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II. Animate articles 



A. Subject. 



1. aUd singular animate object at rest. 



2. amci singular animate object in motion; plural. 



B. Object. 



1. td^ singular animate object standing. 



2. 4^"^ singular animate object moving. 



3. 'ina plural animate objects. 



4. ^In^^e' singular animate object sitting. 



5. (I,arhlca' plural animate objects sitting. 



III. Indefinite article. 



Following are a number of examples of the use of these articles: 

 he (I. 1) is used regularly of horizontal objects. 



tan'de Tc^e the ground 24.4 uM Fe the path 56G.6 



ma^'ge 1c e the sky 26.4 ti Fe a line of lodges 289.7 



ni Ice the water (i. e., stream) tna'^ Tee the arrow 50.6 



555.1 si ^''e the foot 35.3 



li^aP-'lie Tx)e the cradle 560.14 tndsa'^ l:e the feather 52.8 



iDahi Ue the bone 564.8 pahSlc'e a long hill 28.11 



pahi 1c e the neck 564.10 niani^ga Ice a line of dead per- 



2:i^5(g ^'(5 the leg 564.10 sons 10.7 



The following animate nouns appear used with the inanimate arti- 

 cle ^''^,' 

 wefa He, the snake 27. 1 



8ingazm'gaTce^ child lying down 560.13 (in this case, the child 

 being dead, the article may refer to the body of the child 

 stretched out) 

 The following expression is peculiar: 

 ci^'ha Ice the day 611.6 

 fe (I. 2) is used with several classes of nouns. 

 {a) It denotes standing objects. 

 ii fe the lodge 555.17 

 Mobs t'e the tree 277.2 

 tizebe te the door 46.12. 

 (J) It is used to express plurality and collectivity of inanimate 

 terms. According to Dorsey, it expresses in this sense a 

 single rectilinear collection of horizontal objects. This idea, 

 however, is not brought out clearly in the examples. 

 Icande fe the plums 659.4 pa f^ the heads 123.12 



te-dnifa fe animal limbs 565.1 md^dP' fe the feathers 26.19 

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