De DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
INTERJECTIONS. 
§ 96. It is very difficult to translate, or even to classify, Dakota inter- 
jections. Those in common use may be arranged under the following 
heads, according to the emotions they express: 
Pain: yuy! winswi! ah! oh! 
Regret: hehe! hehehe! huyhe! hunhuyhe! oh! alas! 
Surprise: hopiday! hopidanniye! hopidaysni! inah! inama! inyuy! 
ivanaka!l wonderful! surprising! astonishing! truly! indeed! 
Attention : a! e! bes! hiwo! iho! ito! mah! toko! wan! hark! look! see! 
behold! halloo! 
Self-praise: ihdatay! ihdatanh! boast!’ 
Affirmation: eéahe! eéas! eéaes! ees! ehaes! elitakaes! evakes! eyakes! 
nakas! nakaes! indeed! truly! yes! 
Disbelief: eze! hes! hinte! ho! hoeéah! iyesniéa! oho! taze! or tase! 
(Yankton) fie! fudge! you don’t say so! 
‘Kya,’ when used at the beginning of a phrase or sentence, is an inter- 
jection, and seems to mean nothing. 

'** Boast” does not appear as an interjection in Webster’s dictionary, nor in that of the Century 
Company. As ihdatay means le praises himself, he boasts, a better translation is, O how he boasts!— 
Al O81 OS 
