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THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 



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32; 11: 3; 26: 21; 28: 209; 29: 32; 

 31: 39.) 



teak, tcakaii, where. — tcaha'^andelia'^ 

 {=tcakan-\-ande-^ ?), where is it? — 

 tca^ka'f'Tnanki^, w'here is the horizontal 

 inanimate object? h(/itoh(/ ko tca^kan- 

 mankV, where is the log? a^^se^wi yd'"' 

 xaV' ko tca^ka'"'manW, where is the ax? 

 spdehi^ yan xan ko tcafka'"'manW, where 

 is the knife? mikon^ni ya'"' xa'"' ko tca^- 

 ka'^manW, where is the hoe? yanke^- 

 o'"-nV yoP- xa'<^ ko tcafka'"'mavMf , where 

 is the saw? — tcakan^ mankiha''^ , where is 

 the reclining animate object? a^ya' 

 tox ma^nki ko tcaka'^'^mankiha'"'^ , where 

 is the reclining man? — tca'kannank.i'' 

 ( ^tcaka'"' j-nanki), where is the curvi- 

 linear object? an^sudi oi^yan xa^^ ko- 

 tca^ka'"'nankV , where is the pine forest? — 

 tcakna^nkiha'"', where is the sitting ani- 

 mate object? awyff'' xi^he na^nki ko icak- 

 na^nkihan, where is the sitting man? — 

 Icaksinndnnehan^ , where is the standing 

 animate object? a^yaf si'^^hi'"' n^ ko 

 tcaksin^hi''^neha''i^, where is the standing 

 person? — tcafkannedi^ ( = tcaka^ -\-ne-\- 

 -di), where is the standing object? tV 

 ko tca^koT^nedV, where is the house? 

 aya'"'^ ko tca^ka'"'nedi^ , where is the 

 (standing) tree? yaduxta'"'^ ko tca^ka^- 

 nedV, where is the wagon? tohoxka^ 

 ya'"' xa'"^ tca^ka^nedV , where is the 

 horse? — tcaka'^^nine^da'"', where is the 

 walking animate object? ai^ya^ icakan^- 

 nine^dan, where is the walking man? — 

 tcakian'^hinha''ndedan ( =tcakan^{anhin 

 -\-ha7ide-\-f), where is the running 

 animate object? ««?/f/ tcakta'"^hinha^n- 

 dedan, where is the running man? — 

 tca'ka'" yandeha^^, what kind of man 

 are you? (sic), tcanef, where is it? 

 (28: 196) (for tcalanf). iVno^pa^ ko teak 

 ha^maki, where are the two (standing) 

 houses? aya""^ no'^jM^ ko teak ha'maki, 

 where are the two (standing) trees? 

 ha^itoho^ no'^-pa' ko teak Jia^maki, where 

 are the two logs? {Also 10: 12; 26: 

 22, 67; 27: 20, 23; 29: 15.) 



teak. — tcaWdi, to hang up an object on 

 a nail or post, as a coat, hat, or an 

 almanac through which a string has 

 been run {tcakhayedi, tcakhankedi; teuk- 

 etu, tcakhayetu, tcakhanketu). akae' 



tcakedV, to hang up a hat. akiltxyV 

 tcaWdi na^nki patekc^, to take a book 

 from the place where it hanga {—akii- 

 txyV patck(^ dusi^). aktdxyV dusV de- 

 ha'"^ tcakedi'', to take a book and go to 

 hang it up (on a nail), dusl^ dehan^ 

 kyukihi'"' tcakedV, take it off (the nail), 

 and then take it back and hang it up! 

 do^xpS (naske^) tcakedi^, to hang up a 

 coat on a nail ( —xtheyS). — tcaktcaWdi, 

 to hang up several objects {tcaktca^k-ha- 

 ye^di, teaktca^k-hanke^di). tcaktea'ke, 

 (he) hung them up (31: 29). e^ya^ 

 kVdihan kulunV da tcaktca^ke lia'maki, 

 when he reached home, he gathered a 

 lot of young canes and hung them up 

 (2: 2, 3); said of a single agent, though 

 "hamaki" generally refers to a collec- 

 tion of persons. 



tca^ka, notched (once), i.e., having a 

 single notch. — tcdkted^ka, notched in 

 many places. — kdutcd'ka [J. O. D. sus- 

 pects that it should be dulcdka, the h 

 being the objective sign]: ayan^ kdu- 

 tcd^ka, to cut a notch in wood with a 

 knife {aya'"^ Vdutcd^ka, ayan^ ndutcd^ka; 

 aya'"^ kdutcdktu^, ayd"^ i''dutedkti/,ayai^ 

 ndu^tcdktu^). Imperatives: aya'"^ kdu- 

 tcdka^ (to a child); ayoV kdutcdkatkV 

 (man to woman); aya'"^ kdutedkakanko^ 

 (man to man). — kdutcd^ktcdka^ ; ayan^ 

 kdutcd^ktcuka^ , to cut notches in wood 

 with a knife {aya^^ V dutedktcdka^ , 

 ayan^ ndw'tcdktcdka^ ; aya^^ kdutcd^kledk- 

 tu'', aya'"^ Vduted^ktcdkt^/, aya'"^ ndi/- 

 tcdktcdktii^). 



tcaki^, thick. — /a«^ tedkV, thick hair. 



tcaxku^, oak. — tcaxkw' rrilska^, the 

 "small" or "fine oak": probably the 

 blue-jack oak or Quercus cmerea, a small 

 tree found on the coasts of the south- 

 ern United States. (One Biloxi gave 

 itto Gatschetasthe jack oak. ) taxkudV, 

 the post oak, the Quercus eatesbii (or 

 turkey oak of America); the water 

 white oak or swamp post oak. tea- 

 xku^ t(iduxka\ the " very rough oak," 

 the black-jack oak {=teMcaxkudi)'i 

 If it be the black-jack, it is the Quercus 

 nigra. tc-tdca'xkudi^, the jack oak, 

 probably the black-jack or Quercus ni- 

 gra, tcaxku^ tcti\ or tctitca^xku tetV, 

 the red oak. tcdtcaxku^wa san^, the 



