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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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"Coyote, you sent for me."

(4.26)[26]

"Shóͅóͅdé, shóͅkee,"

ch'indi.

'Áíbíká díńń 'áshíͅ shiłnóot'ash."

"Coyote, you sent for me."

he said.

Therefore, this person brought me back from over there."

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(4.26) Linguistic Notes

shiłnóot'as [This is most likely a misprint in the original, and should appear as shiłnóot'ash--MEC] 'he brought me back'. shił- 'with me' plus the 3rd person prog. of the theme -'aash 'two persons move' [act. intr.] with the prefix ná- 'back' [requires the -d- class].