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sawi, shawi racoon \ cf. vol. i. 85. 96. 97. 144. 



-si suffix: only^ but; inflected: -sik, -sin, -sun; 'lamosik only 

 one 23, 35 ; tuklosik but two, just two 35, 6. 3) Just only 

 in the sens*; of very, entirely : labangosun very near, just 

 near 30, 3i ; im-awilosi-hin very close to it 33, 8. Der. 

 isilis ; cf. is- (prefix). 



siliti I) slimy 20, 39; 3) slime, phlegm; sili'tus it is slimy; 

 no form for the plural. 



sitagi, sitaki four 31, 33; itikadshik 6gli sitagiti thus were 

 thev agreeing, as they -v ere four tribes 33, 9. 



situnaba divided up, apportioned to each — verbified in: situ- 

 na'bigas it becomes divided up to each of us ; pret. situ- 

 • na'bigas each of us has obtained a share ; fut. situnabikala- 

 /as a portion will go to each one ; tchiku'n situnabikala/as 

 akliktawats they intended to apportion a house to each 

 man (or person) 35, 4. (-la suffix of one of the future 

 tenses.) Der. isi-, iti-, unapa. 



-ska, -shka, suffixed particle of various significations and often 

 untranslatable in English : i) w^hen connected with substan- 

 tives, pronouns, and adjectives, it is appended to the subjec- 

 tive case in -ut, which is shortened to -u, -o, and means 

 even, just ; ashpiishka even maize 24,4; huta'guska even 

 the women 22, 2 ; inhu'loska even their enemies 23, i ; 

 hu'hiska y«5/ in war-titne ; pahoska even the grass 33,6; 

 nakoska something, lit. "just a thing" ; mii'ska J7ist the one. 

 3) or it means stich as, something like; Ma'luska fsh of 

 some kind, such food as fish 20, 32, 34, 5 ; impigiiska food 

 of some kind 24, 3 i ; ayiktchuska some sorts of medicinal 



herbs 21, 14. 3) correlative particle : that one the other 



one; inotuska tchunu'liiska either teeth or flint-stones 24,6 ; 



or or: ni'htagi tsa/kipaska, ipagiska five or six days, 



etc. 22, 3. 4) connected with adjectives, -ska forms a sort 

 of comparative : hi'll good, hi'luska better, preferable 23, 1 1. 

 5) by -ska adverbs and conjunctions are formed from 

 pronouns: ykmiska. just ncxv ; mamiska btit, although. 6) 

 connected with verbs: ingaska who could tell 21, 26; ho- 

 panaska it sings at times, sometimes 21, 23. 



s 6 k o d s h i door. 



solo pi i) soul; 2) ghost. 



