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nio'inna" o'tnotsoiaJ^ Lo'kniitnowe'bissim®" lo'kmitsoia.'" Atse't'* 



wuter ti) went into, it Crawling down into continued crawled down into, Meanwhile 



is said. it is said. 



kule'm*' bii'sstsoia^ ilnl'di" hobii'di.^ Tsai'men^* we'yetsoia." 



girl stayed, it is said this-in bark-hut-in By and by spoke, it is said. 



"Okoi'tapo^^ aka'nas" niki'"^" atsoi'a." Amo'ni'^ "Ho"" 



"Let us go away said (he) nie-to" said she, it Then "All 



is said. right," 



atsoi'a." "Ama'm*'^ be'nek^^ ono'makasi^'' be'nek^^ ono'tapo** 



said U he "That one to-morrow go-shall-I to-morrow goaw-ay, 



father), it let us, 



is said. 



akfi'nas^^ nik"^^ atsoi'a." Amo'ni'^ mom^^ ne'nommai'dum ^ "He'u^ 



said (he) me-to," .said she, it Then he old man " Yes, 



is said. 



ono'bene^'"' saa'"^*^ Jitsoi'a." Amo'ni^® tsai'men** bu'ssyatan"^ 



go-ought ?" .said (he), Then by and by stayeil after 



it is said. having 



^mo'mna to the water; mo'mi is water. The terminal euphonic i is dropped always before loca- 

 tive suffixes such as this; -na toward. 



6* 'dtnoUoia went into, it is said. The stem here, oU, is apparently a derived stem from the common 

 6- TO GO, (May not this be a contraction from omit- to go down into?) The addition of the suffix -no 

 ol generalized motion does not seem to add strength. 



^^Id'kmilnowe'bissim kept crawling down into. We have here the suffix -nnV, meaning into, down 

 INTO A HOLE, CAVITY, ETC., which, it was Suggested, may appear in contracted form in the preceding 

 verb. Again, the addition of the suffix -no seems to add little, although here perhaps emphasizing the 

 continuity of the motion. In •ivcbissim we have, of course, the usual continuative. 



''^ Id'kmitsoia crawled down into, it is said. Here -mit-tsoia coalesces to -mitsoia. 



"' atse't meanwhile. \ connective formed from the auxiliary verb a- to be by the temporal suffix 

 '•tset, m.eaning while, at the time when. 



''-iinVdi IN this; uni' is the demonstrative indicating objects near the speaker; -di is the locative 

 sulBx meaning at, in, on. 



'3 wc'yetsoia .spoke. Of the many verbs ol speaking or saying, we'yen is one of the most commonly used. 

 The stem is in realitj" ice-, often reduplicated as wc'we-. The suffix -ye is one of those verbal suffixes of 

 so general -a meaning that no definite translation can be given for them. 



■' dkol'tapd LET us go away. Tlere 6- to go is the stem, to which is added the directive suffix -koi 

 AWAY from; a further suffix, -ta, which generally seems to indicate motion upward or along the surface 

 of something; and finally the exhortative suffix -p6. 



''^dkd'nas said. The stem a- to say is probably related to the stem ma- of similar meaning. The 

 suffix -kan is the ending of the third person of a verbal form (see § 19, no. 30). The terminal -as is the 

 indication of the jjerfect tense, here sulhxed directly to the verbal fonn, and not standing independent 

 (see § 19, no. 32). 



"> niki' (TO) ME. Instead of the more usual form of the objective of the first personal pronoun, nik, 

 what is apparently an emphatic form is here used, distinguished from the possessive ni'ki by a different 

 accent and long terminal i. 



" atsoi'a said, it is said. The stem o- to say here takes the regular quotative past-tense suffix. Instead 

 of the usual ending of the third person, -a, as here, the form dtsoi'kan is sometimes used. As compared 

 with dkd'nas above, the position of the tense and pronominal suffixes is reversed. 



''^amo'ni then. Another connective formed from the auxiliary with the suffix -moni, apparently best 

 translated by when-, hence when it was so. 



" ho W.ELL! ALL right! YES! 



»<i ono'mdkasi I shall go. Here, from the stem 6-, the general verb to go, to travel, ono- is formed, 

 of which the form given is the first person singular of the future, the -md being the suffix of the future 

 tense, the -ka a suffix still somewhat obscure (see § 19, no. 30) , and the -s(.i) the suffix of the first person 

 singular. 



8' onO'tapo let us go (a form parallel to okoi'tapo [see note 74], but formed from ono'-). 



82 nik (to) me. Here the usual form of the objective of the first personal pronoun is used, instead of the 

 emphatic nikl' (see note 76). 



8S mom he (the). The subjective form of the third personal pronoun singular, used here as a demon- 

 strative. 



8* he'u yes: 



8s ono'bene ought to go. The suffix -ben or -bene conveys the idea of must, ought. 



8« sad' (?) I am unable to explain this. 



