Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Come down. Let's sit on the ground. Tell me stories,"
"Come down. Let's sit on the ground. Tell me stories,"
he said to
him.[_]
(2.4) Linguistic Notes
1. naańndá 'come down'. 2nd person imp. of naa-di-...[hi- perf.]-yá 'one person comes down' [act. intr.]. naa- 'down, off'; di- inceptive [?]. See passage 5, line 2 for the 3rd person perfective of this verb.
2. shiłgóͅłndi 'tell me stories'. shi- 'me'; ł- 'with, to' [pp.]. góͅłndiͅ, 2nd person imp. of go-...[hi- perf.]-ł-ndi 'to tell, narrate' [act intr.].
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