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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

2. Coyote and Owl as told by Charles Smith

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Then Coyote returned to his home.

(2.22)[22]
'Ákoo'a Tsék'eeshchíhéń bikooghaͅyá nádzáná'a.
'Áshíͅ díͅíͅ'í hiiskáͅná'a.
'Ákoo bich'iͅiͅch'ideeskaná'a.
Dásínzhóͅgo díͅíͅ'í hiiskáͅná'ago, bikooghaͅnáyá baach'íͅkáná'a.

Then Coyote returned to his home.
Then four days passed.
Then they had started to come to him.
When exactly four days had passed, they came to him at his home.

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(2.22) Linguistic Notes

dásínzhóͅgo 'exactly'. dásí- ', just, exactly': nzhóͅ 'it is good'; -go subord encl.