boas] handbook of AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 731 



tn'itsoia." Ama'iii ''^ be'nekto^^ nioniT'**** heno'tsoia.^" Amfi'in^'' 



slo|>t,itis That one nioniiiig in wiitcr went to get, it That oiio 



said. is said. 



mo'i"'' mdkl'"° ye'pi"* tsetsoi'a."^ AmO'ni^s mako'''^ pi'luti'^ me'tsoia.^^ 



him her luisband saw, it is said. Then fisli many-very gave, it is said. 



Amo'ni^^ tsJl'nan''^ moml'^* hedoi' wet '"' tsfi'nan **•'" inako'^* so'doi- 



Then on one side water carried up on other tish carried 



having side 



tsoia."^ Oki'tweten ^^ momi'^" so'kitsoia."" A'nkanim''^ mako' •''* 



up in arms, Arrived after water set down, it is Then fish 



it is said. liaving said. 



ha'psitotsoia,*'^ Amo'ni '^ me'datotsoia.*"' Ama'm *^ bc'nekto ^^ 



passed across Then took, it is said. That one morning in 



(througli), it is 

 said. 



tsedfi'bosim *"^ kani'm^"^ bii'sstsoia. ^ Atse't '^ loko'npintsoia.*"'* 



breakfasted all ' remained, it is Meanwhile crawled in toward, it 



completely said. is said. 



A'nkanini ^^ nioka'ndi '"'^ tloi'kitsoia.*^" Sawo'nonaki *"^ opi'tinodoin -"^ 



Then same place at coiled up, it is Farther side's tilling up 



said. 



w tu'itsoia slept (from the stem tu'i- to sleep). This presumably refers to the girl only, although of 

 course it might mean all the persons in the hut. 



8" vioml' w.VTF.R. The objectivo retains the euphonic i (see note 67). 



M heno'tsoia went to get. As it stands, this is obscure. It seems possil)le, however, that it was mis- 

 heard for hano'tsola, especially in view of the occurrence of the form hcdoi'- 1 wo lines lieyond, which has the 

 same njcaning as the more usual hadoi'-. It is also po.ssil)le that he- is really correct, and is the equivalent of 

 ha-, in accordance with the system of vowel-shifts in prefix-stems. In either event, the analysis is not easy, 

 as /io- seems to mean actions performed witu the hack or shoulder. With -no, the suflix of 

 motion, it seems to be specialized to mean GOING for the purpose of carrying (on the shoulder?). 

 The more general use of he- as a prefix-stem is to indicate actions that occur spontaneously. 



90 mokV her. This is the regular possessive form of the third personal pronoun in the singular, with the 

 suffix -ki (cf. note 6G). 



91 ye'pi HusuAND (objective). 



92 isitsoi'a SAW, it is said. The stem here is tse-, the usual form for to see. 



98 pl'luti very many; pi alone means many, much; -luti is an Intensive sulhx equivalent to the English 



VERY. 



^ me'tsoia gave. To give, to hand to, to take, is expressed by the stem me-. 



9S Jso'naw ON ONE SIDE (literally, FROM ONE side <«an-7ian), on the other side. Tsd'nan . .*. tsa'nan 

 ON this side ... on that side. 



^hedoi'wrt HAVING carried up (from water). The more usual form is hadoi'-TO carry up, gener- 

 ally on shoulder (see note 89). The suthx -wet hero apparently gives the idea of sequence, in that, 

 after havi ng taken up in one hand or on one side the water, she then took up tlie load of fish in the other. 



9' sO'doitsuia carried up in arms. The prefi.x-stein so- generally indicates that the action is done with 

 the arms; as sO'doidoin carrying wood up; sohd'noycwr'bissim kfpt lifting him akout. The -doi 

 shows that the motion was up from the water toward the house. 



^oki'tweten after having arrived (at the house). See notes 31, 35. 



99 so'kitsnia set down, it is said. Here again the prefix-stem so- appears, this time with the sulfix -kit, 

 meaning downward, i. e., action with arms downward, laying down whatever is being carried. 



"w ha' psitolsoia passed across, it is said. The stem here is hap-, meaning to seize, to grip, to hold 

 firmly; with the sulhx -s(/o across, through, it comes to mean to hand over to some one, across 



OR THROUGH AN OPENING, FIRE, ETC 



"" me'dalotsoia took, it is said. The stem hero is me-, apparently meaning both TO give and to take(?). 

 The use of -da here is not clear entirely. It often means motion downward, and -may here mean he 

 took down, as the girl passed the fish to him through the smoke hole or doorway. The suHix -to is prob- 

 ably here indicative of a plural object; namely, the many fish (see § 21, no. 45). 



W2 tseda'bosim wholly breakfasted; tseda is to breakfast. Thesuihx-fios has alreq.dy been alluded 

 to as meaning wholly, completely. In the present Instance an adjectival form seems to have been 

 made. It is subjective as referring to they. 



"» kani'm all (subjective). 



»< Idkd'npinlsoia crawled in toward (he) (see note 50). 



lO'' mbka'ndi at the same spot; mbka'ni is always given the meaning of the same. 



•M l.'di'kilsoia coiled up on ground, it is said. The stem l.'oi- meaning to coil, to twist, has already 

 been discussed (see note 52); here, with the sulhx -kit down, on the ground, it is clearer than before 

 with -ha. 



10' sawo'nonaki farther side's. As explained before (note 5^), sdwo'no is the term applied to the por- 

 tion of the house opposite the door. With this we have here the locative suffix -mo, meaning toward, and 

 the possessive suffix -ki. This use of the possessive is curious, and it would seem that some word like 

 SPACE, area, ought to be understood. 



