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In certain cases the negated verb takes, beside the negative particle, 

 the distinct suffix of negation -ll (see § 53). 



ha^, ha'ntkf yes, all right, are used as particles of affirmation. 



Aa^ yes, all right 21.8 



ha! ink yes 



Aa" Li'mqan t(n/ntux all right, I'll come back right away 56.21, 22 



ha^ wa'nxan hatc'a'^un yes, now we (excl.) shall ask her T4.12 



na serves as a particle of interrogation, and refers to the sentence 

 as a whole. Its phonetic similarity to the independent personal pro- 

 noun for the first person singular (see § 24) is merely accidental. 



nictci'tain tsxna wa'a}s I wonder what shall I say? 74. T 



'plna^ na is he sick? 



pakwa'wanx na are you going to play shinny ? 



a^f he, have an exclamatory character, and may be called inter- 

 jections. 



a", n%ct(fi!tc pla^n na waha' what! is he sick again? 

 he, Icumi'ntc M'^sa nx'xHc Hey I it (does) not (look) well on you 

 13.5 



ha'tt, kafl'octtf an emphatic particle. It never occurs alone, being 

 always preceded by the negation IciV', humi'ntc (see p. 598), and is 

 then best rendered by not at all. 



Tcumi'ntc Tcatl' xa'^'vnl not at all he came out (from water) 64.7, 8 

 Aru* Icatl'xti hlxma^ ants ya^lc'^s he did not entirely kill that seal 



64.12, 13 

 M* Tcatl' xti xa^'vnl not again he floated up 64.16, 17 



tntntCf a temporal particle indicating time in general. It is ren- 

 dered by WHEN, SOMETIMES. The final tc is the adverbial suffix ^ar 

 excellence (see § 23). 



mmtc L/aya' some time 



inintcLO^L Ll'utux (I) wonder when he will arrive 



mi'ntc^iix tca'xautyax when did you go home ? 



tsafif ants, kW^ nats. These three particles are etymologically 

 related. The last one is composed of the particle of negation M* 

 NOT and of nats. The forms ants and ndts resulted from the law of 

 consonantic metathesis (see § 13) ; ants is easily confused with the 

 demonstrative pronoun of similar phonetic structure (see § 115). 



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