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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 postjoined. 



As applied to ioioa, 'human beings.' the following age-sex nouns 

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

 understood. 



'£"-, 'child/ 'son,' 'daughter'; 2+ plural 'e'n^-. 



'A'^nu'Tce', 'young girl'; 2+ plural ^a^nwye'TisR'. 



'E'^nu'Jce', 'young boy'; 2+ plural 'e'^nu-ife'nse' . 



'A'"'hu-, 'girl at adolescence'; 2+ plural 'a'^ny,-7j. 



'E'^nw, 'boy at adolescence'; 2+ plural 'e'^ny,'7j. 



Kwi' , 'woman in prime'; 2+ plural Icwrn^'^rj. 



Sq'V, 'man in prime'; 2+ plural s^'yns^'^ij. 



Kwvjo', 'old woman'; 2+ plural Tcwvjo-. The singular has falhng 

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

 tion in the second syllable. 



Srydo', 'old man'; 2+ plural s^-yda'. 



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

 of 'e is 'e', the singular ha\dng falhng, the 2+ plural circumflex, intona- 

 tion, and 'e'^nu'Jce' and '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 

 TcaJbajukwi' , 'horse female' (kabajii, horse; hvr , female), and jewa 

 (< Spanish yegua) meaning 'mare'. 



Barring words of Spanish origin, onl}^ 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 ps^'^e', 'httle mule deer' (ps^', mule deer; 'e', diminutive).^ 



Perhaps the majority of Tewa animal names are unetymologizable. 

 There are not many instances where more than one name is applied 

 to ail animal species. The additional name is regularly descriptive. 

 Thus owls may be called mghy,7j, or tsiso'jo', 'big eyes '(fei, 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 poseqwas^' y^o' , an 

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

 the German calls the bear ' hdr ' or 'Pets ' , the Russian calls the bear 

 'mkdv^ed^' or MH/Tca, and Bruin, Petz, MHfIca 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 all. Poseqwas^ydo' , applied to the coyote, is the 

 only exception discovered thiis far. 



1 Of. the two Tewa names for 'milkweed ' at different stages of its growth, in Bulletin 65, Bur. Amer. Ethn. 



