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Coyote and Blue Bunting, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

1. Coyote and Blue Bunting as told by Charles Smith

[Ethnological Notes]

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"There is no tobacco here [that] I can give you."

(1.5)[5]

"Dooha'yá nát'oh si'iͅiͅ dihnoosh'iͅiͅhát'éda."

"There is no tobacco here [that] I can give you."

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(1.5) Linguistic Notes

Dooha'yá nát'oh si'iͅiͅ dihnoosh'iͅiͅhát'éda 'there is no tobacco here [that] I can give you'. doo...-da negative; ha'yá 'any, some'; nát'oh 'tobacco'; si'iͅiͅ 'an unknown object lies'; dihnoosh'iͅiͅ, a combination of dih- 'tobacco offering', naa- 'to you', the 1st person opt. prefix, and the opt. stem of the theme -'iͅiͅ 'to handle an unknown object' [act. tr.]. Note that hát'é is oftener used than 'át'é [the characteristic Chir. usage] in constructions of this sort [see note 1.4, §1].