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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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2. Coyote and Owl as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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As Coyote was speaking to him, he had started to move toward him.

(2.21)[21]
Shóͅóͅdé goołndiná'ago, goch'iͅiͅyóodeeyáná'a.
'Ákoo bídó bich'iͅiͅyágo shdeeyáná'a.
'Ákoo'a 'iłzénách'iisndiigo 'iłch'áͅáͅ'á náshdeest'áájná'a.
As Coyote was speaking to him, he had started to move toward him.
Then he also had started to move toward [Coyote].
Then they embraced each other and parted.
 
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(2.21) Linguistic Notes

shdeeyáná'a 'he had started to move'. shdeeyá 'he had started to move' [3a person perf. with di- inceptive prefix] is contracted from ch'ideeyá.

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