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DAKOTA-ENGLISH. 



ABA 



a, the first letter of the Dakota alphabet. It has 



but one uniform sound, that of a in father. 

 a, an inseparable preposition or prefix. 



1. Prefixed to verbs and adjectives, it usually 



means on or upmi : as, magazu, to rain, 

 amagazu, to rain on ; mani, to walk, amani, 

 to walk on; haq, to stand, ahai), to stand 

 on ; waste, good, awaste, to he good on or 

 in addition to, to become, befit. 



2. In some cases it gives a causative meaning to 



the verb : as, u, to come, au, to bring ; ja, 

 to go, aya, to take. 



3. It forms a collective plural in the case of some 



verbs of motion : as, au, they come ; aya, 

 they go ; ahi, they have arrived. 



4. Prefixed to nouns, it sometimes makes adverbs : 



as, wanica, none, awanin or awaninya, in a 

 destroying way ; paha, a hill, apahaya, hill- 

 like. 



5. It makes nouns of some verbs : as, bapta, to 



cut off from, abapte, a cutting on, caij aba- 

 pte, a cutting-board. 



a, intj. inseparable, expressing incredulity or con- 

 tempt. It is usually followed by ka or kaca : as 

 awaltcka, amalcukaca. 



a, n. the armpit. 



a. V. imperat. only ; hark, listen : a, a wo, a ye ; 

 pi. a po, am, a miye. 



a-a', n. mould. 



a-a', adj. mouldy. 



a-a', V. n. to mould, become mouldy. 



a-a'-mna, v. n. (aa and omna) to sm^ll mouldy. 



a-ba'-hda, v. a. to shave off with a knife, as the fat 

 from guts, — abawahda, abayahda. 



a-ba'-hda-hda, v. red. of abahda. 



a-ba'-ka, v. a. (a and baka) to cut or split the 

 feather from a quill ; fig. to be straight or with- 

 out wrong doing ; abakapi se wauij, — abawaka. 



a-ba'-ke-za, v. a. (a and bakeza) to cut off smooth, 



as a feather for an arrow, — abawakeza, abaya- 



keza. 

 a-ba'-kpar), v. a. (a and bakpai)) to cut fine 



on, make fine on, as in cutting tobacco : cai) 



abakpai), a tobacco-board, — abawakpai), abaya- 



kpai). 

 a-ba'-ksa, v. a. (a and baksa) to cut off, as a 



stick, on any thing, loith a knife, — abawaksa, 



abauijksapi. 

 a-ba'-ksa-ksa, v. red. of abaksa. 

 a-ba'-ksis, v. cont. of abakiiza : abaksis iyeya, 



to double or shut up, as a knife, on any thing. 

 a-ba'-ksi-za, v. a. (a and baksiia) to shut up on, 



as a pocket-knife, — abawaksiia, abayaksiza. 

 a-ba'-ke-za, v. a. (a ant^ bakeza) to split the fea- 

 ther end of a quill ; to cut off, as the ribs of an 



animal on, — abawakeza, abaya^eza, abauijke- 



zapi. 

 a-ba'-mda-za, v. a. (a and bamdaza) to cut or 



rip open on, — abawamdaza, abayamdaza, abauij- 



mdazapi. 

 a-ba'-mde-ca, v. a. (a and bamdeca) to break 



by cutting on any thing, as something brittle ; to 



cut up in pieces on, — abawamdeca, abayamdec'a, 



abaurjmdecapi. 

 a-ba'-mden, v. cont. of abamdeca: abamden 



iyeya. 

 a-ba'-pon, cont. of abapota. 

 a-ba'-po-ta, v. a. (a and bapota) to cut in pieces 



on, destroy on any thing, by cutting with a knife, 



— abawapota, abayapota, abauqpotapi. 

 a-ba'-psa-ka, v. a. (a and bapsaka) to cut off on, 



as a cord or string, with a knife, — abawapsaka, 



abayapsaka, abauijpsakapi. 

 a-ba'-pta, v. a. (a and bapta) to cut off from, as 



a piece ; to cut on, as clothes on a board, — aba- 



wapta, abayapta, abauijptapi. 



