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(or wishes) to drink water. akutxyV 

 qi^ te', he wishes to write {akatxyl' ayo'"'^ 

 te', akutxyi' nko'"'' te'). te^yS te\ he 

 wished to kill him. tehVye tef, did he 

 wish to kill you? hankonnV do^^hi te'' 

 dedV e^tu xa\ as he wished to see the 

 trap, he departed, they say (3: 15). — 

 to, to desire: used before the fu- 

 ture sign, dande'. a^duti ta^ dande'., 

 he will desire to eat, he will be hun- 

 gry {aya'duti ta^ dande^, nka^duti ta^ 

 dande'). — fe'xti o"^' , a sign of past de- 

 sire (?) : a^dulitl'xti o™', he was hungry; 

 aya'diiiiU'xli o'"-', you were hungry; 

 nka'duti te^xti o™', I was hungry. 

 [Note. — As a'duii te^ means he is hun- 

 gry (he wishes to eat), it is probable 

 that -xti 0™^ rather than tcxti o™ is the 

 past sign. —J. O. D.] {Also 7: 13; 9: 

 7; 10: 3, 21, 30; 12: 2; 20: 6; 21: 17, 

 26; 24: 4; 26: 50, 58, 59, 68; 28: 159, 

 161, 171, 183, 226, 228, 231, 237, 244, 

 253; 29: 1; 31: 12, 20, 21; p. 156: 3, 

 4,5,6,7,8.) 

 te, de, de (7: 5), this, here, now. — tee^, 

 ortee^, here (p. 167: 15). te^^a^nde,h.G 

 moves here, he is (still) here, tee^ 

 aya^nde, you move here, you are (still) 

 here, tet/ nha^nde, I move here, I am 

 still here, tee^ yuWdi, they move 

 here, they are (still) here, tet/ i^yuk- 

 t/di, you (pi.) move here, are (still) 

 here, tee' nyuke'di, we move here, are 

 (still) here, to'hana'k ieif yuWdi, they 

 were here yesterday, wil&'di ko t&^ 

 i^xtu' dandef, they will come (be) here 

 to-morrow, ama' tce^, "land here," 

 "this country, ' ' Louisiana, de, that (?) 

 (7: 9), then (8: 8). amVhin de', this 

 year ( M. ) . nyi'nkado'di de' a'taxnixtl', 

 now is my grandson burnt severely 

 (3: 26). — tenanV, tee'nani, this many; 

 so many, te'naska, this large, ka^wat 

 de'tlke, what is this? — deJie^da'"', te'he- 

 dan, this high, as high as this, ti ne' 

 ko ti dehe'da'"', that house is as high as 

 this one. ti nef ko ti' tehe'da'''', that 

 house is as high as this one. — temank- 

 de' {=te-\-mankde), this reclining or 

 horizontal object. In this compound, 

 te and de seem to be identical in mean- 

 ing (this). — tewa', this way, in this 

 direction, tewa' hu' dcMiV, come and 

 look in this direction! — tek, or teki', 



here, te'k haJ^yadi', he is a person who 

 belongs here, an autochthon. ((p., 

 ^egiha; K., yegaha; Os., ^ekaha.) te'h 

 yafiya'di, you are an autochthon, te'k 

 nkanyadi', I am an autochthon, te'k ha'"" 

 ya'tu, they are autochthons, they belong 

 here, te'k ya^ya'tu, you (pi.) are au- 

 tochthons, te'k nkanyatu', we are au- 

 tochthons, te'k a'"'Xti', she is an autoch- 

 thon, te'k anyaxti', are you a (female) 

 autochthon? — dekande', to have stayed 

 here {de'kaya'nde, de'hanka'nde). 

 ■^e, te''di, to die, to be dead {ite'di {or ite'- 

 di), nte'di {or {mkte'di): tca'di (3d, pi.), 

 itca'di, unktca'di). — ite' o'^-'ni' nkihi' na, 

 I thought that you were dead, e'ya^ 

 nkihi'"'' yanka' te o'"''manki', "there I- 

 reached when dead made-he-lay," he 

 was already dead when I reached there. 

 to'hana' te'di, he died yesterday, te'di 

 kikna'ni, he may die. aya'"'' sin'hi^ ne' 

 ko tedi xe, or aya""' si'^'hi'" ne' ko te'di, 

 the standing tree is dead, aya'"' toho' 

 te'di, the fallen tree is dead, te'di xya"-', 

 he must die. te'tu xya'"', they must 

 die. wite'di ko' ta' dande', he will die 

 to-morrow, a'^ya' te'di, the corpse of 

 a man. a'"'Xti' te'di, the corpse of a 

 woman, si^to' te'di, the corpse of a 

 boy. sanki' te'di, the corpse of a girl. 

 te'di ha'nu'", he may be dead, tedi' 

 xye, he is (indeed) dead, tcu'nk inkta' 

 te'xkitu', my dog has been killed. — 

 tehi'"''xkiye, to kill himself {tehi'"''yixki' 

 ye', tehinki'xkiye'). — teye', to cause to 

 die, toMM {tehaye' , tehunki': pi., teyetu', 

 they killed him; tehayetu', ye killed 

 him; tehunketu', we killed him), teye^ 

 hetu', ani'sti kika' nkye'ho'"ni na', they 

 say that he killed him, it is uncertain 

 (?) ; I do not know it. tefhi^iya' dand^, 

 I will kill thee, te'hi^yedaha dande', I 

 will kill you (pi. ) . te'hunke' na'unkihi' 

 xye'ni anksapi' ya'nkiya'ma^, I wished 

 to kill it, but I had no gun. te'ye na'- 

 wiyihi', he wished that he could 

 have killed it. te'haye yina'wiyihi' {-ye 

 slurred, the sentence being pronounced 

 as if te'ha yina'wiyihi'), did you wish 

 to kill him (though you failed)? te'- 

 hinki na'wiyihi' ha'niln, given instead 

 of te'yanke na'wiyihi' ha'nCi'", perhaps 

 he wished to kill me (or, did he wish 

 to kill me?), te'y^ te', he wished to 



