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mtikuala to encamp in or upon the mountains. 

 niakuna to encamp at the foot of a mountain. 

 UK'dsha to revioce, to migrate; cf. I'dslia. 

 ni(iwa to encamp away from home, to live on the prairie. 

 meya to dig edible roots etc., said of one person; cf me-ish digging ground, 

 md-idsha etc. 



n-, prefix frequently occurring in transitive and intransitive verbs and 

 their nominal derivatives, and referring to sheet-like, thin, smooth, pliant, 

 and thread-like articles, or to objects having a level, horizontal surface, or 

 to acts and motions referring to the above or to some distant spot on the 

 line of the horizon. It composes the prefixes nu- and shn-, the latter hav- 

 ing causative functions. 



In its various uses this prefix may be classified as follows: 



(a) It is prefixed to terms descriptive of or relating to thin, sheet-like, 

 string-like articles, as cloth, mats, hats, ropes, handkerchiefs, paper, paper 

 money, soles, skins, and especially the wings and flight of birds. 



nAkia to patch, mend, as garments. 



nii, ne'\ fur -skin ; tiny feather of bird; from ne'l: nelina to scalp. 



n^ya, ne-i to give, hand over, pay in paper money. 



nep palm of hand, hand; napenapsh temple-hone. 



ne'ds^a to lay on top a thin article; cf ndtatka. 



nel;{a to lay down, deposit; cf l^lka, ^l%a, shl^lktcha. 



ni long snow-shoe ; buckskin sole. 



ndshakw^ta to hang, drop down,, as curtains. 



nd'hlish bowstring. 



n^na, ninia, nainaya to flap, move the ivings, to flutter. 



naggidsha to float, circle in the air ; cf aggddsha. 



n^ta to fix, paste, or put on. 



(b) n- occurs in terms referring to places of wide and level extent, as 

 prairies, water-sheets; to phenomena observed above the ground, as weather, 



