A Visit to the Mountain Spirits, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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This woman [had] a little girl [and] little boy.
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This woman [had] a little girl [and] little boy.
(22.1)[1]
Díí 'isdzáń 'it'éekébizáͅáͅyé 'icheeshkébizáͅáͅyé.
Díń 'isdzáńń 'áłchiné beená'iistł'óͅ jaghééł.
Díí 'isdzáń 'it'éekébizáͅáͅyé 'icheeshkébizáͅáͅyé.
Díń 'isdzáńń 'áłchiné beená'iistł'óͅ jaghééł.
This woman [had] a little girl [and] little boy.
This woman was carrying a baby in a cradle.
This woman was carrying a baby in a cradle.
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(22.1) Linguistic Notes
1. 'it'éeké 'girl' [also heard 'idéeké; cheeshké boy' [also heard 'ijeeshkéńń. This narrative is from a member of the Warm Springs band of the Chiricahua. It may be, therefore, that these are dialectical variants.
2. beená'iistł'óͅ 'in a cradle'. Literally: 'it had been wrapped around it'. A passive perf. of the theme - tł'óͅ 'to tie up, to wrap' with the prefixes ee- 'by means of'; ná- 'around' and 'i- indef. pronoun.
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