Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
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(7.1) Linguistic Notes
dáma'ye 'there were just animals'. dá- just' ma'ye 'animals'. This word is ordinarily applied to Coyote but,
in this instance as well as in numerous compounds, it has the wider meaning.
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(7.2) Linguistic Notes
doo'ee'áíͅlaadaná'a 'he did wrong'. The negative of the
3rd person perf. with 3rd person object of áá-...[?
perf.]-lá 'to do so to' [act. tr.] preceded by the
prefix ee-. I cannot give an exacter definition for 'ee-.
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(7.3) Linguistic Notes
1. dá'íłtsé nahdáńyáń 'the first person that you meet'.
Literally 'the first one that meets you [pl.]'.
2. 'it'édeheetsaaye 'the oldest girl'. 'it'éde 'girl'; -heetsaaye 'oldest', cf. ni-...-tsaa 'to be
big'.
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(7.6) Linguistic Notes
doo'ádashíͅgo 'in a roundabout way'. doo-... -da
negative; 'á- 'there'; -shíͅ; 'from'; -go subordinating enclitic.
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(7.9) Linguistic Notes
yaanádzá 'he married her'. Literally 'he had gone back to
her'.
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(7.10) Linguistic Notes
biłnaach'i'aashń 'his wife'. Literally 'she with whom he
went about'.
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(7.15) Linguistic Notes
1. bee'itseeł 'axe'. Literally 'one chops by means of it'
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2. bich'iͅiͅbił'édeeshneestaná'a 'she ran toward him with
it'. bich'iͅiͅ 'toward him'; bił- 'with it'; plus the 3a person perf. of 'éd-ee-ni-...['si- perf.]-d-tá 'to run' [act.
intr.]. 'éd- reflexive; ee- 'by means of'; ni-
terminative; -d-tá 'to start, jerk, move quickly'. See
note 5.27, §2.
