1880.] 4o7 [Gatschet. 



inosobo to cause to work, 1o work somebody ; ituhu to pray : itnhusu to 

 cause to pray, to let pray ; uquaso to give to eat ; coso to make, produce ; 

 moso to make, cause ; iquaso, iquase to scream, cry ; iuibiso to drink to 

 excess, he to eat, heso to make eat. 



-so, nominal suffix : he, heno to eat : honoso deer, antelope. 



-ta nominal suffix, forming (1) nomina acti, and other terms : hibuata say- 

 ings, words, ceremonial terms ; uquata body, flesh ; afata chestnut ; aquita 

 maid ; ibine water : hibita river ; pequata bondsman ; hulubota maize-ear. 

 (2) occurring in participles : eta baluta a woman after confinement ; 

 ibirita a female during her period ;, nimota for na emota being hunted ; 

 ene to see : na eneta a seer, one who sees ; heta nacuta adv. immoderately. 



-ta, -to forms transitive verbs : abo stick, aboto to beat with a stick ; isi 

 blood, isito to cause to bleed ; samota to tinge, rub oneself with ; huta to 

 cohabit with. 



Conclusion. 



A retrospective view upon all that could be gathered to this day con- 

 cerning the structure of the Timucua or Atimoke idiom shows it to be 

 remarkably simple as far as its phonet'c structure is concerned, but intri- 

 cate in its morphology. Its syllables consist either of one (long or short) 

 vowel, or of one consonant followed by one vowel. When exceptionally 

 two consonants are joined, some vowel must have been eliminated. The 

 r seems to be a real trilling sound, and not a graphic substitute for some 

 other sound, for it alternates with no other sound but with 1 



This elementary syllabism impresses its character on all the morphologic 

 features of the idiom ; roots, prefixes, suffixes are monosyllabic, or if poly- 

 syllabic, the suffixes at least can be proved to be compounds. A vocalic 

 character is imparted to the language by this elementary syllabism, but 

 whether the idiom was sonorous is still an open question, the solution 

 of which depends on the fact, whether the vowels were pronounced clear 

 or dumb. No doubt the Timucua dialects showed some differences in this 

 particular among themselves. 



The language is thoroughly synthetic in forming the voices of the verb, 

 possesses an affirmative form in -la and a negative form in -ti, and verbals 

 as well as participles are formed by suffixation. Its synthetic structure is 

 also shown by its numerous array of derivational prefixes and suffixes (in 

 this respect Timucua is polysynthetic, not synthetic only), and by a set of 

 postpositions and case-postpositions affixed to the noun. A possessive case 

 does not exist ; possession is indicated by a possessive pronoun added to 

 the sign or term of the proprietor, or by placing the latter before the thing 

 possessed. The other nominal cases are not made clearly distinct from each 

 other by their postpositions. The synthetic character of the idiom is 

 shown also by various suffixes, which serve to form a plural in the noun 

 and in the verb, and by others which impart to the verb a modal or a tem- 

 poral character. 



Timucua is analytic in not incorporating the subject pronouns into the 



