Brinton.] 4J4 Dec. 5, 



he was lost kawv'tege, or kawvtsagii 



we two don't want to be lost awe'nu wvthvkes ekusattvtvnea' 



I having gone, when you 



you come back, I again 



will go paktek kvbvsa'hkup tvge'ha hvmv maa'tek 



I am he, or that one many ta'v 



you are he, or that one manv pvna'a 



he is that one maua a 



they are those manv pvmpeya 



do you think it is he ? mana a yepvnuwv ? 



It will be seen that many of the words in the above vocabulary are 

 compounds. Thus was, apparently a generic term for a certain class of 

 animals, appears in the words wvs-tan cow, wvs tanenu calf, was tanem 

 buffalo, wvs kup dog, was kv'lkul toad, wvs kup-se'l horse, and by elision 

 of the last consonant in we nvtu cat (wvs e'ntu teeth'? 1 , and we 'le ant. 

 I know of no such root in the Ckahta-Miiskoke dialects, but in the Yuche 

 we have a similar series in the form we, we-tene cow, we-yu deer, we-eyu 

 chicken, we-chaw hog, which latter seems the Natchez kweh-se'l hog 

 (se'l the augmentative). 



The termination kuyv seems to be similarly generic for edible vegeta- 

 bles, as ka'kuyv corn, yewVs kuyv pumpkin, yewes kvyap water-melon 

 (compare yewes kmvtvk muskmelon). 



U'wvh, fire, otherwise spelled wah, and oua, appears in kwahsep, 

 wah sil or oua chil sun, kwa'hsep kvhap moon, wahiloolne G. hot, 

 (from u'wvh, and luhu, place) . 



A'tv, foot, forms by addition at'vntchv heel, atwen'chev calf of the leg 

 (wen' tchv, meat or flesh), atkahkvr leg, popatse shoes. 



Wihih earth, wih salt, and owih sugar, seem allied, the two latter sub- 

 stances probably being regarded as some kinds of earth. 



The name of God given by Gallatin is evidently from helekse'nes 

 breath, aud is doubtless a translation of the Mas. E svketv emise, Master 

 of Breath. My informants distinctly say the Nache contains no word 

 for God, of native origin. 



The accented e before words denoting parts of the body (see mouth, 

 hand, hair, ear, teeth) occurs also in Mas. , where it is usually translated 

 his, or the, as impersonal. The terminal nesoo is also the possessive form 

 from ne, he. 



The words for thunder and lightning are distinctly onomatopoetic. 



In several instances totally different words are given in the two vocabu- 

 laries, as for arm, bird, boy, chief, night, etc. These doubtless express 

 different but allied ideas. 



There are but few plural forms. The word tvluen, many, is generally 

 used with the singular to form the plural, as lekep tvluen. Diminutives 



