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Prefixes of Derivation. 



Prefixes subservient to the formation of derivatives are not numerous and 

 cannot be easily confounded with syllables entering into the composition of 

 compound words. The demonstrative pronoun na, which we can often 

 render by our definite article the, coalesces in some instances with the word 

 following it after losing its accent, and the same is true of the pronoun 

 chi thou ; but these are not prefixes. 



i-, verbal prefix : iquaso, iquase to screech., scream ; ipavu to swallow (?) 

 iquileno in iquilnona married to the sister of my wife ; iquiti to insult, 

 abuse; ko, ccso and ike to make, do, to cause to. 



i-, nominal prefix : ichini and chilli nose, nostrils ; iti father ; isa mother; 

 isale sister of mother, itori subsequent to : iquini breast, udder, milk ; ibine 

 water, lake. 



\u-, yo-, a prefix equivalent to our through, across or by, near, past ; yu- 

 bueha, yubehe to transfix, pierce ; yuquiso to deposit on the side of ; yoqua 

 past, bygone. 



ni-, verbal prefix : mero hot, nimaru to preserve one's heat ; naquila to 

 perfume, ninaquilasi to perfume ; pona to come, niponosi to return to ; ivicu 

 to drink, ninacu to ask for a drink. 



si-, verbal prefix of a medial signification, which frequently adds to the 

 verbal base the idea of " for oneself" and is sometimes reflective. Siqi or 

 siqisa in siqisama my father, lit. "the one who procreated me," cf. siqita 

 pahana all people belonging to my house, family ; uque oil, grease, suquoni 

 to rub something on oneself (for si uquoni). 



Suffixes of Dekivatiox. 



A short examination of the specimens of Timucua given by me in the 

 "Proceedings" will prove to readers that this language is in a high degree 

 polysynthetic, not only in its signs or sjdlables of relation (inflectional 

 forms), but also in derivational forms. Often one and the same syllable 

 serves as an inflectional and as a derivational form, and it is a peculiarity 

 of this language that these forms can occur in the form of whole syllables 

 only, either single or double. 



Suffixes are more numerous than prefixes. They are either inflectional 

 or derivational. The latter alone will be considered in this chapter, and 

 although the number of them as given here is rather small, Timucua forms 

 a much larger number of them by combination. To define accurately the 

 functions and origin ot them all, is what a full grammar of this Floridian 

 language will perhaps one day be able to give. 



-ba, nominal suffix : hiyaraba lion ; nariba and naribua old (of persons ; 

 from na ariba) ; hibe louse ; soba meat, deer-meat. 



-bale, identical with -male, Proc. 1878, p. 497. 



-bo, verbal suffix forming transitive verbs : tinibo to pierce, perforate ; 

 iniso and inisobo to make somebody work ; aboto and abotobo to beat with 

 a stick ; orobo and oroboni to cure, heal, to treat for sickness. 



-cha, -chi suffixed to nouns is not a real suffix ; it is the relative particle 



