Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"I know about all sorts of places. Therefore, I will get all sorts of things from people of many kinds. I am learning as I travel about. Therefore, do not follow me over there. Let me go about by myself. Do not speak of this to me again.
(5.5)[5]
"Nádaagóń'áͅ 'iyáada bégonsiͅ. 'Áí bíká, ndé 'ił'áńyágo 'át'éne góch'áͅshíͅ
díík'ehí ła'dooshłííł. Nsiͅgo naashá. 'Áíyaada.
Doo'ákaashkéé'daahahkáda. Bíniidáseen 'ákaa nanóoshdááł.
Dooghát'égoshich'iͅiͅhanáánáͅdziida.
"I know about all sorts of places. Therefore, I will get all sorts of
things from people of many kinds. I am learning as I travel about.
Therefore, do not follow me over there. Let me go about by myself. Do
not speak of this to me again.
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(5.5) Linguistic Notes
1. nádaagóń'áͅ 'places'. ná- ?; daa- distrib.; go- place subject; ń'áͅ 'it lies' [ni- perf. neut. intr.].
2. doo'ákaashkéé'daahahkáda 'do not follow me over there'. doo-...-da negative; 'ákaa 'there'; -shkéé'-, bound form of shiké 'after me'; daahahká, 2nd person distrib. imp. of -ká 'several move' [act. intr.].
3. bínii- 'let it go' plus dáseen 'by myself' [?].
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