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The Apache and the Comanche, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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[oral narrative]
 32.1. 
They were on the war path.
 32.2. 
On the other side of this windbreak the Comanche were crawling toward them.
 32.3. 
Then [one of the Apaches] was taking the insides out of a rabbit.
 32.4. 
Then [the chief] laughed.
  
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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On the other side of this windbreak the Comanche were crawling toward them.

(32.2)[2]
Díí náá'neesndilí 'áshíͅ binde'shíͅ Gomáńchíí bich'iͅiͅdaahídóͅóͅsná'a.
Gomáńchíí bi'inda'ná'a.
On the other side of this windbreak the Comanche were crawling toward them.
The Comanche [were] their enemies.
 
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(32.2) Linguistic Notes

1. binde'shíͅ 'on the other side of it'. nde' 'back of, behind'.

2. Gomáńchíí > Comanche.

3. bich'iͅiͅdaahídóͅóͅsná'a 'they were crawling toward them'. bich'iͅiͅ 'toward them' plus 3rd person distrib. imp. of ni- ...[ni- perf.]-dóͅóͅs 'to crawl up to' [act. intr.; ni- completive].

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