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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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Then she spread [a robe] for them.

(2.26)[26]
'Ákoo'a ká'égoosteelná'a.
'Ákoo 'áshíͅ ńch'ideebiͅná'a.
Then she spread [a robe] for them.
And they sat down there.
 
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(2.26) Linguistic Notes

ńch'ideebiͅná'a 'they sat down'. 3a person perf. of the verb noted in 2:25, §3. Note that the -s- of the si- perf. is lacking. See note 1.24, §2.

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