a-che-zha (aččéža), e-che-zha (eččéža)
goodness!	Speaker - Alice Crawfish Gilmore

a-che-zhe (ačéže)
my goodness!	Speaker - Odestine McWatters

My goodness, this one!
e-che-zha  de-khe (eččéža dékhe)	Speaker - Alice Crawfish Gilmore
goodness - this lying, inanimate

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You all that understand.
	Speaker - Alice Crawfish Gilmore
e-che-zha,  i-za-ni  i-shpa-hoⁿ  ni-kʰa-she  (eččéža, ízaní íšpahǫ níkháše)
goodness - all - you understand - you all sitting, doing that

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

• a-che-zha (aččéža) - goodness! (RR-Quapaw)
• e-she-she (ecéce) - you say it often (Omaha-JOD)
• e-she (éeše) - golly, slang (CQ-Osage)
• e-she-she (ešéše) - you keep saying (CQ-Osage)

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• shee (shée) - say, this, to say this, to say it is so (Omaha/Ponca)
• e-she (ecé) - you said (Omaha-JOD)
• e-she (e-she) - you say (FL-Osage)
• e-she (éše) - you say (CQ-Osage)