Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Right there, straight ahead, there is a road across."
"Right there, straight ahead, there is a road across."
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(4.19) Linguistic Notes
haná'ítin 'there is a road across'. Cf. bich'iͅiͅ'i'ítin 'there is a road to it' [passage 18]; 'íńtinyá 'on the road' [passage 9]; da'tinyá '[out of] the door, entrance way' [passage 6]. All of these seem to be composed of the theme -'ítin or 'íńtin plus prefixes which vary the basic meaning 'road, passage'. Thus: haná- 'across'; bich'iͅiͅ 'toward it'; 'i- 'away'; dá- ? [in da'tin 'doorway'].
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