HAIDA LANGUAGES 481 



Haida 



klOMji 



sgot 



xil ("leaf") 



sifi 



tas 



tgAn 



sgii'na 



nel 



tgat 



k!at 



tcliii 



SLgU 

 qAl 



sgata'n 

 klAi 



qlAH 

 SLlku'll 



skii'dji 



Ikai 



sqol 



(llfi'xada ao ("dogfish 



iiKitlier ") 

 ta'ifia 

 skA'ndal 

 sgAn 

 k!al 

 t!a 

 sqao 

 sqlen 

 tliii 

 Llai'i.lai 



It may be advisable to liold uiuIit suspicion those eases in whieh 

 the form in either lanyiiai^e consists of more than one s^yllablc, because 

 such form may oriyiiialiy have l)een a descriptive term rephicin})^ a 

 former word. There are, too, man^' forms in one languaj^e which do 

 not aj^^ree with the forms of precisely equivalent meanini;' in the other, 

 but which do agree with some forms of slig'htly ditierent significance. 

 In such cases it is permissible to suppose that they have diverged from 

 some common original. With all due allowances, however, the diver- 

 gence between tlie vocabularies of the two peoples is certainly very 

 marked and it would be possible to expand the list of differences 

 to two or three times tlieir present extent. 



On the other hand, there is a considerable number of words and 

 affixes which do present resemblances. Such are the following: 



Hngi't, people 



qa, male, man, person 



u, to dwell 



11 A 1 1 ) V 

 iln, male, man 

 ga, some persons or things 

 u, to continue in one i)lace (na-u, to 

 dwell) 



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