XXIV DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY, 
Hidatsa, duetsa (d¢uetsa) luetsa. 
Tutelo, no®sa, also nos, nosai, no"sai, ete. 
Biloxi, so"sa. I have not yet found in these cognate languages any 
interjection resembling the Dakota way i use, from which the respective 
forms of the numeral could be derived. 
TWO. 
Dakota, nonpa, ‘from en aonpa, to bend down on, or place on, as the 
second finger is laid over the small one; or perhaps of nape onpa, nape 
being used for finger as well as hand. N. B. The second finger laid down 
(that next to the little finger of the left hand) is not laid over, but beside 
the small one. 
(legiha, na"ba, in composition ¢a"ba, as in the proper name yaxe 
¢a"ba, Two Crows. See seven, a derivative. To place a horizontal object 
on something would be, a‘a"he, which could not have been the source of 
na"ba. = 
Kansa, nii"ba. 
Osage, ¢i°da. 
Kwapa, na"pa, to place a horizontal object on something, ak’t"he. 
Tolwere, nowe. 
Winnebago, no"p, no"pa, no"pi, nu"p. The root in the Winnebago 
verb to place a horizontal object is, tip. 
Mandan, nu*pa. 
Hidatsa, dopa (d¢opa, nopa). 
Tutelo, no"p, no"bai, ete. 
Biloxi, no"pa, na"pa; to place a horizontal object ou something, i*pi. 
THREE. 
Dakota, yamni: “from mni (root), frning over or laying up.” 
(Negiha, ¢ab¢i": compare roots, b¢i® and b¢i%¢a, beb¢i", twisted; ete. 
Kansa, yabli, yabli®: root bli*, trned. 
Osage, ¢gad¢i" or na¢id”. 
Kwapa, d¢abni. 
iwere, tanyi. 
Winnebago, tani. 
Mandan, namni. 
Hidatsa, dami (d¢ami) or nawi. 
Tutelo, nan, nani, lat, ete. 
