DORSET-swANTON] THE BTLOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 53 



tci' nanki' dande' o'^'ni xye'ni si'^to' yandi ksi'?: wa'di dupa'x 



they [sit] in future sign past sign but boy the (sub. ) bad very opened [the 



the [= were going to] door] 



20 ka" akuwe' ade' o°ni'. E'keo^'nidi' ayo']j:a yuke' xa. O'^'ti ya° 



when they got out they in the past. Therefore, swamp they are usually. Bear the 



went 



h6' ti tci' nank o"^'!!! xye'ni ehe'deko" akuvve'ye. Ita' ya" 



too house they sit in (past sign) but just so he did he turned them Deer the 



out. 



ehe'deko'^ akuwe'ye. Si°to'-di ksi'hu wa'di e'tiko"'tu o'^xa'. 



just so he did he turned them out. Boy (sub.) bad very they did so regularly 



in the past. 



Ekeka"' ka'hena'ni ayo'ka yuke' xa. Etu xa'. 



Andthen(or so many things swamp they are usually. They say usually. 

 Because so) 



NOTES 



This is all that the informant could remember; hence there is no 

 information about the ""bad boy" of line 19. 



1. aymk-ta^ compare hayinki^ "stock, horses, cattle;" i^dahi- 

 ye-daha^ "he caused some [one] to seek them." 



2. max hide shows that Kuti maflkde continued sending messen- 

 gers for the Indians until {kide) they came ; iHoho, contracted from 

 ma, "sun;" toko, "to recline." 



3. ey i'^hi^ = e'ya^ i^'hi^. 



4-5. Ylnisadi ti dex-towe 7iax ka^^ etc. Yhiisadi is subject of 

 dex-towe, "the Buffaloes filled the house," nax refers to the house. 

 do^hiyxike, "the Indians were looking at the house;" "they were look- 

 ing at them" [the Buffaloes], would have been, dd^Tii-daha yuke or 

 dd^x-daha yuke, 



9. ka"^ "when," should be inserted between dujpaxi and kaiaa 

 niki. 



12. eukade ide yiike: the exact sense of eukade is uncertain ; ide 

 yuke, "they were falling of their own accord." The flashes of light- 

 ning alarmed the Indians so much that they kept falling. iHcpe- 

 daha ande, Kuti laaftkde was laughing at their terror; duxtuxta^ ako 

 deye, "to pull them out of it;" daxta^ ako deye also means "to pull him 

 out of it," and duxtuxta^ seems to be frequentative (as if dux-du-xta^^ 

 instead of duxtd^xta"^), from duxta'^ (see xta"^). 



14. doxjpe-di, di sign of the subject: "many garments were stand- 

 ing there," i. e., were piled up. 



15. ayoyuxtu, as if from oyuhi, instead of ayoyixtu from oyihi,' 

 yihixti, pronounced yUd-[-xti. 



16. kahi, 3d pi. of kudi; ki^hd^xa, contracted from kl'^hi^ d^xa. 



17. do'^hi'^ {dd^); ahiHketa^ {=ahisk&), "to be greedy, covetous." 

 19. ksix<.ksihu of 22; ti tci nanki, etc. Tci is probably from 



tcidi^ "they recline" {<to/io), but as nanki refers to a sitting object, 

 perhaps 7nanki, "the reclining object," or amanki, "the objects," 

 should be substituted after tci in 19 and 21. 



