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A Girl Is Lost, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

36. A Girl Is Lost as told by Duncan Belacho

36.1.

Long ago, when they were moving, a girl was lost.

36.2.

Then many of them trailed her.

36.3.

Then, she had apparently gone to a place where the ground was cracked open.

36.4.

Then a shaman made a ceremony for her.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Then a shaman made a ceremony for her.

(36.4)[4]
'Ákoo ndédighiͅń káhikéé'gotaał.
'Ákoo díń nndéń 'ágoołndí:

"Dooła'náhadláhát'éda."

goołndi.
'Ákoo t'óoła'nádzáda.

Then a shaman made a ceremony for her.
Then this man spoke thus to them:

"No one can bring her back."

he said to them.
And no one came back.

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(36.4) Linguistic Notes

káhikéé'gotaał 'he made a ceremony for her'. Literally: 'he sang after it for her'. ká- 'for her'; hikéé'- bound form of hiké- 'after it, behind it, following it'; gotaał, 3rd person imp. of go- ...[hi- perf.]-taał 'to sing a ceremony' [act. intr.].