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So'tim^ neno'mmaidimi ^ bii'sstsoia.'' Wiso'tpini* he'nante^ 



One old people livod, it is said. Bij; Springs on this side of 



ku'mmenim" hobo'kodom^ mai'sem^ bii'sstsoia.^ Ama'fikan* so'ti^" 



houseless onus bark hut owning they ' lived, it is said. That one and one 



pakiipein " neno'inmaidiim ^ matsoi'am.^^ Ama>dikan ^^ mo'ii" 



daughter pos- old people it is related. There and she 



sessing person 



kiile'm^^ bii'sstsoia.^ AmaiTkan" matsoi'am ^^ ope'kanbeninr*" 



girl lived, it is said. That one and it is related always 



1 so'tim ONE {-m subjective). 



2 neno' maidiim old people; ne'no, ne'nope the usual adjective used for referring to animate things, and 

 standing for old person if unaccompanied by a noun; -mthe connective, euphonic consonant used in form- 

 ing compound nouns, etc.; mai'dii man, Indian, perhaps from root mai- to speak; -to the suffix of the 

 subjective case. 



3 bii'sstsoia lived (from the stem buss-, bis- to live, to remain, to continue in one place); -tsoi- 

 verbalsuffl.\ indicating completed action, quotative, i. e., the knowledge is not obtained by the experience 

 of the speaker, but comes to him merely by hearsay; -a the usual suffix of the third person, -n (.-Jean), 

 is rarely used with -tsoi This may be a contraction from -tsoi-anCl). 



■< wiso'tpini a place known locally as Big Springs, one of the main sources of the North Fork of Feather 

 river, in Big Meadows, Plumas county, California. I am unable to analyze this name satisfactorily. 



5 he'nantc on this side of. Analyzable as follows: he- a demonstrative stem (confined chiefly to the 

 northwestern dialect) meaning thls; -nan- the nominal locative suffix meaning from; -te probably from 

 -di, the general locative suffix at in, etc.: hence the whole meaning this-from-at, a spot between 



THIS AND THE ONE SPOKEN OF. 



^ku'mmenim a houseless person; kum- the name applied to the semi-subterranean, circular, earth- 

 covered lodges; -men the negative or privative suffix; to this is then added a euphonic i, and finally the 

 subjective suflix -to 



" hobo'kodom owning a bark hut; hobo' the conical bark huts in which the poorer people lived; fto alone 

 seems to be used as synonymous with dwelling, any sort of a shelter or house; -ko a suffix very 

 commonly used, indicating the quality of possessing, hence hobo'ko having the quality of possess- 

 ing A bark hut; -do the suffix of the present participle; -to the subjective suffix. The whole might 

 be rendered owners of a bark hut. 



8 mai'sem they. This is apparently a form synonymous with mo'sem or rndi'sem. The final ?« is the 

 subjective suffix. 



9 ama'nkan and that one; ama' the demonstrative pronoun that, referring to the old people, here in 

 the subjective case amd'm, the to being changed to « before k, in accordance with the regular rule (see 

 § 4. -kan and). 



1" so'ti one. Hero in objective case (cf. note 1) . 



11 pd'kiipem a person having a daughter; pa, po daughter; -kii the same as -ko, the suffix meaning 

 HA\aNG THE QUALITY OF POSSESSING; -pe the suffix used generally to form the nomen actoris, etc.;-7« 

 the subjective suffix. 



12 matsoi'am it is related. This frequently appearing form seems to come from a verbal stem too- to 

 RELATE, TO TELL; -tsoi- the quotative suffix of completed action; -a- the suffix of the third person, gener- 

 ally used with -tsoi. The use of -m here is as yet not clear. 



^^amd'dikan and at that place; amd' demonstrative pronoun that; -di the locative suffix at; -kan 

 the conjunction and. 



n mon the, that. The independent form of the third personal pronoun. This is used very frequently 

 almost as a demonstrative. Ilere moh. instead of mom, because of the following fc 



^^kille TO woman, girl (here subjective). 



1" bpe'kanheninV every time, always. It is difficult as yet to analyze this completely or satisfactorily; 

 ope' occurring alone means all; -kan seems to be derived from kani, meaning also all, each, every; 

 •6e is the same as -pe (the p changing to b after n); the final suffix -ninl aj)pears to have a temporal signifi- 

 cance; as also in le'wonini once in a while (from le'wo some). 



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