Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Yes, now I know it.
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"Yes, now I know it.
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"'Áó, k'adi bégonsiͅ. Nndiií gotahndaago, haadí ha'yágo 'ágoiláí
bich'iͅnzhóní góbá'áͅlá. Shimáń
béhídishki."
ndiná'a., Tóbájiishchinéń.
"Yes, now I know it. Since disease will be among them, make
something that will cure it that they can prepare. I ask my mother
for this."
said Child of the Water[_]
(5.82) Linguistic Notes
nndiií gotahndaago 'since disease will be among them'. nndii 'disease, sickness', the 3rd person of ni-...-ndii 'to be hurt, sick; to have a pain' [imp. neut. intr.]. gotah 'among them' plus the 3rd person imp. of ni-...[si- perf.]-daa 'one person sits down' [act. intr.].
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