Just then he saw also those blankets of the baby that were [smeared] with
excrement.
(1.19)[19]
`Áshíͅ `áłchinéń bich'idenáhí chaͅaͅná'át'égo
kaanááyiiłtsáͅná'a:
"'Iyáahee díídíí? Ch'iyoołkaͅaͅ koyá
bichaͅaͅne!"
goołndíná'a.
Just then he saw also those blankets of the baby that were [smeared] with
excrement.
"What are these? Here [is] the excrement of something good to eat!"
he
said to her.
[_]
(1.19) Linguistic Notes
1. bich'idenáhí 'those blankets of his'.
ch'ide 'blanket'; bi- third person
possessive; -náhí apparently a demonstrative
enclitic. It is possible, however, that I misheard - náhí for - náí, the emphatic
enclitic -ná plus the relative -í.
2. cháͅáͅná'át'égo 'they, being so [with]
excrement'. cháͅáͅ 'excrement'; -ná emphatic enclitic; 'át'é, third person of 'to be so' [imp. neut. intr.].
Prefixes: 'á- 'thus, so; ni- adjectival.
3. kaanááyiiłtsáͅná'a 'he saw them from her
also, it is said'. kaa- > go- 3a object plus aa- 'from, to, about' [pp.].
nááyiiłtsáͅ, third person perfective of
náá-hi-|...[ni- perf.]-ł-tsé 'to see again, to see
also' [act. tr.]. Prefixes: náá- again, also';
hi-| ?. náá- should require the -l- class but
it does not in this verb. The perfective is irregular.
4. iyáahee 'what'. Should read: iyáahee. iyáa,
interrogative pronoun plus the interrogative enclitic hee [also heard
hé].
5. ch'iyoołkaͅaͅ 'something good to eat'. Cf.
note 1.15, §6.
6. bicháͅáͅne 'his excrement'. -cháͅáͅne is the possessed form of cháͅáͅ 'excrement'. See Grammatical Sketch, §5.
This sentence is another without a verb. See note 1.4, §1.
