The Foolish People Acquire Coffee, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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28. The Foolish People Acquire Coffee as told by Sam
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28. The Foolish People Acquire Coffee as told by Sam Kenoi
They had a camp.
Bigootaná'a.
Ha'shíͅshiͅ gahée náyíńzhaaná'a.
Ch'édégoda 'ádailáná'a.
Dá'át'égo daajiyáͅí dooyédaagósiͅdaná'a.
Dádatł'izhgo 'ísaa yóóndilná'a.
Hibéézhgo 'ii'óó'áͅná'a.
Gahéeí 'it'a ntł'izná'a.
T'óosibéézhdaná'a.
'Iyáa'át'éí dooyédaagósiͅdaná'a.
From somewhere they had brought back some coffee.
They didn't [know] what to do with it.
They did not know how it was eaten.
They had put it in a pot still green.
It had boiled all day.
The coffee was still hard.
It had not been cooked.
They didn't know what it was.
1. dádatł'izhgo 'still green'. dá- 'just' plus: 3rd person of da-ni-...-tł'izh 'to be green, to be blue' [imp. newt. intr.].
2. 'ísaa yóóndilná'a 'they put it in a pot'. 'ísaa 'pot'. yóóndil should probably be bee 'iyóóndil, 3rd person perf. with 3rd person obj. of 'i- |...[hi- perf.]- ndííł 'to put several objects away' [act. tr.].
3. hibéézhgo 'it, boiling'. 3rd person imo. of ...[si- perf.]-béézh 'to boil' [act. intr.]. In the line below is the 3rd person perf. of this verb and in passages 2 and 4 of this text may be found the causative: ...[si- perf.]-ł-béézh 'to boil' [act. tr.].
Then this Mescalero who lived among them came there.
'Ákoo 'ádíń Mashgaléń gotanlíͅń 'áá'híłghoná'a.
Gahéeí dádatł'izhgo daajiłbéézhí yiiłtsáͅná'a.
He saw the still green coffee that they had boiled.
Then he spoke thus:
'Ákoo 'ándiná'a:
Then he roasted the coffee that they had given him.
'Ákoo gahéeí baajíńjaaí yiist'éná'a.
Dádaajinéł'íͅgo, hita'iisndiná'a.
Tsíyóó'áͅná'a.
Gahée yiisbéézhná'a.
'Iłch'áͅyiis'áͅná'a.
Sibéézhgo, káyaadayaandííłná'a.
As they watched, he pounded it.
He put it on the fire.
He boiled coffee.
He took it off the fire.
Still boiling, he poured it for the them.
1. hita'iisndiná'a 'he pounded it'. 3rd person perf. of ta-'i- ...[si- perf.]-ł-ndii 'to pound, to crush, to pulverize'. The pronoun before t'a- occurs only in the 3rd person. Cf. hi- |...[si- perf.]- ł-ndii 'to hit, strike' [act. tr.].
2. 'iłch'áͅyiis'áͅná'a 'he took it off the fire'. I do not understand this form. It seems to me to be 'iłch'áͅ 'from each other' plus yiis'áͅ 'he has caused a round object to move'.
3. káyaadayaandííłná'a 'he poured it for them'. I cannot analyze the prefix complex. The stem looks like the imp. stem of - ndííł 'to handle several objects' [act. tr.].
"This is the way they eat it."
'Ákoo bédaagojoosiͅná'a.
Then they had learned about it.
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
1. dádatł'izhgo 'still green'. dá- 'just' plus: 3rd person of da-ni-...-tł'izh 'to be green, to be blue' [imp. newt. intr.].
2. 'ísaa yóóndilná'a 'they put it in a pot'. 'ísaa 'pot'. yóóndil should probably be bee 'iyóóndil, 3rd person perf. with 3rd person obj. of 'i- |...[hi- perf.]- ndííł 'to put several objects away' [act. tr.].
3. hibéézhgo 'it, boiling'. 3rd person imo. of ...[si- perf.]-béézh 'to boil' [act. intr.]. In the line below is the 3rd person perf. of this verb and in passages 2 and 4 of this text may be found the causative: ...[si- perf.]-ł-béézh 'to boil' [act. tr.].
1. hita'iisndiná'a 'he pounded it'. 3rd person perf. of ta-'i- ...[si- perf.]-ł-ndii 'to pound, to crush, to pulverize'. The pronoun before t'a- occurs only in the 3rd person. Cf. hi- |...[si- perf.]- ł-ndii 'to hit, strike' [act. tr.].
2. 'iłch'áͅyiis'áͅná'a 'he took it off the fire'. I do not understand this form. It seems to me to be 'iłch'áͅ 'from each other' plus yiis'áͅ 'he has caused a round object to move'.
3. káyaadayaandííłná'a 'he poured it for them'. I cannot analyze the prefix complex. The stem looks like the imp. stem of - ndííł 'to handle several objects' [act. tr.].
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