hull — hunk. 79 



hunkish, hu'nksh, hu'nk, hunk, link (1) ])ron. clem, this, this one. (2) pron. 

 pers he, she, it. — Used very unfrequently in the subj. cases, but in the obi. 

 cases referring to anim. beings (and in the form hunk to inan. things also) 

 present and visible or supposed to be so: hiinkiash tunepa'nash sha't'la 

 he hired these five (men), 44, 2.; 161oksgish hunkish ii't%i! disarm him of 

 his rifle! 37, [).; i a-i tawi hiinksh you have bewitcJied her, 68, 10.; shli't i 

 luVnks! you shoot him! 107, 14.; hu'nksh vu'shat ^ will flee before him, 

 147, 13.; na'dskank hu'nk uba-ush while applying that piece of skin, 73, 4.; 

 shliutuapkug hu'nk /o>" the purpose of firing at him, 66, 12 ; hu'nk nu nen 

 gi / mean him, her; hu'nk sa kiuksas a'mpgle tchi'shtal they brought that 

 conjurer hack to his lodge, 69, 2. Here h refers to a dead person, and 

 like Iiii't, hu'nksht, it is often used in this sense to avoid giving the name 

 of the deceased: hiik pil link shla't shku'ks dead persons only can see the 

 spirits, 129, 1. Cf 68, 5. 10. 87, 1. 11. 12. 129, 4-7. and Note to 64, 1. 

 It is not always easy to distinguish, whether h. is the pron. or the adv., 

 cf. tchu'tantki giug hu'nk shillalpksli to have the one treated who fell sick, 

 65, 18.; cf 64, 5. 11. 101, 16. Locat. case: hunkant (4nkutat) ts'hdlam- 

 nank sitting against that tree, 30, 12.; shnu'lashtat hu'nkant m that nest, 

 101, 13.; partit. case: pi hu'nkanti shdwana he gave (him) of that (meat), 

 113, 10.; cf 30, 21.; instr.: hunkantka uba-ushtka by means of that piece 

 of buckskin, 73, 2.; hunkantka waitashtka the same day, 87, 2. Cf. hu, 

 hu'k, hunkanti. 

 h u n k , hu'nk, unk, adv. simultaneously loc. and temp., referring to acts 

 performed or states undergone in the distance and proximity, most fre- 

 quently in the past tense, but sometimes in the present and future tense 

 also; not translatable in English. Connected with intransitive verbs we 

 find it in: nu h. tiii'ma / was hungry ; at h. pdn pala-ash ye were eating 

 bread; maklaks h ndniik wawapkan the Indians all sitting around, 14, 5.; 

 wak i h. giug ka-i u'na gii'mpele? why did you not go home yesterday? sha 

 h. spu'klitcha they start out for sweating, 88, 3 ; 1 unk h^mkanka you were 

 talking. With transitive verbs it occurs in: lakf p'nd h. shu'ldshash hi- 

 hashual%an the commander then placing his soldiers in ambush, 14, 3.; nd- 

 ul^a h ge'n Jie resolved, 94, 3.; h. na-a'sht gi Aishish so said Aishish, 

 95, 21.; tdnk a nu h. shu'ktga I struck myself sometime ago with the hand 



