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BtJfeEAtJ OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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C'a'^k'e' wana' leya'^^ "Toha'nP^ malipi'ya wa'^zi' tuk'te/P^ 



So now he said this, "When cloud one somewhere 



(^i'kala^*' ta^i'^'ya'^" ya'^'ke di"^* ec-i"^'^^ oma'kiya'ka yo."" He'd'el 



small visibly " sits the in that ease tell me thou. So 



edi'^' nawa'p'i''^^ k'te na niAni' sme e'ltkiya"^ waki'yaki'' "^ k'ta d'e,''"* 



in that I flee will and water deep thither I go back to will ," 



case 



eya'. Yu°'k'a° heya' "Misu^' hecVno'^^^ ki^ha'''^^ mi^«'' to'ke^ke'«« 



said he. And then he said as "MyyoUnger you do that if I in what way 



follows, brother, 



waKa'^' k'ta he"^^ eci'ya. Yu'^'k'a'^ "to'k^a toha°' omayakila'ke ™ 



I under- shall ?" he said to And then "in that when you tell it to me 



take him. case 



<5i'^ha°' lede'l ehe'^^ di-^ha"^' wa'^'dag" kipa'>^ ibAla'bAle^^ ^[n to'k\4a 



when in this you say when at once doubling I start to go so the by and by 



way up 



o'huta ek'ta'^* iya'Kpayi'^'^s j^-^g i^v ^^^^^ 



at you fall then 



shore 



will 



said he. 



u we lo,' ehe' c'i'^he' " waki°'ya°^* 



is com- in- ,' you say when Thunders 



ing deed 



hehi'''«° k'te lo," eya'. 



you say will ," said he. 

 that 



(when) 



"'Misu'^' nitu'^'k'a'^^ila^^ 



" ' My younger your grandfather 

 brother 



6'a hoto^'pi ^9 kWia'^' 



that 

 sort 



roar 



when 



s'ZeTHis; ya. 



^■*to the indefinite demonstrative; han continuative; -I suffix indicating motion. 



^'■'tu indefinite particle, also found in tu'wa who; I- suffix indicating motion. 



'■•^-la diminutive suffix. 



iUanin' VISIBLE; adyerbialized by means of the auxiliary ya, which is here nasalized after the pre- 

 ceding nasalized vowel. 



68 The c in cm has been changed from k after the vowel e. 



Me- the demonstrative; km article altered as above. 



60 o- prepositional prefix, often used with verbs meaning to say; ma- first person objective; ki- 

 dative-sign; ya; fca auxiliary; j/o imperative particle singular. 



s'na- instrumental prefix, indicating action by means of the foot; wa- first jjcrson singular objec- 

 tive; p'a changed to p'in before k'ta. 



«2 Probably e demonstrative; -I suffix indicating motion; t- -ta to; ki- the dative sign; ya caus- 

 ative in waki'yakin. 



^Hva- pronominal prefix; ki- the dative sign; ya to go; kin- ka to be. 



^ Evidently c'a altered before he e in eya'. 



65 Ae that; c'a (see note 2); 7u- pronominal prefix; on stem. 



6^ kin article; -han continuative particle. 



«' Emphatic form of the independent personal pronoun, -i the emphatic suffix. 



f^to indefinite pronoun; k'e- c'a soet. 



69 Interrogative particle. 



'">o- prepositional prefix; ma- objective pronoun; ya- subjective pronoun: ki- dative sign; ya to say, 

 la in the second person singular; ka, auxiliary. In this case both the final vowel is altered to c, and 

 the initial consonant of the succeeding word is changed from k to c in sympiitliy. This often hap- 

 pens where there is no apparent neces.sity. 



"Second person singular of eya to say; e demonstrative. 



''^wan'ca ONE -I- g, perhaps the contracted form of the auxiliary. 



"i- perhaps from the verb i to arrive, though the sense of this verb is quite distinct; b.ila' first 

 person of ya, which is doubled. 



'<e demonstrative; -<a po.st-position; fc" inserted for emphasis. 



i^i- prepositional prefix; ya- pronominal subject; hpa stem; yin probably causative, altered before k'ta. 



"i^mi- possessive pronominal prefix, first person; -la diminutive suffix. 



"Here Aa« is contracted to he without the usual phonetic reasons. 



'8The wakin'yan are the famous thunder-birds. The word means literally flying things (from 

 kin'yan to fly, with the passive prefix iwa-). Possibly the final syllable of kin'yan is the causative 

 auxiliary. 



w Ao voice; ton stem; -pi plural suffix. 



^he demonstrative that, second person singular of the verb ya to say, the final vowel being 

 furthermore altered to in before k'te. 



