Coyote and Blue Bunting, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Coyote, why do you come?"
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Coyote and Blue Bunting, Mescalero Apache Text | ||
"Coyote, why do you come?"
"Coyote, why do you come?"
said the Blue Bunting to him.[_]
(1.2) Linguistic Notes
hóͅndááł 'you are going'. 2nd person prog. of -yá 'one person moves'. See Linguistic Note to Chiricahua text 1.15, §2 for an explanation of the stem form. This is an example of one of the paradigmatic distinctions between Chir. and Mesc. For a summary of these, see §§13-18 of the Grammatical Sketch.
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