The Girl and the Water Spirit, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

The Girl and the Water Spirit, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

37.1.

37.2.

Then they searched for her in vain.

37.3.

37.4.

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(37.2)[2]
'Ákoo ch'éhádaajintá.
'Ákoo bich'inéń, hichago, tóyá naagháná'a.

Then they searched for her in vain.
And her grandmother, weeping, walked about near the water.

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(37.2) Linguistic Notes

bich'inéń 'her grandmother'. -ch'iné 'father's mother'.

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