The Foolish People Run Away, Chiricahua Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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They were sitting about.
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They were sitting about.
Naaheestáͅná'a.
Dádzaͅaͅshíͅ, siláádo łíͅbich'iͅiͅdahinndilná'a.
Ya'iładeeskaná'a.
Gołganá'a.
Bizáͅáͅyégo hanádaas'áná'a.
Hanandaagoosteelná'a.
Daadees'áí 'itisjiyazhoshná'a.
From right there, soldiers on horseback came to them.
They started to run away.
It was a plain.
There were small hills here and there.
Between were flat places.
They were running over these points of land.
1. łíͅbich'iͅiͅdahinndilná'a 'they came to them on horseback'. 3rd person perf. of łíͅ-0ch'iͅiͅ-dah-di- |...[ni- perf.]- ndííł 'several come to someone on horses' [act. intr.]. łíͅ 'horses'; ch'iͅiͅ 'toward' dah-di- | 'upward'. In the 3rd person of the ni- perf. di- becomes n-.
2. hanádaas'áná'a 'there were hills here and there'. hanádaas'á 'rolling country' probably ha- 'out'; ná- 'again and again'; daa- distrib.; and the si- perf.neut. of -'á 'a rigid object lies'.
3. hanandaagoosteelná'a 'between were flat places', hanan 'across' plus daa-go- ...-teel 'several places are broad, flat' [si- perf. neut. intr.]. daa- distrib.; go- place subject.
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