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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Just as [Beetle] said:

(4.11)[11]

"'Iłtséda!"

dábiłch'indiná'a,
Bídó:

"'Iłtséda!"

dóͅóͅndiiná'a,

"Dooshaa'isdánádáda!"

Just as [Beetle] said:

"Wait!"

to him,
He also said:

"Wait! You will not get away from me again!"

he said[2].

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(4.11) Linguistic Notes

dooshaa'isdánádáda 'you will not get away from me again'. The negative of the 2nd person imp. of 0aa-'isdá-ná-...[hi- perf.]-dá 'one person gets away from, escapes from' [act. intr.]. See Linguistic Note to Chiricahua text 15.8, §2.

[A literal translation of the Apache construction would read: "'Wait!' he [Beetle] said to him. Also [Coyote]: 'Wait!' he had said, 'You will not get away from me again!'--MEC]

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Ethnological Note 2
This refers to a previous episode wherein Beetle made believe he was receiving a message concerning Coyote from people beneath the earth and thus out-witted and escaped from Coyote. See Chiricahua Apache Text 15: "Coyote and Beetle".