BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHTJKCHEE 893 



63 



Ne'me echi cit" qami'tvai'kin,^^ lu'ur" pi'rinin. 



Again before as be- she ate, thereupon he took her. 



fore 



"Akakaka'! ilu'ka^* a'lya!'"''*^ niqama'graqen."^ "Gu, e'unan^* 



"Ah, ah, ah! motionless away!" she struggled. "Oh, so 



gina'n.""— "Gu'na, a'lva," qine'rrilhi^!«8— ^'Gu'na, ilu'ka.«* Qare'm^^ 



thou." — "Oh, away! let me go!" — "Oh motionle.sa. Not 



minre'qewkurj" mimiiilo'ur." Gik, ia'ra nilei'vutku-i-gir ?" 



I shall do anything to thee, I will question thee. Oh, why art thou walking about? 



QaiVegeti^n^e-gir?''"— ''Ui'iia.''^''— ''E'mim?''— ''Uwc¥'qucita«E'nku» 



Indeed thou hast a master?" — "No." — "Where is he?" — "My husband torejection 



gine'tcilin,^^ genancaatvau'len,'^^ ginenqu'pqeulin."" — ^ "En'qa'm''* 



used me, hecastmeoff, ' he let me starve." — "Then 



va'nevan^^ wu'tku^" 3^ara'cikii*^ re'qan^^ qinelu^'rkin."®^ — "Va'ne- 



not at all here inside of the something thou hast seen." — "Nothing." 



house 



van."''^ "Guq, a'men®* um, mimata'git."^^ 



"Oh, then let me marry thee." 



Ma'tanen.^® Ne'me cei'vutkui^.^^ Wulqiitvi'k*^ um" puki'ri.^' 



He married her. Again he walked. In the evening became. 



M Before, formerly (§ 127, p. 848). 



"2 See notes 25, 36, 48; here qamitva, derived tense in -rkin (§§ 64, 87). 



" Stempirt to take; -nin he — him (§ 67). 



M ilu TO move; e—ka negation (§ 114, 4). The initial e is contracted with the i of the stem. 



^^ievnqama'gra; n — q&n (§ 73); with ablaut (§ 3). 



«§126, p. 855'. 



^ Subjective form (§ 56); presumably as subject of an idea like you have eaten it. 



M Stem initial rirrll, medial ml; ine- (§§ 67; 113. 28); q — fi^ imperative 2d person sing. 



s'Negation with exhortative meaning (§ 131.2). 



TO Medial form of the causative prefix — n; stem raq what, something; — eu (§ 110.70); predicative 

 form of the indefinite pronoun; m—git let me— thee, subjunctive (§ 67); wku<C'u+f; in place of git 

 "we have here and in the next word the alternating form gir. 



"Stem *pnlo; initial fovm jnnlo-: medial form -miiilo-; m~git LET ME — thee, see note 70. 



"Stem Icivu, see notes 31, 35, 53; -tku (§§ 110, 67); predicative form of nominalized verb (§ 73). 



"Stem ilinv master (§§ 48, 73). 



"NO (§131.6). 



"See note 10; here with the prefix -ine- referring to the first person (§ 73) . 



"See note 75, the same form; stem -caqtv-; r—au causative (§ 114, 1). 



"See note 75, the same form; stem qupq to starve (see note 11); r — eu causative (§ 114, 1). 



"Conjunction (§ 128, p. 858). 



" § 131. 1. 



w Demonstrative (§ 57); as particle vai; stem wut-; locative in -k, 



nSee note 4; -c/fcit inside of, nominal (§ 101, 24). 



i^rqq something; here absolute form (irregular) used as object with the verbs iu to say, lu^io see 



wstem lu^ to see; derived tense in -rkin (§ 64); ine- (§ 113. 28); q- imperative (§ 64); here used as a 

 past (§85). 



»* Conjunction (§128, p. 853). 



••Stem mata TO take, to marry; subjunctive (a), m — git let me — thee (§ 67). 



M Stem mato TO take, to marry; -wm he— her (§67). 



87 Stem ceivu-\-tku, see notes 31, 35, 53. The g of the ending -gi^ has dropped out on account of its 

 intervocalic position. 



"Stem wulq evening, compare wu's-? darkness; a locative form (§38); -tvi to become (§110, 68) 



•» Initial stem pUkir, medial pkir; abbreviated termination for -gi^. 



