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for a week I lay sick in my bed. The whole town ate venison 

 and danced. I didn't like to be at home for I wanted to dance 

 with the girls, hut every night my brother came to see me. And 

 every time lie would laugh ami say, "When yon are better, Juan, 

 we will go for deer again, but then we will carry food, tortillas 

 and beana and we'll leave the anaches for the crows!" 



ANALYSIS 



1. nanitnauvdim. Stem probably nauvad, possibly navuad (nauvd 



by syncope; hunt deer. 



2. atin.O'i. ov, stem accompany. (As verb is by nature appli- 



cative, present stem is used exclusively in past tense). 

 ananiamapbaik. anan-, redup. pron. sbj. -inm-. neg. -op-, excel- 



lentive, well, baik, (better 6a»V), be able, can. 

 nantumahina. Stem mahin, shoot, -a, future. 

 ';). ar/'ciiiiitof. mill, stem know. -of. continued past contemporaneous. 

 twna'his. ma'his, iterative stem of mahin, shoot, throw. 

 Jwgavi'ud'dat. -//'-. undetermined. 'xa\ invariable stem CARRY. 



-dat, imperfect, past continued action. 

 Tidgama'hin'k'araD. ma'hin, stem shoot. -Inu\ (probably better 



Jccrr), nominal instrumentative. -a-, probably reappearance of 



lost stem vowel, ka'ra. -z>, 3d sing. pron. possessive. 



4. havaganu'u. hava- : proclitic conjunction, and. 



titisdnci't. soncrt, pret. form BEGIN; (present stem uncertain). 



5. kutititugd. ga, invariable stem seek. 



6. titiamactuto. m-ln-. by elision from hac-tu, any-thin*;, ft?, pret. 



of tog, see. 

 ati'k'oi'. ( ', of doubtful value), l-o'r. (better /,»■/'), pret. of ko m C : 

 SLEEP. 



7. ho'vitwot'a. -wofra, (or v'dPa), postposition, beneath. 

 sudikovav. -kovar, postposition, at the edge. 



natM'oak. v'dak, (m quite surd after /). The stem seems to be 

 m'dak. This past form may be the present stem used in past 

 tense for applicative, but is more probably pret. imxi and 

 perfect suffix -/,-. 



8. natpuvan.a'O. <f<;. stem CONVERSE. (Present form used in past 



tense to denote applicative). 

 '.i. natudadaa. dadaG, redup. continuative of stem dag, work. 



