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Lî'ñgua xAldâ'ñgAñ q!ô'lget [ahîyîa]
Why is it | your slave | close by,
Hao dâ îlgîyâ'gAñAñ dâ sûkû'djiwañ?
You | want something you cannot get, | you | say?
DAñ qô'naga kûdjû'geda qâñ l qê'gAn.
You | are too foolish, | my uncle I | bore.
Why do you cry for something that you cannot get,
Sitting close by your slave? 2
You are very foolish, uncle I bore.
41:2 The mother calls herself the child's "slave" in jest. An "uncle" is reborn in the child.