HARRINGTON] GEOGKAPHICAL TEEMS 79 



MaJ' 'ocean' (<Span. mar 'sea' 'ocean'). 



Mn-ifokini 'ocean' {mcu+pohici). 



McuipohicipceTjgenqyge 'the country down oeyond the ocean' {mcu- 

 pohvi +pceyge+nq yy+g.e) . 



Ifesa 'table' 'mesa' 'tableland' (<Span. mosa "table' 'mesa' 'table- 

 land'). 



3fesakwag.e 'mesa' 'tableland' {mesa+hwag_e). 



Mlsate 'church' (tnisa <Span. misa 'Roman Catholic mass'+#e). 



Mishte'e 'chapel' 'little church' [misate+'e). 



Ndba 'cultivable field' 'field'. The word has the same meaning as 

 Russian nfiva, which it resembles in sound. Tewa nata has noth- 

 ing to do with the uncommon Span, word nava 'plain.' 



Ifaia 'game pitfall' 'large bottle-shaped hole excavated in the earth, 

 covered with brush and earth'; deer fall into it and are thus 

 caught. Such a pitfall is called in the Taos language quana. 

 Plate 11 shows an ancient naia. 



JVaiaiifu 'dell of cultivable land' {?Hiha ' field '-h6m''M [1]). 



If^aiahit'it 'arroyo or canada with cultivable land in it' 'field arroyo' 

 {nata ' field '-i- Am' t<). 



JVaiapohu'' u 'arroyo or canada with cultivable fields and a stream of 

 water in it' {naba ' field '+poA ?<'«). 



JVaiafsP'i 'canyon with cultivable land in it' 'field canyon' (juiia 

 ' field '+/si';). 



JVq.sa, nasa 'fishweir' (<Span. nasa 'fish weir'). 



Ns^, (1) ' this' ' here', demonstrative element denoting position close by 

 the speaker. Cf. hse. and 'o. It is much used before postfixes of 

 locative meaning, e. g. nsthwaje 'here on top' {nse. + hwaje). It is 

 also used as a noun prefix, e. g. nseteqtcaHwe 'at this house' 

 (??^ + teqwa + Hwe); also as an adjective ns^^i"'- teqioa^iwe 'at this 

 house' {ns^ + '*'' -i- teqwa + Hwe). (2) 'at' locative postfix. 



Nseg_e 'here' 'down here', denoting position of or close by the speaker 

 and relatively low {^ix + ge). 



Nsen^ ' here', denoting position of or close by the speaker (?ia? -i- nsp, [2]). 



Ns^ns^ of qnnse. 'on this side', referring usually to a river or other body 

 of water {mens^ + ^ofqrmig). 



Ns^na^i 'on this side', said of body or otherwise {?isense + .d). 



Nss.ioe 'here', denoting of or close by the speaker, and relatively high 

 (i\SE, + we). 



NsRwedl 'here' 'on this side' {nmwe + m). 



Nqmhe^e 'small clump of earth' 'mound of earth' {nqyy + be'e). 



JVqrniuu 'large clump of earth' ' mound of earth' {nq.yj' + bu'u [2]). 



^qnsipu 'shrine', literally, 'earth's hollow where belly and rib- 

 region join' {tiq.yf + sipu 'belly base' 'depression below the ribs 

 and above the protruding part of the belly on each side of the 

 navel' <si ' belly ',^^w 'base'). 



