"Now, on to all varieties of trees:
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"K'adi 'iͅiͅshíͅndásé
ditsiͅńt'ishé:
-
'ichíchiledódooná'gongaͅdí,
-
'ighe'éłtsoi,
-
t'iisí,
-
tógóͅlíní,
-
tógóͅlínínádaa'iigaaí,
-
tógóͅlínínádaa'iitooí,
-
tógóͅlíníná'iichíí,
-
tógóͅlíníná'iitsooí,
-
tógóͅlíníntsaaí,
-
tógóͅlínít'aͅaͅ'iłdá'dasiláí,
-
tógóͅlínít'aͅaͅ'áłch'oosí,
-
tógóͅlínít'aͅaͅłibáí.
"Now, on to all varieties of trees:
- live oak,
- acorn oak,
- cottonwood,
- willow,
- willow which becomes white all around,
- desert willow,
- willow which becomes red all around,
- willow which becomes yellow all around,
- big willow,
- willow on which the leaves lie above one another,
- heart leafed willow,
- salix exigua."
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(5.47) Linguistic Notes
ditsíͅńt'ishé 'all varieties of trees'. ditsíͅ 'trees' plus ńtishé [see
note 5.44, last paragraph].
'ichíchiledódooná'gongaͅdí 'live oak'. 'ichíchile 'oak'; dó- ?; doo-
negative. ná'gongaͅdí may bean some way related to
ná-hi...-l-gaͅ 'to be
dried up, to be dead [of a tree or plant]' [si- perf. neut. intr.].
'ighe'éłtsoi 'acorn oak'. 'ighe'é 'seed' [an archaic relative in -é of
'ighe' 'in something' ?]; -łtsoi, a relative form of łitso, 'it is
yellow'.
tógóͅlíní 'willow'. tó
'water' plus the relative of góͅlíͅ 'it is'.
The next three terms are compounds of tógóͅlíní 'willow',
the ni- perfective of the prefix complex ná-daa-'i-|
[ná- 'around'; daa- distrib.; 'i-| ?] and the perfective
stems of -gá 'to become white', -tó 'to become red', -chí 'to become red', and
-tsó 'to become yellow', respectively.
tógóͅlíní 'willow'; t'aͅaͅ-
'leaves'; 'iłdá'- 'above one another'; dasilá 'several lie upon' [si- perf. neut. intr. with dah- 'on, upon'].
In the last term, łibá means 'it is gray' [imp. neat.
intr.].