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nlcwabitAgitAse'nw^ twentieth time . 

 negutwd'kwetAse^nw^ hundredth time 



mcwaTcweneswabitAginydwines'i'witAse^nw^ two hundred and thirty- 

 fourth time 



nequtima'lcaikwetAse^nw^]^, j^, ,. 



^,_ ,-, . . ^thousandth tune 



meaaswa kwetAse nw^ J 



Distributives express the number of things taken at a time, as 



EACH ONE, TW^O AT A TIME, EVERY THIRD ONE, FOUR APIECE. The 



distributive idea is expressed by reduphcation of the first numeral 

 syllable. In the following are some distributive cardinals: 



nd/neguH^ each one 



ndnlcw^ each two 



ndnesw^ or nd'nesw^ each three 



nd'nydw^ or ndnydw^ each four 



nd'nydnA^nw^ each five 



ndnegutwdcVg'^ each six 



nd'noJiVg"' each seven 



nd'necwdcVg'^ each eight 



cd'cag"- each nine 



md'medd^sw^ each ten 



md'ineddswinequH^ 1 , , 



,_ . ' ,. , .yeach eleven 

 mdmedaswineguhnesl w^i 



nd'nlcwdhitA^g^ each twenty 



nd'mcwdhitAqim^cw^ 1 i . u. ^ 



_,.•'. . , .^each twenty-two 

 ndnlcwaoitAginicwinesl w^i 



nd'neswdhitA^g^ each thirty - 



nd'nydwdhitA^g^ each forty 



nd'nydnAnwdhitA^g^ each fifty 



nd'negutwdcigdhitA^g^ each sixty 



nd'nohigabitA^g^ each seventy 



nd'necwdcigdhitA^g^ each eighty 



cd'cdgabitA^g'^ each ninety 



nd'Hegutwa^'TcW each hundred 



md'Tneddswd^'Tcw ^ 



,, .,, ?each thousand 

 ndnegutiniA ka kw"} 



Examples of distributive ordinals are — 



mdmenet"' every first 



nd'nicdnAme^g^ every second 



ndnesonAmeg'- every third 



md'meddsdnAme^g^ every tenth 



nd'negutwd'JcwetASdnAme^g^ every hundredth 

 Distributive iteratives are expressed in a similar way, 



nd'negute\w'^ it is once at a time 

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