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loud (literally, if shall usually something you get angry at it 

 shall usually with it hard you be talking) 16.3, 4 

 yanLawe xqantc ma hu'yam^ Isla^ hanzawe e^kwd'nanafya when- 

 ever a person gets ready to come from somewhere, this you 

 shall usually tell (literally, if shall usually from where a person 

 get ready [to come] this shall usually you tell it) 19.3, 4 



The particle he amalgamates with the adverb yu very into a tem- 

 poral adverb, yuwe whenever. 



xa'hmfi he yuwe la^ yixu'me warm usually (it is) whenever that 



one travels 24.6 

 yuwe yi'mat ha^ go^s rm'latc lokHb'hwaai whenever he twinkles 



(his eyes), it is always lightning 16.6, 7 



The same process may have taken place in the rare adverb towe 

 WHEN. The first component may be a stem, to-^ while the second 

 element is the particle he. The example given below will sub- 

 stantiate this assertion. We have here a complex of two sen- 

 tences stating a fact of frequent occurrence. In the first sen- 

 tence the repetitive particle occurs clearly, while it seems to be 

 missing in the subordinate sentence. And since, according to 

 the examples given above, all the components of a complex of 

 sentences must show the particle Ae, it is safe to assume that the 

 frequentative particle is one of the two elements in towe. The 

 example follows : 



xyEai' Litafltc he ux yixu'me towe hu^'mis hlk'a'm.tlye from 

 another country usually they two travel when(ever) a woman 

 gets her monthly courses 26.6, 7 



§ 88, JParticles Denoting Degrees of Certainty and 



Knowledge 



6. kwa IT SEEMS, AS IF, LIKE, KIND OF, dcuotes an object or an action 



the quantity or quality of which is not intimately known to the 

 speaker. 



hats hwa to' hits just as if he hit it 



ka"-s kwa li'cat hE hlta almost as if he shook the earth 16.2 



hats kwa u'yu wina'qaxEm.' Idl Lowe^'wat just like a rainbow is 



spread out that (which) he was eating 32.14 

 hats kwa iQ^to'miL just like an old man 1 (am) 



7. ytku, k"* MAYBE, PERHAPS, I GUESS. Both fomis appear without 



any apparent distinction. This particle may apply to any part of 

 speech in a sentence, and its position is freely movable. It has a 

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