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The cluster tsn so far as noted is-a pseudo-cluster, but the others, 
so far as the writer has been able to analyze them, are genuine. 
The following clusters of three consonants were noted in the same 
texts: nst, ast, mst, nsts, stn, the last being certainly a false one. 
The following clusters were noted as occurring finally: sts, ns, nsts, 
zs, vs. A single cluster (st) was observed initially, and that but 
once; hence it is likely an initial vowel was not heard. 
The origin of the clusters that apparently are genuine is practi- 
cally unknown. One case of xp seems merely to have developed 
from p, e. g., woxpt WHITE (Fox wépi). The clusters sk and st are 
probably original (see discussion of Cree, p. 238. Unfortunately the 
writer has not been able to find corresponding expressions in Cree 
for such Cheyenne words as possess these clusters). 
There are a number of words of patent Algonquian origm. Exam- 
ples are: woxpi WHITE, mahOwiwt WOLF, nic TWO, nive FOUR, 
mataxtu® TEN, matama*® OLD WOMAN, 1@ AND, misi EAT, mi GIVE, 
ami MOVE. 
It should be noted that under unknown conditions Central Algon- 
quian n appears as ¢ (compare the treatment in Cree, p. 239; but the 
two languages do not agree wholly in the usage); furthermore, this 
secondary ¢, as well as original ¢, becomes ts before a palatal vowel. 
Examples are hitan® MAN (Fox ineniw*), nitanowitatsi’m* LET Us 
GAMBLE TOGETHER (tsi= Fox, etc., #7). Original k under unknown 
conditions appears as n. This, together with the other phonetic 
changes stated above, renders most of the forms of the independent 
mode intelligible. Thus, ni—ts 1—THEE; ni—tsemé I—you; ni— 
tsemend WE(excl.)—THEE; ni—émend THOU—vs(excl.).1 It will be 
noted that the structure for 1—you, We (excl.)—THEE agrees with 
Natick, Algonkin, and Peoria. The terminations for we (excl. and 
incl.), intransitive, approximate the Ojibwa type. The termination 
for you (intrans.) is ni—m* (Petter ni—mé), which phonetically 
approximates Algonkin, Ottawa, and Ojibwa rather than Peoria. 
(It may here be mentioned that Peoria, Ottawa, and Ojibwa all 
belong to the same division of the Central Algonquian languages.) 
The termination for wE(excl.)—nImM (na—on, Petter) has a corre- 
spondent in Natick and Eastern Algonquian. The terminations with 
the third person singular animate as subject are obscure. Those 
with the inanimate plural as objects patently are to be connected with 
the nominal suffix for the inanimate plural. With the assumption 
that original intervocalic g is lost, some additional forms take on a 
more Algonquian appearance. So violent a change is paralleled by 
the apparent change of -p(4)m- to -m- and -p(4)t- to -at-.. 
1 The last three forms are taken from Rodolphe Petter’s Sketch of the Cheyenne Grammar, in Mem. 
Amer. Anthr. Ass., 1, pt. 6, 1907. 
