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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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"Are you ready to eat now?"

(2.39)[39]
"Hak'adi k'adóodaa'asáͅ?"
goołndiná'a, Shóͅóͅdé.
"Are you ready to eat now?"
said Coyote to them.
 
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(2.39) Linguistic Notes

hak'adi > 'ha- interrog. pronoun plus k'adi 'now, then'.

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