BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 1051 



aja sighing-, especially used by women and children. 



aja qasogaa^ya how tired I am! 

 eeq or teeq expresses scorn or irony. 

 fid ^aa sudden pain. 



kakkaakf a.sHaasakah, surprise, wonder, admiration (M. aphpaU 

 ah ! [admiration.]) 



For hunters' calls, see Thalbitzer I, 323-326: 

 {limit . . . flmtli* . . used in decoying young gulls. 

 qu'feeq qit'feeq to old female gulls. 

 taha'teeq taka'feeq qvq to the three-toed gulls. 

 liaR'*m liaR'^ni to auks. 

 qa** qa" to ravens. 



§ 52. Modal Particles 



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aa calling attention to something. In some cases it is used as a prefix: 

 ,aau'')ia, 'aaunci look here, here it {imny is! the same as aajuna 

 In other cases it is used as a suffix; e. g., 



omna-aa you there, come here! {ooina is the relative case of una^ 

 thus meaning of him there) 



aa is verj^ much like the sign of the a vocative in such cases as — 

 ataata-aa father! 

 aa-7nallo the}^, there! 



ataijo lo! behold! (with future tense of the verb following it.) 

 atayo uslssayit try it and you shall see you will be all right 



sun'aa^^'Fa ( < sima what + iiFpa there) expresses surprise. 



ii'se (bringing something back to his memory) now 1 remember. 



usi'uFFa ( < use + uppa) 1 thought that . This particle is always 



followed by a participle or a noun. 

 usluppa taJcussayiya I thought (expected) I should have seen him 



qanovtoq Latin utinam, followed b}^ optative of the verb. 



massa V although (followed by participle). 

 wnnit) 



massa takussariya ilisariyy'dara although I have often seen him, 

 I do not know him 



soorLo as, as if. 



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