A Girl Is Lost, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
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(36.1) Linguistic Notes
1. ha'óótł'is 'she was lost'. This is evidently a 3rd person hi- perf. pass. with prefix complex ha-'i- and stem -tł'is. No further analysis is possible, however.
2. t'óonádaashnłtíͅda 'they did not find her'. t'óo- ...da variant form of the negative affix plus the 3a distrib. perf. of ná-di- |...[ni- perf.]-ł-tee 'to pick up an animate being' [act. tr.].
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