1877.] 639 [Gatschet. 



tainly more correctly than they are found in the original. A good orthog- 

 raphy cannot be established before the idiom is thoroughly understood. 



In studying and analyzing the words of Timucua, the same idea 

 obtruded itself to me, which occurs so often to students of the South Afri- 

 can and of some Western American languages : " A7'6 not all the words, even 

 their radical syllables, built up of pronominal roots V 



Words and Sentences. 



I have placed here in alphabetical order some of the vocables, the mean- 

 ing of which I have ascertained through careful comparisons of the pas- 

 sages in which they occur. Some of the words which I have mentioned in 

 the grammatical notices, the numerals, f. i., I have omitted in this table, 

 abo maize, corn -plant. 



abopaha corn-crib. Span, garita. 



aboto stick, staff ; to beat with a stick : anoco abotobi cho ? did you 

 beat somebody ? 

 acu all, every ; acu caki all this, acu kelata in the same manner, exactly 



so. 

 afata chestnut ; afataco hebeta for gathering chestnuts, 

 aha acorn. 



apu grape of palmetto, palmetto-berries, 

 aquita maid, aquitasiqe virgin, damsel, 

 ara bear ; ara-hasomi those forming the Bear-Pedigree, 

 aruqui child, descendant. 



cuyu-hasomi aroki descendants of the Fish-Pedigree or family of fish ; 



aruqui-lehe he was born, 

 atofa owl. 

 atulu arrow, 

 balu, valu life ; balu nenemi eternal life. 



eta baluta after a (recent) confinement, 

 bohono to believe, 

 caya chicken, partridge, turkey. 



camapata to fish ; c. ibiuoma to fish in the lake or lagoon, 

 coro the same ; uti nocoromale those belonging to the same country, 

 cuyu fish. 



chebe to lose ; hachibueno chebeque, h. chebuamano something lost, 

 chini nose, nostrils. 



chiri small, young, chiricoviro boy, son (lit. little man, young man) chirico 

 nia daughter, both used only by their parents; chirima, amita chirico 

 my youngest daughter. Related to chale new. 

 chofa liver. 



chuca? how many times? (from cha, liacha? who? what? which?) 

 eke, equela day. 

 hasomi lineage, pedigree. 



caya-hasomi chicken-pedigree. 



ara-hasomi Bears' lineage. 



