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eating com. aye'k a'hi, corn husks. 

 aye'kiya'"'^ tudiyaP'^ Ice dutitcu' tca'ye, lie 

 dug around the corn and pulled it all 

 up by the roots (1: 3). ay'e'k ati', 

 "corn house," a corncrib. a'yek u'di, 

 corncobs. a'yeku'ya^, a cornstalk; 

 cornstalks, ye'ni (from ayeki), "made 

 of corn" (?). ye^ni ptQaskunnl^ , corn 

 bread. {Also 26: 3, 19.) 



yeke' or yeke^, must have, must (18: 13; 

 23: 14; 24: 6; p. 151: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). 



yeskasa°^, tin, a tin bucket ( 1 : 9) . (This 

 is probably better than the following 

 form.) — isksu^m, tin. iskau^mmiisuda', 

 a tin pan. \sksWm musudg/ xa'pka, a 

 tin plate. ayiksaP'^ musv/da yinkV, a 

 tin pan. 



yStci^, his or her tongue {iyetdf, nyetd^; 

 yetclu^, Vyetctu', nyetciu^). (28: 96, 

 105, 106.) — 2/eicpi'', to tell a myth, story, 

 or tale; a myth or tale {i^yetcpi, 

 nkyetcpV; yetcpiiu^, Vyetcpitu^ , nkyetc- 

 pitu'). yrtcpi{7: 14, 15; p. 158: 31, 

 32). — yetcpV nc/lcka, a short myth or 

 tale. — yetcdmna^ a habitual liar. 



yihi^, to await, wait for. — amixka'"' yihi, 

 to be waiting for summer to come. 

 unankn'"' yihi, to be waiting for winter 

 to come, pska'"' yihi, to be waiting for 

 night to come. 



yilii^ yuM^ (18: 3), yu^hi (8: 22), to 

 think (?) {ayi^hi, or iyuhV (28: 205) 

 nkihV, or nkuhV; yuxtu, iyuxtu', 

 nkuxtu^). — tuhe^ naxe' yihV, he thought 

 that he heard it thunder. aHaika' 

 aP'hi^' yihi', he thought that he heard a 

 child cr}% ite' onnV nkihi', I thought 

 that you were dead. ksVhi, not think- 

 ing (27: 15, 17) . aks^x, she forgot and 

 left it (28: 9). kiya'xtu, they think 

 about him (16: 5 ) . ai^hin' ayVhi naxo', 

 you (sing. ) did think (then, not now) 

 that he cried, ha'ya ayVhi naxo'' (said of 

 many ) . " xki^tonni e^yan nkihin' xyo' , ' ' 

 uyVhi ha'nde etuxa' Tce'tkanadi' , they 

 say that the Rabbit was thinking (for 

 some time), "I will get there first 

 (or, before him)" (3: 4). yuhi, he 

 thought (7: 1). — heke'wihV, to think 

 so, to think that or thus {heWwiyihi (2d 

 sing.), heke^ivinkihi^ (1st sing.)). heW- 

 wihV naxo^, he did think so formerly 

 (but not now). — neheya'"^ kl'di na'n^we 

 de'di, though almost sure not to reach 



there, he goes. — na'myihV, to wish to 

 do somethingv (but without succeeding) 

 {yina^miyiJiV (?), na'ilnkihV ; sometimes 

 pronounced as if no'onkihi') . na'f'^ice, he 

 thought (28: 91). te'hayeyina'wiyihV, 

 did you wish to kill him (though you 

 failed)? The -ye is slurred or omitted, 

 the sentence sounding as if te'ha yina'- 

 tuiyihV. t&'hinki na'iviyihi' Jiu'wu,'"'^ given 

 instead of te'yanke na'wiyihV ha^n'OP', 

 perhaps he wished to kill me. te'hunke 

 na'UnkihV , I wished to kill him (but I 

 failed), te'ye na^wiyihV, he wished that 

 he could have killed it. nka'duti 

 na'iinMhV xye'ni yanka'ti, I wished that 

 I could have eaten it, but I was sick. 

 te'hUirike na'unkihV xye'ni anksapV ya^n- 

 kiya'ma'"'', I wished that I could kill 

 it, but I had no gun. inkan^ ndu'si 

 na'iinkihV xye^ni {'"'ske'yanke' hena'ni, 

 I wished to take the cord, but I 

 was scared every time (that I tried 

 to take it) (3: 18). ta^ ahV ayatsi'ya''^ 

 llnna'xe na'UnkihV , I hope to hear that 

 you have bought deerskins (4: 3, 4). 

 Mya^xtu, they think about him (16: 5). 

 e^ya'"' xkVdi na' unkive ■di^nVx ne^di, I 

 am going (walking), though I have but 

 a slight chance of reaching there again 

 (p. 163: 13). e'ya'"' yakVdi na'wiye 

 inix, ine'di, you are going (walking), 

 though you have but the barest chance 

 of reaching there again (p. 163: 14). 

 Tane'ks ade^ nki''^' spe yv/xinkwe'rika'- 

 nde, I am trying to speak the Biloxi 

 language, though I can hardly hope to 

 succeed (p. 163: 16). — no'onkihV, re- 

 corded at first instead of na'iinkihV. 

 In Biloxi, as in (fegiha, when a and u 

 in juxtaposition are pronounced rapid- 

 ly, they seem to approximate the sound 

 of English in no, or that of the French 

 au in aujourd'hui. — oyixV, to want, be 

 in need of {ayo^yixi, nkoyixV). {Also 

 8: 24; 0: 4, 15; 10: 6; 16:5; 18: 2, 7; 

 19: 15; 21: 13, 38; 22: 3, 4, 6; 24: 4, 6; 

 26: 85; 27: 3; 28: 8, 48, 79, 83, 133, 

 144, 145, 197, 199; 29: 33, 35; p. 118: 

 17, 18; p. 143: 20-p. 145: 13; p. 152: 

 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; p. 153: 30, 31, 32; 

 p. 157: 31, 32, 33, 34; p. 158: 1, 2, 

 3, 4, 5, 6; p. 160: 10, 11, 12, 13; pp. 

 162, 163; p. 165: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 

 14, 15.) 



