BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 861 



The element expressing hundred is -d'Jcw^, the same thing, prob- 

 ably, as the collective suffix used to indicate things which are wooden: 

 as — 



cegakw"^ pine [literally, skunk-tree. — T. M.] 



ma'^kwahw'^ bear-tree 



pA'sigd^'kw^ board 



The suffix ends with e, which is characteristic of an adverb. 

 Numeration in the hundreds is expressed with the smaller number 

 coming after the higher. There are two forms, — one with simply the 

 combination of high and low number : 



mc'wd'']cwenVcw^ two hundred two (for two hundred and two) 

 the other with this combination terminated b}- the local demon- 

 strative adverb ^'?^a* there, in or at that place: 



nlcwaJcwe'nlcw^ln'^ two hundred two there 



The sufhxed adverb has very nearly the force of also, too, as 

 used thus with numerals. In the series between six and nine, inclu- 

 sive, where the numeral ending is -ga, the quantitative element -tAS- 

 [tASwi-, see § 16. — T. M.] comes in between the cardinal and the sign 

 for the hundred. 



negutwdcigAtASWd^'Jcw" six times hundred (for six hundred) 

 cdgA'tASWd'^'lcw^ nine times hundred (for nine hundred) 



It takes the same place in hundreds after a thousand. 



7neddswinegutitASWd'''l:w'' ten one times hundred 

 meddswinegutineslwitASWd^'kw^ one ten times hundred 



Both of the preceding examples mean eleven hundred. 



Thousand is expressed in two ways, — one by the combination of 

 ten and the sign for hundred, meddswd'Tcw^; the other, and the one 

 more usual, by a compound expressing one box, negutimaJca^'lcw^. 

 The word for box is maTcakw^, of inanimate gender. With the 

 meaning a thousand, it takes the form of an adverb by ending 

 with e. The term is of recent origin. In some of their earlier sales of 

 land to the government, the people received payment partly in cash. 

 This money was brought in boxes, each box containing a thousand 

 dollars. From that circumstance the term for one box passed in 

 numeration as an expression for a thousand. The term is now a fix- 

 ture, even though its form is less simple than the more logical word. 



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