The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples, Chiricahua Apache Text | ||
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
bich'áͅ'nádaazáͅ 'they had been abandoned'. bich'áͅ 'from them' plus distrib. perf. of 'i-ná-...[hi- perf.]-zé 'there is a movement of people away' [act. intr.]. i- 'away'; ná-...- zé 'there is a movement of people'. The text form has the si- perf. because of the distrib. -daazáͅ > -daazáͅ.
1. Jaazhááda another word denoting the Mountain Spirits; synonymous with Gáͅhé. No analysis.
2. gołnihéńnda' 'it surrounded them'. Analysis uncertain. goł- 'with them' plus a 3rd person ni- perf. with prefix complex ni-hi-ni- and a stem -nda'. This may be related to the theme nda [perf. stem -nda'] 'to a stream [of water, sand]; to flare, blaze [of fire]' [act. intr.].
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