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ummikus, omikus may bc^ probably 23, 11. Der. ummi- 

 ka, hos. 



u'mmi/tchi, 6n\v/\.c\\\ looking like, resembling; lit. "being 

 so"; ma umi/tchut like it 31, 30; pitchiktch = iimi/tchi blood- 

 like 20,32; iitasi omi/tchut like a war-club 21, 29. Der. 

 limmilis. 



li mm i li s, omilis i) I do or act so; Iperfor?n, act, do; 

 make, ma /lufact ii r e. umha'hmilis I did so, have done 

 so; a'ladshi;/tchut ii'mmiktawats (key travelled thus habitu- 

 ally 24, 38 ; hitchgatin ommiktawats they made it so as 

 to be invisible 22, iS ; 'lagi li'mik making arrows 24, 17. 

 omik mattufacturing (arrow-heads) 24, 17; u'mik fnanu- 

 yacturifig (hows) 24,6; ta'g=abun 6mig fnaking axuoma?z's 

 likeness 23, 25 ; omik ayi, u'mmik a-i whe?z he ?noves 

 about, whichever is going along; cf. ummigayi u'mmik 

 fogi xvhen, after doing so ; after that event 35, 3. 4. u'm- 

 mi'htchi, omi/tchi the one making, those who made, the 

 maker or makers of 24, 15. 35. (Also means looking 

 like, cf. u'mmi/tchti.) omihin doing so 23, 34 ; omiti as, 

 because they did 32, 18 ; yatun pumanoli/tchut ommi'h- 

 tchamas has devoured our people, lit. "devouring people 

 away from us he has been doing so" 33, 18. Cf. quotation 

 under sonaba. ummikta'htchuti as they had formerly 

 (-ta'h-) built, constructed 25, 28. — 2) I am such, so; 

 I am thus; I am. This verb is extensively used to 

 form periphrastic conjugations with verbals and a num- 

 ber of particles, and comes nearer than any other Hitchiti 

 verb to our substantive verb to be; but the function of 

 being such or so is always perceptible. Very frequently 

 the idea of habitude, custom, permanence is embodied in 

 its use. u'mmis, o'mis, omis it is he, she, it; so it is 



20, 2 ; so they are. ya-ulidshik u'mmissa/a (what kind of 

 people) could have been there 33, 10 ; cf. 23, 9. mi'ki 

 tchobut ommis that he is a great chief 22, 36; umha'h- 

 milis so 1 was ; afoksak umha'hmis (ellipt. u'mhamis) he 

 was inside 23, 19; omiwats it was (of the same wood) 



21, 31 ; ommiwats is so, viz. "it is a sign, token of" 23, 

 I ; yatut limmiwats it was the same people as 24, 16 ; 



