80 ETHNOGEOGRAPHY OP THE TEWA INDIANS [eth. ANN. 29 



No^nta 'desert' 'dry land' {■miijj' + la 'dryness' 'dry"). 



Ifqyge 'floor' 'country' {naijf + ge). 



Nq.y'ke.ii 'on earth' 'in the world' (nq,yf + Ice-ii). 



Ni'ijf 'earth' 'land' 'country' 'soil' 'floor". 



Ni'i'op'e^ 'plaster' 'mortar' {nq formative element + 'op'e't? unexplained). 



Nclpo 'kneaded or workable mud' 'mud suitable for making adobe 

 walls or brick' (ml formative element + po ' water'). Cf. potsi. 



N'qpoFy, 'hard adobe' whether in form of adobe bricks or in other form 

 {nqpo + Fy, indicating length and hardness, as inj/eFu 'bone' (pe 

 'stick')). The Tewa constructed pueblos of adobe in pre-Colum- 

 bian times, building up the walls, a layer at a time, with formless 

 mud (nqpo). They learned from the Spaniards how to make 

 adobe brick and the modern Tewa pueblos are constructed of 

 such brick. The Tewa call an adobe brick wi nqpok'y, {wi 'a' 

 'one'). 



Nqpo' qytoikej I 'adobe pueblo ruin' (nqpo + ^qywiheji). 



Nqpouvl 'the water trickles down' said, for instance, of water trickling 

 down a cliff {)iq 'it'; po 'water'; wq 'to trickle down'). 



Nqldbajemit, 'the bank falls' {nq. 'it'; lota 'cliff'; jemu 'to fall', said of 

 3-I-, used herewith mineral singular"). Cf. the San Juan name for 

 February (p. 63). 



Ni a Naml)e and San Juan form sometimes used instead of Hjjf, loca- 

 tive and adjective -forming postfix. 



N'oJA,a 'well' (<New Mexican Span, noria 'well'). This is the ordi- 

 nary Tewa word meaning 'well'. 



Nil 'ashes'. 



Nu locative postfix meaning ' at ', referring to one or more objects at 

 any level. It never means ' in '. Its usage appears to be iden- 

 tical with that of nig,. 



Nuge ' below ' ' under ' ' beneath ' ' at the foot of ' (nu'u + g.e). 



Nugepije 'down' (nuQfi + jpije). 



NiCu 'below' 'under' 'beneath' 'at the foot of 'at the base of 

 'close to' 'down in'; said of liquids. 



l^ws^nta/i'^ 'place where pine sticks are scattered on the ground' 

 'place where pines are dry' {ywseyf 'rock-pine' +la 'dryness' 

 'dry'+'^'O. 



Nfe^'^mse,- 'left', in various compounds. 



Nfie^msegedi, 'at theleft side of; locative postfix (nj'se-mx- + g.e + ui). 



Nfc^mspjicg, 'on the left' 'at the left side' (n/se'mse- + nse (2)). 



'(? 'that' 'there', demonstrative element denoting remoteness from 

 speaker. It can not be posttixed. Cf. «« (1) and h^. It is nuich 

 used before postfixes of locative meaning, e. g., ''ol'waje 'way up 

 there on top' ('o -i- kwaje). It is also used as a noun prefix, e. g., 

 ''oteqwciHwe 'at that house' ('o -i- teqwa + ^iwe); also as an adjective 

 'o'*''' teqiooDiwe ' at that house ' ('o -i- '*'* -H teqtoa 4- ''iwe). 



