The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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Then it seems they spoke thus:
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Then it seems they spoke thus:
(21.2)[2]
'Ákoosháͅ 'ádaajindíná'a:
'Ákoo 'ádaashdeesndiiná'a.
'Ákoo ghahá 'idaagojiist'ená'a.
'Ákoosháͅ 'ádaajindíná'a:
"Díń sáͅń dooha'yágo nzhóͅda."
daajindíná'a.
'Ákoo 'ádaashdeesndiiná'a.
"Díń sáͅń dooha'yágo nzhóͅda."
daajindíná'a,
"'Íyaͅaͅda, ghahá 'idaahiiłt'e,"
daajindíná'a.
'Ákoo ghahá 'idaagojiist'ená'a.
Then it seems they spoke thus:
Then they had spoken thus.
Then they had abandoned her.
"This old woman is good for nothing."
they said. Then they had spoken thus.
"This old woman is good for nothing."
they said."Therefore, let's abandon her."
they said. Then they had abandoned her.
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(21.2) Linguistic Notes
1. sáͅń 'old woman'. sáͅ 'old age' plus the relative -ń Cf. note 21.1, §1.
2. ghahá 'idaahiiłt'e 'let us abandon her'. ghaháoͅ away', ghahoͅ 'over there' plus -yá pp. 'i-daahiiłt'e, 1st person distrib. imp. of 'i-|...[hi- perf.]-ł-t'e 'to leave behind, to throw away' [act. tr.; 'i-| 'away'). The theme: 'to handle a long object. to handle a person'. Note the perf. of this verb in the last line of this passage. It has the si- perf. because of the distributive prefix.
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