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Seeman ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS t. 
animal name'does not show sex or age of the animal to which it refers 
unless one of these age-sex nouns is postjoined. 
As applied to fowd, ‘human beings,’ the following age-sex nouns 
are used, and used alone, the word towa being regularly omitted and 
understood. 
of “ebild)”“son,? ee sens plur: al ’e-fix’. 
A’ Hw ke , “young girl’; 2+ plural ’a’*iwy’ ene. 
’E’enu'ke, ‘young boy’; 2+ plural ’e’*nyy’ erie’. 
"A’*w', ‘girl at adolescence’ ; 2+ plural ’a@’¢iy'y. 
’H’enw’, ‘boy at adolescence’ ; 2+ plural ’e’énw'y. 
Kwv, ‘woman in prime’; 2+ plural kwi ize’? y. 
Sey, ‘man in prime’; 2+ plural se-yre’?y. 
Kwr jo’, ‘old woman’; 2+ plural kwi:jo°. The singular has falling 
intonation in the second syllable, the 2+ plural has circumflex intona- 
tion in the second syllable. 
Seydo', ‘old man’; 2+ plural seyda’. 
When these age-sex nouns are applied to lower animals the plural 
of ’e ise’, the singular having falling, the 2+ plural circumflex, intona- 
tion, and ’e’¢nu‘ke: and ’a’¢nu'ke: and their plurals are not used. 
In the case of animal-denoting names which have been borrowed 
from the Spanish, sex and age are denoted both by the Tewa method 
of postjoming sex-age nouns and by the Spanish method of employing 
different endings or different words. One hears, for instance, both 
kabajukwi', ‘horse female’ (kabaju, horse; kwi:, female), and jew 
(<Spanish yegua) meaning ‘mare’. 
Barring words of Spanish origin, only one instance is known of a 
special word being employed to signify the young of a species of 
animal. This is mdgé, ‘young of the mule deer,’ which can also be 
called px’’e’, ‘little mule deer’ (pe’, mule deer; ’e*, diminutive) .1 
Perhaps the majority of Tewa animal names are unetymologizable. 
There are not many instances where more than one name is applied 
to an animal species. The additional name is regularly descriptive. 
Thus owls may be called mghuy, or tsiso’jo-, ‘big eyes ’(tsi, eye; 
so’jo", big). The Franciscan Fathers have recorded many additional 
names of this kind from the Navaho. 
We find no unetymologizable additional names of animals like our 
European Kosenamen or Sagenamen, unless it be poseqwase'ydo-, an 
additional name of de’, coyote. Thus we call the bear ‘bear’ or ‘Bruin’, 
the German calls the bear ‘bdr’ or ‘Petz’, the Russian calls the bear 
‘miedviédi’ or Mi fka, and Bruin, Petz, Mii fka have no etymology 
known to the people. But the Tewa call the bear ke: and only ke’, 
or if there is an additional name it is descriptive and its etymology 
is understood by all. Poseqwase-ydo:, applied to the coyote, is the 
only exception discovered thus far. 
1Cf. the two Tewa names for ‘milkweed’ at different stages of its growth, in Bulletin 55, Bur. Amer. Ethn. 
