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The Foolish People Go to War, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

29. The Foolish People Go to War as told by Sam Kenoi

29.1.

"Let's go to war."

29.2.

There was a big camp.

29.3.

Then he spoke thus to them:

29.4.

Then, from right there, they went back [home].

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"Let's go to war."

(29.1)[1]

"Daadeebaa."

daandiná'a.

"Let's go to war."

they said.

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(29.1) Linguistic Notes

daadeebaa 'let's go to war'. 1st person dual perf. of di-...[si- perf.]-bá 'to start to go to war' [act. intr.; di- inceptive]. In the 2nd line of passage 2 will be found the 3rd person perf. of this verb.

University of Virginia Library

"Let's go to war."