348 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. [EVH. ANN. 40. 
uwipi“tcinawani (306.6) “one’s teeth.” The word uteneniminawag*"* 
(306.21) ‘one’s men-folk”’ presents a few difficulties. The -t- is the 
usual intercalated -t-; there is a doublet of neniwa “‘man”’ ineniwa. 
Now the -w- of the last would be eliminated before the -m- suffix 
which is identical with the ordinary -m- suffix of possessives, as duly 
explained by me in the International Journal of American Lin- 
guistics, i, p. 50. The initial i changes to e as there is a u in the 
preceding syllable which is a different morphological unit: see the 
American Journal of Philology, xli, p. 183, and below, p. 616. 
At 310.41 we find a wholly anomalous formation, ugwi’’sema™**,? 
which probably should be rendered ‘‘the son.’’ ‘His son” would 
be ugwi'san™*. It is evident that the initial u- is to be associated 
with the ordinary u- of the third person in possessives; the -m- also 
needs no explanation; the -e- prevents the combination -'sm- which 
is not tolerated in Fox; the rest of the form is unclear. 
§ 48. As I have pointed out before (P. A. E. S., ix, p. 127; I. J. 
A. L., i, p. 52) obviatives of indefinite pronouns exist, though not 
treated in the sketch. An example is uwi’yi'ani “any one,” 324.9. 
A pronoun not touched on in the sketch is me’cemegona ‘‘any one,” 
“every one,” 320.14. 
We have now come to a pomt where references to the sketch are 
impractical. 
T have treated loose verbal composition in the International Journal 
of American Linguistics, i, 50. Some examples occurring in the 
Indian text contained in this paper are: & pwawi-ninini-wi seniyani 
(304.22) “T did not eat then,” a’ pepya“tci-nepi-natawi ‘tci (306.1) “she 
kept coming to fetch water for me,” pwawi-“tca’-megu-kiwimiine- 
‘citifiyan (306.10-11) “if you do not go around with bashful 
thoughts,’ a*pi'tci-pwawi-pe'ki- ki'ci-nepwa'kag*" (306.23-24), “as 
long as one has not much intelligence,” nepepyii“tci-megape'e-nawA- 
‘se’ kagwa (310.15—16) ‘‘she kept coming to ask me to accompany her,” 
a ta’swi/-meguneguta ‘i-aiyagini (310.20) “as often indeed as we went 
any place,” ki ‘poni-gii’-ina-kakanone’ti awa (312.4) “you must 
really stop talking to that one.”” See also 312.19, 312.25, 314.4142, 
316.1, 316.12, 316.22, 316.32, 322.9, 10, 322.31, 324.2, 324.32-33, 
324.38, 326.44, 328.1. : 
The following are in a way new types of composition, though they 
might also be covered under the term “loose composition:” agwima’” 
wi kiigd'ainetagu'si’/yanini (312.15) “you will be thought of as naught” 
[kigo" anything], dgwittca'ini kiigd“egin™ (336.6) “that verily is 
not anything” [kigo‘'* combined with the inanimate copula -e-]. 
It may be mentioned that ‘loose composition” apparently never 
occurs after stems which can not occur in the initial position and that 
for the greater part it occurs immediately after the first mitial stem. 
2 Supported by udanesemaws, Jones’s Fox Texts, 102.15, 
