Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Then the thorny plants also:
- hoshnaadeeyei,
- hoshdishtoͅoͅtí,
- hoshgóͅts'iͅiͅsí.
- hoshbéíí,
- gołchídí,
- hoshbizáͅáͅyéíłitsoí.
- ocotillo,
- cholla,
- nipple cactus.
- hedge-hog cactus,
- prickly pear cactus,
- strawberry cactus."
hoshditsinídó 'the thorny plants also'. hosh 'thorn, cactus'; ditsiní, relative of ditsiͅ 'tree'; -dó 'also'.
The next two terms cannot be analyzed.
hoshgóͅts'iisí [this form appears in the text as hoshgóͅts'iͅiͅsí--MEC] 'nipple cactus' is a compound of hosh 'cactus'; góͅts'iis- 'it is small [i. e., small-bodied]' [imp. neut. intr. with place subj. and ni adj.].
hoshbéí 'hedge-hog cactus'. -béí ?.
gołchídí 'prickly pear cactus'. Place subj. plus -łchíd-, a bound form of łichí 'it is red'.
hoshbizáͅáͅyéíłitsoí 'strawberry cactus'. bizáͅáͅyé 'little, small'; łitso 'it is yellow'.
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