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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

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"What did you come for? What shall I do for you?"

(2.29)[29]

"'Iyáa háahka' 'iyáa nahá'áshłá?"

"What did you come for? What shall I do for you?"

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(2.29) Linguistic Notes

háahka 'you have come for'. 2nd person dual perf. of há-...[hi- perf.]-ká 'several come for' [act. intr.]. há- 'for'. I am not certain of this analysis, nor can I explain the -h- before the stem of the text form.