Uatichet.j boji rA!>riMi, 



name?) In the Spanish word femo no it means : the so caWed faith, in gafo- 

 mano the so culled cat. 



Tlie termination -male serves to designate two members of a family equi- 

 distant in their relationsliip or consanguinity, f. i., father and son, grand- 

 grand-fat licr and grand-grand-cliild etc. The former two are called iti- 

 male, tlic latter ini/ulmale ; hut if the grand-grand son is mentioned l)efore 

 the grand-grand-father, another term, klsitoiaale, will be employed. Uncle 

 and nephew is itelemale, nephew and uncle, however, are called kiemde. 

 It will be difficult to find any other language on the face of the globe, even 

 in America, wliere tiie degrees of relationship are distinguished with such 

 extreme accuracy. 



In a community with so aristocratic forms as that of the Timucua we 

 must e.xpect to meet with a number of reverential endings appended to 

 nouns and verbs, which were used in addressing persons who commanded 

 respect through their position : kings, chiefs, governors, parents, friends, 

 matrons, etc. Thej' are extremely frequent in the idioms of the Mexican 

 States. 



A demonstrative pronoun caki occurs in very dill'erenl forms (c<(, caqr, 

 caqxii, etc.), and answers to our that and to the personal pronoun he, she, 

 it. Connected with the prefix o it occurs as ogue, oqe, and its plural forms 

 are care, carema, oquere, oquare. Etymologically connected witii it is the 

 demonstrative particle -co, frequently redoubled to roro and appended U> 

 substantives and adjectives. Aeu, ico means every one, all ; ano paraeusi 

 olata ico, lit. " one king of all chiefs, " was the official title of the Timucua 

 monarch or head-centre. 



Wlu;n standing at the end of the sentence, as in questions, "thou" is 

 expressed hy cho, otherwise hy chi, and in locutions like chi isucu? are 

 you a herb-doctor? it replaces at the same time our substantive verb to be, 

 of which all American languages are deficient. Itimi isomikene rhi nahef 

 Have you father and motlierV Anoco orobasobi cho? Did 3'ou bewitch 

 anybody V The former sentence shows the use of the postposition ke, 

 which in fact answers to our "and," but really signifies "together, along 

 witii, " thus fulfilling the function of one of our prepositions. 



The interrogative pronoim or particle who V what? which? chaf achat 

 harha ? appears chiefly in compounds, formed with different parts of speech. 

 Most frequently the particle ke just spoken of is connected with it. 



hacha chl mucno? which is thy name? 

 chanco (contracted from chanaco) ? whence? wherefrom ? 

 liachamueno (see xupra). 

 hachakene? which? and which? and what? 

 hachakenenco, hacliakenike? and why? 

 hachakenta, hachakentana? liow? how then ? and how? 

 in wiiicii manner? 



Verbs are derived in various ways from substantives, adjectives, or from 

 other verl)s. S(nnc of thr principal derivational endings, particles or forms 

 are as follows : 



