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The San Ildefonso, Nambe, and San Juan dialects have wa-si; the 
Tesuque and Santa Clara dialects waga. The Hano Tewa name is 
unknown. Both wa'st and wa'ga may be adapted from Navaho 
wéegafi, ‘cow,’ or wa'st may come from Navaho wégafi and wa ga 
directly from Spanish vaca. The Franciscan fathers ' give Navaho 
‘“bégashi”’ as derived from Spanish vaca (in their spelling vacca or 
bacea, influenced by Latin vacca?) plus an element ‘shi.’ The Zuni 
name is wdkashi. 
A milch cow is called wa: po-wa'si (wa’, breast; po’, water; wast, 
cow) or wa'powa'ga (wa’, breast; po’, water; wa'gd, cow). <A cas- 
trated ox or steer is called wejé (<Span. buey), and a bull todw- 
(<Span. toro). To use wa'sise’y, ‘male cow’ (wa'si, cow; s¢'y, male) 
is likely to make a Tewa smile. The young of the species is desig- 
nated by adding the diminutive ’e to wa'si, wa'ga, weje, todu, ete. 
Dehorned cattle are frequently called peluy (<Span. pelon). 
The Tewa keep a considerable number of cattle and use the milk 
as well as the flesh and other products. Women usually do the 
milking. Cattle dung (wa’sisa’ or wagasa:) is considered the superior 
sort for kneading into the cakes used in firing pottery. 
Petsuse. 
Swine. 
This word is applied to either sex of swine, or the ordinary sex-age 
elements may be added. 'Tewa petsuve is possibly borrowed from 
or at least of the same origin as Navaho “bisédé,” ‘swine’.?- The Fran- 
ciscan fathers say of the swine: “It was most likely first brought 
to their (i. e., the Navahos’) country from Old Mexico, as the name, 
bis6d8, a corruption of the Aztec pitsotl, seems to indicate.” None of 
the common New Mexican Spanish words for swine (marrano, cochino, 
puerco, marrana, cochina, puerca) is used much in Tewa speech. 
The Tewa keep a few swine in sties and are very found of the flesh. 
’Elep‘ayte (<Span.: elefante). 
Elephant. 
The trunk of the elephant is called simply fw, ‘nose’. 
Nwi'y tsi’, ‘white rat,’ (ywi'y, rat, mouse; ts, white). 
Domestic White Rat. 
One of our informants knew of these animals and their use as pets. 
1 Franciscan Fathers, Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language, St. Michaels, Ariz., 1910, p. 143. 
2 Tbid., p. 142. 
