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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"Coyote, I'll do for you anything that you want. Name it!"

(4.32)[32]
Shóͅóͅdé, haadí yááłndíhí ná'áshlá. Hónzhii!"
goołndiná'a, Ts'isteełń.
"Coyote, I'll do for you anything that you want. Name it!"
said Turtle to him.
 
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(4.32) Linguistic Notes

yááłndíhí 'that you want'. I cannot analyze this form.

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