GATSCHET — KAS.LEG. — CREEK GLOSSARY. [147J 115 



o's, OS, -US SO he^ it is., thus it zvas, or /las been 12, 28 ; atassa 

 omid being like a war-club 10. 24 ; oma/adis they were such 

 (ftatheads) 16, 25; tchatad ho'lit omin the red being -war ^ 

 VIZ. "like war, meaning war" 12, 28. 4) In most instan- 

 ces omas stands for our auxiliary verb / atn., though the 

 idea of / a??z so is always understood to be imderlying ; 

 as an auxiliary verb, omas forms, appended to verbals 

 in -t and -n, a long array of periphrastic conjugations, 

 active, passive, etc. ; and also a number of conjunctions, 

 like momen, mumof, omasim, omika, omofa etc. Lamhi-u 

 mikko 'lakid o'mis komagid omis thev think that the 

 eagle also is a great king or chief ; lit. "the eagle 

 also (-u) a chief great so is, thinking (komagid) they are 

 (omis)," the second omis being the auxiliary through which 

 komagid is conjugated 12, 25. 26; istit fuUangid o'mis ko- 

 matis they believed them to be the very people (formerly 

 engaged in making the white path) 14, 37. 38 ; isti hi'la- 

 Ljit omin omad whether the people zuere good (or not) 14, 

 39 ; atchiillid oma'lis it will be old^ viz. the oldest, most 

 respected 12,5; mata oma'lis it will be the same., ox like 

 the same; isamumid-es 6'hmis that it might be better so 

 12, 36. 37 ; latkid omit alighting there 14, 32 ; isti istomid 

 fiillit 6mati what people had been about there 12, 36. cf. 

 33 ; isihi'li omati to be the better tiling 18, 1 1 ; nini isto- 

 mid omad what sort of a path it was 12, 35 ; li/ui'lit oma- 

 tit zvas standing there^ lit. "was so as to stand erect" 10, 

 20 ; istuka'-idshi mahid omatin although it was very noisy 

 10, 21 ; isti istomit omakat (verbal, -ka causal suifix) de- 

 sirous of seeing what kind of people they might be 16, 5 ; 

 omidatit-as istiingun although he zvas 18, 12. 

 omiis, adj., alike to., in 10, 11. 19; cf. o'ma. 

 omasim although it is 12, 2. iS, 10; although they are 12, 

 7 ; is conjugated through all persons : oma/asim although 

 vc are. 

 ci'men, omin i) there zuhere, where; o'dshit o'men aklatga- 

 tin where habitually is setting 8, 19. 2) there; same as 

 the adv. man 10, 5. 

 6mika, omeka, umiga, contr. u'nga i) postp. because; haya- 

 tit omika because they made iS, 8; ikodshid omeka o/i 



