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dog), tcu'nh inkta^ t^ye, he killed my 

 dog. tcu^nlc inkta' te^xkitu^, my dog 

 has been killed. tcunW ita^ tefy^ (dog 

 your he-killed), or tcu^ilki tehi^kiy^ (dog 

 he-killed-for-you), he killed your dog. 

 DJim tcu^nki kta te^yS, he killed Jim's 

 dog. {Also 2: 30; 11: 4, 6, 8; 26: 10; 

 28: 30, 41, 42, 47, 49, 118, 121, 122, 

 217.) 



DjIm, Jim, as in name of Jamea Jackson, 

 a Biloxi near Lecompte, La. — Late'/ ko 

 Dflm. kue^naska^ni na\ Charles Prater 

 is not as large as Jim Jackson. DjVm, 

 ta/nki kta te^ye, he killed Jim's dog. 

 (We could not say, " Tct/nki Djimta^ 

 te^ye." — M.) tcu/nki ne Djtmta^, that is 

 Jim's dog. 



t! interjection of denial, doubt, annoy- 

 ance, disappointment; oh! — t! siye^ xye, 

 Oh! what a lie! tf sVyeioa'y^, oh, how 

 untrue! 



ta. — ita\ a deer. Ita^ oT^yadi, the Deer 

 people or clan of the Biloxi tribe. 

 Ita^ odV to^xti (lit., Deer shoot). Fta 

 ha't'yadV, a Deer person. Ita^yanya'dl, 

 are you a Deer person? I'ta nkan^yadi\ 

 I am a Deer person. Fta ha'^-yatu^, they 

 are Deer people. Ita^ya'^-yatu', you are 

 Deer people. Ita nka'>^yatu^, we are 

 Deer people, ta^ ahV, or tahi^, a deer- 

 skin (4: 3) (cf. sika). tahV utiixpe^, a 

 deerskin robe, ta^hu waxV, "deerskin 

 shoes , " moccasins, ta^mdoke^ {=it.a-\- 

 \ndoke), a buck, male deer. tayo\ 

 "deer meat," venison. {Also 17: 15, 

 19, 23; 19: 8, 21; 22: 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13; 

 23: 1,5,14,17,20,21; 26: 50; 27: 3.) 



ta, to have, —ita', to have it, her, or him 

 {yita', nkita'; itatu', yitatu', nkitatu'). 

 ita'daha', to have them, yita'daha', 

 thou hast them, nkita'daha'', I have 

 them. Bj. and M. also gave the fol- 

 lowing: toho'xk da'ni yata\ he has 

 three horses; toho'xk da'ni ay ita', you 

 have three horses. a''iya' ak-dds ti'ta 

 ne^ya'"', "man store has elsewhere," a 

 storekeeper, tada'o'"', his or her ani- 

 mate objects, toho'xk tada'o^, his 

 horses. siHo' tada'on, her or his boys. 

 tayan, her, his (26: 90,91; 28: 118). 

 in'xtuta'tu, it was theirs (27: 4). 

 iitoiiC'ya'i, their house (28: 136). inkta', 

 mine (p. 120: 1). nkindi'nkta, itismine 



(28: 226). ayita', you have them (?). 

 toho'xk ayita' i'kisine', he stole your 

 horse from you. — ita' {=ayindita, ayita), 

 your, yours; it is yours (p. 120: 3). 

 a'f^'se'p su'di na'nki ko ita', the ax head 

 is yours, toho'xk tci'diki a'nde ita' 

 (horse which moves your), which is 

 your horse? How there are two words, 

 ita', yours, and ita', he has it, was not 

 explained, i'tada'o'"', thy or your ani- 

 mate objects, toho'xk i'tada'o'"', thy or 

 your horses. siMo' i'tada'o'"', thy or 

 your boys, i'tadaha' {=itadao'", ayita- 

 dao'"'), thy or your (sing.) living ob- 

 jects, toho'xk ama'nki i'tadaha', those 

 are your horses, i'iak, your; used in 

 forming sentences denoting possession. 

 icii'nki i'tak a'nde, "dog your moves," 

 and, tcu'nki i'tak nafiki', "dog your 

 sits," i. e., you have a dog. — kta, his, 

 hers; it is his or hers (p. 120: 2, 4). 

 a'^se'p si''>''hi'"' ne' ko kta', the standing 

 ax is his. aku^ na'nkiya'" kta', that 

 (object hanging up) is his hat. toho'xk 

 ne kta', this is his horse. Si^to' toho'xk 

 kta k^sme', he stole "Boy's" (Bankston 

 Johnson's) horse. Djim tcu'nki kta' 

 te'ye, he killed Jim's dog. ktak (prob- 

 ably objective) , his, or her; used in 

 forming sentences denoting possession. 

 tcu'nki kta'k a'nde, dog his (or her) 

 moves, and tcu'nki kta'k nanki', dog his 

 (or her) sits, i. e., he or she has a dog. 

 kta'ni, it is not his or hers, miko'^^'ni 

 toho' kta'ni, the hoe is not hers. {Also 

 10: 4; 19: 1; 28: 229; p. 120: 5, 6, 7, 

 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; p, 164: 24, 25, 26, 27, 

 28, 29.) — yata'; toho'xk da'ni yata', he 

 has three horses (given by Bj. and M. 

 instead of toho'xk da'ni ita' daha'). 



ta. — duta'di; anksa'p duta'di, to pull the 

 trigger of a gun {anksa'p i' duta'di, 

 anksa'p ndu'tadi; anksa'p dutatu', 

 anksa'p i' dutatu, anksa'p ndu'taiu). — 

 yailka'dukta nan'ni, it might mash me 

 (p. 159: 4)?. 



taha^nkona'', a yellow-eyed duck (Bj., 

 M.), the summer duck (20: 52), the 

 squealer duck (26: 92). 



tahaJ^ni. — taha'^'niyai^' , his real or poten- 

 tial sister's husband; his wife's real or 

 potential brother {ya'taha'"''niya'"'' or 

 yataha'ii'ni (28: 170), 'lj,'nktaha''>''niyan 

 (28: 156); voc, tahanni'). 



