DORSEY-swANTON] THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 123 



Ti ne' kowo'hi tceheMa'', how high is this house? 



House this high (?) how high 



Latci' ko tcehe'da", how tall is Charley ? 



Charles the how tall 



Yaduxta'^' ta'^hi"' natkohi' ndosa^'hi'^ya'^ ti ne'ya° tcehe'da", how 



Wagon running road on this side of house this how high 



high is the house on this side of the railroad ? 

 Yaduxta^' ta^^hi"^' natkohi' ewusa^'hi'^ya"' ti ne'ya'^ tcehe'da'', how 



Wagon running road on that side of house that how high 



high is the house on that side of the railroad ? 

 5 Hake'tu i'ya*", what do they call over yonder ? Ans. , Lamo'ri e'tu, 



How do they over Lamourie it is 



call it yonder called 



it is called "Lamourie." 

 Ti ne' ko ti dehe'da'', that house is as high as this one. 



House that ob. house this high 

 std. 



Ti ne' ko kowo'hi ti ne'di uki'kinge, that house is half as high a.s 



House that ob. high(?) house this half 



std. std. 



this. 

 Ti ne' ko ko'hi ti ne'di ko'hi ke'diki'ni, that house is not as high 



House that ob. high house this high is not so (com- 

 std. std. parison made) 



as this one. 

 Ta" yi'nkiya" e'xti, how far is it to Lecompte? Ta° yi'n^iya" 



Lecompte how far? Lecompte 



ki°hi"' ya°tcede' Lamo'ri tcehe'da", how far is it from Ijecompte 



(?unto) Lamourie how far 



to Lamourie? 

 10 Ta** yi'nkiya° nku'di, I have come from Lecompte. 



Lecompte I have 



come from (?) 



Ta°ya°' nku'di, I have come from Alexandria. 



Alexandria I have 



come from (?) 



Ani' ko skljLti', how deep is this water ? 



Water the how deep 



Sktiti' tcehe'da" nkye'ho^ni, I do not know how deep it is. 



How deep how far I do not know 



Sktiti' yahedi', it is this deep. 



How deep it is this 



15 Skliti' nedi' ko uki'kinge, it is half as deep. 



How deep the std. ob. half 



Sktiti'-xtcitikS' ko e'tike', it is as deep as that water. 



Just that deep the sign of 



comparison 



Ta"^ yi'nkiya'' nki°hi°' nku'di, 1 came to Lecompte and have come 



Lecompte I have come I have 



hither come from 



hither from it. 

 Tcehe'da" hetu', how far or long did they say that it was? (addressed 



How far they said 



to a woman or women.) 

 83515°— Bull. 47—12 ^9 



