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(2) Before stems beginning witii^, it forms I;^. 



According to Riggs's Dictionary, these forms always indicate that 

 the object belongs to the subject. 



Swanton gives the following Teton examples of these forms before 

 yri-^ ya-, and Jil: 



gAluha' they had their own gAla'ska he tied his own 



gAla'ha^ he was going back gAli' he got back 



The forms in ki which form an irregular pronominal series, accord- 

 ing to Riggs, express sometimes the same relation: 



to mean one's own (from ka) 

 to make one's own (from kaga) 

 to count one's own (from kakca) 

 to follow one's own (from kmra) 

 to kill one's own 



Ordinarily these forms express an indirect object with the mean- 

 ing of our preposition to or for: 



ki'cahi to rummage for one (from kahi) 

 kihna'ka to keep for one 



There are, however, many cases in which the ki that does not 

 form irregular pronouns is used in this sense. 



e'ya to s'dy 



eci'ya to say to some one 

 ewakiya I say to him 

 emayakiya you say to me 



dowa^ to sing 



ivakidowa'^ I sing for him 



In still other cases both forms are in use with the same meaning: 



kito^' to wear weto'^' and uxtkito'^ I wear 



kiso"^' to braid for one's self loesd^' and wakisd^' 1 braid 

 kihma' to look like loehma and waklhtiia I look like 



It would seem, therefore, that a considerable amount of confusion 

 between these morphologically distinct forms has developed. 



Related to the pronoun kl^ which tends to become assimilated hy 



the stem, is the reflexive /c/, which, before verbs beginning with k 



and ?/, assumes the forms igl (Teton) and ihd (Santee), while before 



verbs beginning with^ it becomes ik. It will be seen that this form 



is simply the first ki with the prefix i. 



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44877°— Bull. 40, pt 1—10 58 



