enclitic -í.
6. bich''iyoołkaͅaͅni 'something good to
eat'.An unanalyzable noun used, according to the informant, only in myths
having to do with the Giant.
7. koyá 'here'. ko-, demonstrative stem, plus
the postposition -yá. ko- refers to places
within the neighborhood of the speaker and listener and is probably best
translated by the English 'hereabout, thereabout'.
8. bikék'e 'his tracks'. The compound -kék'e 'trail, tracks' with the third person
possessive pronoun. See note 1.14, §5. Note that this sentence also lacks a
verb--see note 1.14, §1.
9. goołndíná'a 'he
said to her, it is said'. Third person imperfective mode ndí 'he says' [see
note 1.6, §7] prefixed by the 3a object pronoun go- referring to White
Painted Woman and the postposition ł- 'with,
to'. go- is lengthened to compensate for the loss of the prefix di-; cf.
gołdishndí 'I
said to her'. See also §3, this note.
The verb 'to say' requires the prefix 'á-
'thus, so' [see §3] except when it is preceded by a quotation.
