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animal name does not show sex or age of the animal to which it refers 

 unless one of these age-sex nouns is post joined. 



As applied to Iowa, human beings, the following age-sex nouns 

 are used, and used alone, the word iowa being regularly omitted and 

 understood. 



E-, child/ son/ daughter ; 2+ plural e n% . 



A a nu lce , young girl ; 2+ plural a a nu rfe n% . 



E e nu ~ke , young boy ; 2+ plural e e nu y e n%- . 



A a nu , girl at adolescence ; 2+ plural a a ny, y. 



E e nu , boy at adolescence ; 2+ plural e e nu y. 



Kwi , woman in prime ; 2+ plural 



Spy, man in prime ; 2+ plural g 



Kwi jo , old woman ; 2+ plural Jcwi jo . The singular has falling 

 intonation in the second syllable, the 2+ plural has circumflex intona 

 tion in the second syllable. 



Se-y$o , old man ; 2+ plural se/yda . 



When these age-sex nouns are applied to lower animals the plural 

 of e is V , the singular having falling, the 2+ plural circumflex, intona 

 tion, and e e nu ke and a a nu lce 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 postjoining sex-age nouns and by the Spanish method of employing 

 different endings or different words. One hears, for instance, both 

 kaJtiajukwi , horse female (kdbaju, horse; Icwi , female), and jewa 

 (&amp;lt; 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 mage, young of the mule deer/ which can also be 

 called p& e j little mule deer (p%&quot;, 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 mqhuy, 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 poseqwasej y^o , an 

 additional name otde , coyote. Thus we call the bear bear or Bruin , 

 the German calls the bear bar or Petz , the Russian calls the bear 

 miedviedi or MiifJca, and Bruin, Petz, M^ifka have no etymology 

 known to the people. But the Tewa call the bear Ice and only Ice , 

 or if there is an additional name it is descriptive and its etymology 

 is understood by ah 1 . Posegwase-ydo , applied to the coyote, is the 

 only exception discovered thus far. 



1 Cf. the two Tewa names for milkweed at different stages of its growth, in Bulletin 5.5, Bur. A mrr. Ethn. 



