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THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 



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do'"^daha^, to look at them {Vdo'"'da- 

 ha^, ndo^^daha^; do'^^xtudaha', Vdo'"'xtu- 

 dg.ha\ ndo''"^xtudahctf). ema^^ ido''^da- 

 ha^ na\ beware lest you look at them, 

 do not look at them! (Bk., M.). 2/'^- 

 doi^daha^, he saw you (pi.)- nyVdo'"'- 

 daha\ I saw you ( pi. ) • yVdo^xtu^daha^, 

 they saw you (pi.). nyVdonxtu^daha', 

 we saw you (pi.). ya'''-'do'"'daha\ 

 thou (you) saw us. ya'"^ do'"'Xtu''daha^ , 

 you (pi. ) saw us. In one instance, M. 

 gave yi'>^^doi^daha^, "we see you;" but 

 this must have been owing to a mis- 

 understanding. In like manner, for 

 yVdo^daha^ (5= 2), read, nyi^ do'^daha' , 

 I see you (pi.). WxkidonhV, to see 

 himself, to look at himself {yVxkido'"'- 

 hV, nkVxkido'"'hi^; ii^ xkido'"'Xtu' , yVx- 

 kido'"'Xtu^, nW xkido'^'Xtu' ) . kido'^^hiyS, to 

 sh ow an obj ect to another ( kido'"'' hihaye^, 

 kidoi^kihunM'). kido''>'niiny^^ , 1 show 

 it to you. kido'f'niiyanke' , he shows it 

 to me. kido'''''hiya'nk pVhedi, will he 

 show it to me? tohana'k ya^kido'"^hi- 

 yankV, you showed it to me yesterday. 

 kido'"''hiyanka\ show it to me! aki- 

 do''''hi (?), to be looking at one another. 

 a^kMo'^'xtu^, they looked at one 

 another (?). a^kidon^xtu xa^, we are all 

 looking at one another ( N. B. : kitu and 

 hiHu become xtu in the plural; xa is 

 usually a sign of past time) . do'"'^ xehe^ , 

 "sits to see," the sights of a gun. 

 o'n^do'"'ho'"'nV, " what is used for looking 

 at or seeing," a mirror. o'"'do''>'ho'"'^ 

 xwddatV, "to see with light from out- 

 side," window glass. — u^dunahV, to face 

 an object or place (ayu^dunahV, nku^- 

 dunahV). nyu'dunahV, I face you. 

 aye'wi ko u^dunahV, he faces the door. 

 yaflku^dunahV, he faces me. hi'yanku'- 

 dunahi^, thou (you) face me {also 

 14: 26). ka^dohonnV, not to see, to be 

 blind {kaya^ doho'"-ni\ nka^ doho'"-nV ; 

 ka^dohoHuni^ ( =ka'do'"'XlunV), kaya^do- 

 hoMuni^ , nka^ dohoHunV ) . siHo' ka^do- 

 ho'"-nV idon^ho'"', did you see the blind 

 boy? ndo'n'ni, I have not seen him or 

 her. ndo'n''ni xya^, I have not yet seen 

 him or her. kMo'^'^ni, not to see it, her 

 or him {ku'yudo'n-'ni, ndo'"''ni; kudo'''-^tii- 

 nV, ku^yudo''^tu7iV,ndon^tunV). nyido''*'^- 

 ni, I do (or did) not see you. ku^ya'"- 



do'f^ni, he (or you) did not see me. 

 kAdo'"'' dahanV , not to see them {ku^yu- 

 do'^'^dahanV, ndo'"^ dahanV ; k{ido'"^daha'- 

 tunV, ku^yudo'"'^ daha'tunV , ndo'i^daha^- 

 tunV) . nyido'>^dahan'/, I do not see you 

 (pi. ). nyido''^daha^tunV,we do (or did) 

 not see you (pi.). h/yando'f^dnhanV , 

 he or you do (or did) not see us. 

 kii/yando'"'' dahaHunV , they or you (pi.) 

 do (or did) not see us. ka'donxtunV, 

 they are blind. — adonJdn^, his or her 

 face {aya'donhii^, unka' do^hW ; afdo^- 

 xtu\ aya' do'^'Xtu' , uiika' do'"-xtu' . (Also 

 10: 7; 14: 16, 18, 22; 17: 3, 9, 12, 16; 

 19: 17; 20: 23, 39; 22: 3, 9; 23: 6; 

 24: 3, 5, 13; 25: 2; 26: 20, 41, 75, 80, 

 82; 28: 33, 59, 66, 69, 75, 132, 134, 135, 

 164, 166, 188, 192, 207, 246; 29: 1, 30, 

 37, 41; 31: 20, 34; p. 166: 10, 11, 12, 

 13, 14, 15, 16.) 



du-, prefix indicating action by means of 

 the hands. 



du, to go around, to circle, to wrap. — 

 aduye (masc. word), to wrap a cord, 

 etc., several times around an object 

 {adu'haye', adu^hunke^). aduhi''>'ye, I 

 wrap it around thee, aduyanke, thou 

 dost wraj) it around me. adu, (he) 

 went around it (7 : 2). adudu^di, 

 (it) was flying around and around 

 (28: 62). — adu^yaxan^ (fem. word), to 

 wrap a cord etc., several times around 

 an object (said to a female) [adu^- 

 hayaxa'"', adu^hunkaxan^) . — adu'di 

 {=apeni), to go around or wrap around 

 an object {aya'dudi, nka^dudl; adutu', 

 aya'dutu', nka^dutu^) (7: 5). — adu^- 

 so'"'sa' {=adudi-\-so'"'sa), to wrap a cord 

 once around an object {ayadu^so'"'Sa^, 

 nkadu^so'^sa'). nyadu^ so'"'Sa% I wrap 

 once around you. — duwe', to untie, un- 

 wrap (Vduwe, ndu^ive). kulmve^, to 

 untie another, as by his request to untie 

 his property (for him) (?/a^A;idii we'', axki- 

 duwe^; kidu'imtu^, ya'kiduwetu', a^xki- 

 duwetu'). nyVkiduwe^ I untied you. 

 nyiklduwa' dunde', I will untie you. 

 ewande^ ya''>'xk'iduw¥, he untied me. 

 ayindV ya'"'xMduw¥, you untied me. 

 ndohu^ ya'^'xkiduiDa' , come right to me 

 (and) untie me! (3:21). — aduhi', afence. 

 aduxtca'tiaduhV , a rail fence. hayliikV 

 aduhV, a stock fence. aduhV ndom''^- 



