MASON, TEPECANO, A PIMAN LANGUAGE OF MEXICO 



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ways, rules, laws 

 pertaining to the rain 

 northern habitant spirit 

 health, happiness 



sitter, persons seated 

 whitish, pertaining to white 

 heat, plague, sickness 

 darkness, obscurity 

 greatness, leaders 

 habitant spirit, viviente 

 the dead, disembodied spirits 

 the sick, a sick person 



horned serpent, chart 

 pets, deer 



pertaining to ceremonies 

 mankind, people 

 piece, fraction, bit 



Another quite common etymological suffix seems to have a similar 

 abstractive significance, though here also the exact connotation is 



difficult to determine. 



.'»'. -da, -dara. -darakam, (con 



i'Tiorao 



i'ik-a 

 irv 



maim 



him 



ba*i 



kii'» 



ha''gic(id ) 



go'gnk- 

 ko'k 



ko'k 

 6r(id i 

 ho'mad 



sins 

 shadow 

 woman 

 be drunk 



tracted da'kam) abstractive. 



i'krada filth, dirtiness 



g° 

 ripen 



reside 



pardon 

 remain (pin. 

 be siek 



be sick 



feel 



create 



o'kaira 



u'vda 



mai'mda 



hi-'mda 



ba - ida 



kid-a 



hd'gicdara 



gi'igucdara 



ko'kdara 



hoi"gurdara 



icko'kdakani 



o'radakam 



bd'madakam 



oidakani 



da'da'kam 



shade, shadow 



younger sister ( .' i 



drunken, one intoxicated 



ways, laws, fasting 



fruit 



village, pueblo 



pardon, forgiveness 

 aid, succor, fortune 

 sickness, plague 

 sadness, misery 



sickness, pain 

 intent, wish, thought 

 form, shape, kind 

 universe, world 

 ripe ears of corn, elotes 



A suffix -tdm 21 signifies "place of", "place where are". 



/ i. -tarn, place <>f. 



to'nar small ant 



viip-ak reed 



to'tonartam 

 va'paktam 



Azqueltan, ant-place 



Totatiche, reed-place 



11 Philologically and morphologically akin to Nahua -Han. 



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