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Bed, nakuta. 



Bee, nopopo. 



Beetle, nag u a. 



Belty, ngusi. 



Bird, nori, nyuri'. Compare snake and flower. Chap. nuri. 



Bitter, yasi. 



Black, nansome. 



Blood, nijnyii ; S. nenuh. 



Blue, nandipame. 



Body or Flesh, nimbrome, nampoome. 



Bone, nyu'. 



Bowels, ngita. 



Boy, nasome ; R. norome ; little boy, norominamu. 



Branch (of a tree) ndiro nya; = "its arm, tree." 



Brandy, nimbuyasi ; = " water, bitter." 



Brave, pusit'u. 



Brook, nanda. 



Brother, manku, mambo. 



Brother, younger, mambo nyamo nasome. 



Buttocks, bojo'; nbasi, basti'. 



Cacao, nyusi. 



Camote, yujmi (an edible root). 



Cane, sugar, niriombome. 



Cantaro (a water jar), natiyojpo. 



Casava, see yuca: 



Cat, misa, mixa. 



Cat, wild, misa se nirome; = " cat of the forest." 



Chachalaca, tasara. A kind of partridge called, in Nahuatl, 

 chachalacatl. 



Chalchihuitl (a green stone, Nah.),njai se ra} r o ; the last word, 

 rayo, is Spanish, and the expression means " stone of the light- 

 ning," the belief being that these stones are thunderbolts. 



Cheek, girote. Compare face. 



Chief, ruler, mankeme. Chap, manayama, from yima, the 

 head. See The Giieguenee, Introd., p. viii, note. 



Chief, female, najyumbu. 



Child, nasungi. 



Chile (a sort of red pepper"), ningi. 



Chocolate, nimbu nyusi ; = " water-cacao." 



