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'Ohi, 'down,' 'Huff.' 



Pdb\^ 'flower,' 'fruit of the box-elder,' 'fluff of cotton wood seeds.' 

 Thus: teje^iiptJb^b, ' box-elder seed ' of flower-like appearance {tejedi^ 

 box-elder; 2>db\ flower); tedq'poWi^ ' cotton wood flufi'' {teM^ cotton- 

 wood seed-pod; poVi^ flower). The latter is called also te^iiCoku 

 i^oku, down). 



Pu., 'base,' 'buttocks,' 'root,' 'stem.' Pu is used of the stem of 

 fruit. Thus: hepu., 'stem of fruit' (Sc, apple, introduced fruit; 

 pu^ base, stem); tmnpu, 'stem of a seed' {tay, seed; ^i^, base, 

 stem). But cf. ¥apu below. 



/"«, 'ear-wax,' 'the rough surface of tanned deerskin,' 'the bloom 

 on the surface of fruits and plants.' Thus: ^uMfa, 'the bloom 

 or fine bluish dust on the surface of a grape' Cuba, grape; /a, 

 ear-wax, bloom). 



Te^Q, ' unripe or ripe seed-pod of the female cotton wood of any species.' 

 When these burst, white fluff' comes forth from them which is 

 called tMQpobl {pdb\ flower) or te^i^oku (^oku, down). 



Tu, 'kernel of a seed.' Commonly used compounds are tq.ntu, 'kernel 

 of a seed' {tqrj, seed; tu, kernel), and foz!i^, 'kernel of a nut' (^ 

 pinon nut, nut; tu^ kernel). Tu, 'kernel,' has a level tone; tu, 

 'flesh,' has a circumflex tone. 



K^s^y, 'meal,' 'flour,' 'ground-up seeds.' 



K'owa, 'skin,' 'tegument,' 'shell,' 'husk,' 'bark.' Thus: ioFoim, 

 'nut shell' {to, pifion nut, nut; Fotva, skin, shell); Fo^ieFowa, 

 'husk of ear of corn' {¥ode, ear of corn; ¥owa, skin, husk). 



K^apu, 'handle' of anything, 'stem of an ear of corn.' With refer- 

 ence to plants the term appears to be used only of the stem of 

 an ear of corn, being equivalent to h\ue¥apu, 'stem of an ear 

 of corn' {Ji'o'ie, ear of corn; k'apni, handle, stem of corn ear). 

 The second syllable of k'apic appears to be pu, base. Stem of 

 ear of corn would hardly be called Vod,epu. 



Tseii, 'core,' of apple, pear, etc; 'pith.' See page 24. 



Kii7j, 'wing,' 'corncob.' For 'corncob' the frequent compound is 

 h'iUekyjT), 'corncob' {¥o>ie, ear of corn; Iciirj, wing of bird or 

 other flying creature, cob). Kilt) occurs also as second member of 

 jpek^'T), 'bone' {p^e, stick, long hard thing; Ic^y, wing, cob). 

 Whether hiin) may be said of skeleton-like parts of other plants 

 was not ascertained. 



Of a flower going to seed the Tewa say: TiQpdbltq.mpuwamsRy, 'the 

 flower goes to seed' (/ig, it; ^wSl, flower; tqy, seed; puwa, to become; 

 msRy, to go). The ordinary adjective denoting ripeness is pe. Thus: 

 to pe'iy, 'ripe pinon nut' {to, piiion nut; pe, ripe); to pepi^iy, 'un- 



