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hlw^he u Fneh' ]c'%Ld"^Hsa leaves of a willow he found 30.17, 18 



hE hd'tdit! u of la x'i'ntset Hetcit's child got on top 24.23 



ux leml'yat Ie mexafye u hwd'x^ they two set up the eagle's feathers 



8.10 

 xwdndj u iQfnas hE tsafyux^ Id'mk' such (was) the name of the small 



river 46.10, 11 



The possessive sign very frequently takes the place of the possessive 

 pronoun for the third persons singular and plural. 



lify^ '^ Uuwe'Hdis he was glad (literally, good his heart) 32.5 

 ofya cku u qd'ya she must have lost her breath (literally, gone must 



be her breath) 58.24, 25 

 la 4 ha^we Is tdici'rml the spruce-tree is growing (literally, goes 



its growth, the spruce-tree) 20.16 

 la u paa'wEs Ie xaP'jp the water is filling up (literally, goes its 



fullness, the water) 44.17 

 a'wi u Lowd'was she finished eating (literally, it ended, her food) 



24.13 

 Ke e'stis ma, aii'maqa tc %x' some people had large canoes (liter- 

 ally, some people, large their canoes) 44.20 

 yilxwaf u hWmd'h'e he has two wives (literally, two [are] his 



wives) 20.3 

 dji u x'na'at Ie nd^sk'%'1% the Big Woman came quickly (literally, 



comes her quickness, the Big Woman) 78.26 



The possessive sign is employed in impersonal sentences, where the 

 subject of the sentence is qafyis world or mln people. In these 

 cases the subject is placed at the end of the sentence, and the posses- 

 sive sign is affixed to the possessed object, immediately preceding the 

 subject. The sentences are rendered by there was, they are. 



k'/dhHa' 'd qafyis there was no land (literally, without [its] land 

 the world) 5.5; 6.1 



In tcHe'xEm u qafyis there was no low tide (literally, not [has] its 

 dry condition [the] world) 15.8 



nwa'ioaha it qafy%s there was a spider (literally, with its spider 

 [is] the world) 30.3 



qaicnfnUs hweefti u men people were living in a small place (liter- 

 ally, in a small place their living [place have] people) 50.7 



tcl ti'k'ine u men there they were standing (literally, there their 

 standing [place, severally have] people) 74.28 



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