1880.] 48d [Gatschet. 



ponachica viroma ? mama? do you bring a male, female (infant) ? 



balunu nanemima ohuhauela it gives eternal life. 



The adjective, when used attributively, does but in a very few examples 

 agree in its suffix with the substantive it qualifies, and generally has no 

 suffix at all, but stands after the substantive. 



-mate is a postposition joined to nouns, in honosomate cayamatequene, 

 from the deer and from the partridge, Confess, p, 129. 



The possessive pronouns can become suffixed to conjunctions and adverbs 

 just as if they were substantives or participles. Thus the suffix of the 

 second person of the singular, -aya, -aye is met with in examples like the 

 following, which prove that these particles were originally participles or 

 other nominal forms : 



naquostanaye ? in which manner you ? 



chucaya haheno? how often did you eat? 



equelaya haheno chuqua ? how many times a day did you eat? 



The third person of the singular : 



Diosi hebuano nemoquamima emoqua against God's law ; lit. "God'-s 

 law against his against. " 



In participles this is observed as follows : 



orobotanaye one cured by you. 



ara uque napouaye you anointed with bear's grease. 



caqi nia hutanaye that woman with whom you slept. 



ilifotanaye for your killing (deer). 



A syntactic curiosity are the suffixed particles -leqe, -lehe, -ma, -mano, 

 -qe, which are sometimes placed after each word of a series of consecu- 

 tive terms. They serve, no doubt, to establish a connection or reference, 

 or to show mutual coordination of these terms, cf. tacachuleheco, &c, 

 Confess, p. 132 v. ; cuyuleqe, ibid. 



The suffix -qe often serves to connect a principal clause with the princi- 

 pal clause just preceding. 



We also find repatitions of verbs and nouns, which seem quite unneces- 

 sary to us, and embarrassing the sense : 



honoso henomate inti uquabi cho? deer-meat eating did you eat? 



hehanimanda hanibi cho? did you quit to cease eating? 



nia iquimi iquiti mosobi cho? did you insult any women? lit. "to 

 women with insults did you insult-cause?" 



Incorporation. 



There are also a few instances where the nominal object, direct and in- 

 direct, seems to be incorporated into the verb, as it is the rule in the Aztec 

 language. Traces of this have been discovered in many other American 

 languages. Some of the examples below are simply compound words, 

 which differ in nothing from the Greek olxodo/xicu and the Latin animad- 

 verto. 



utihanta one banished from home, exulant ; lit. one yearning (hani) after 

 (his) country (uti). 



