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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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(2.40)[40]
Niishjaahastiͅiͅń ''áó' dindíí, dá'iłéé'é ''áó' 'dooda' ch'idóͅóͅndiiná'a.

As Old Man Owl was about to say yes, [the other two] said yes and no simultaneously.

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(2.40) Linguistic Notes

This passage is literally: "Owl man / yes / that he will say, / together / yes / no / they had said, it is said."

dá'iłéé'é 'together' is unanalyzable.