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There are also a few terms designating classes of human beings who 

 are not relations: 



pshe-iitiwash, archaic term for jieople. 

 ptchiwip master, mistress of slave. 



A prefix p- of a similar import, referring to the personality of the sub- 

 ject, is embodied in the following terms : 



Nouns. 

 pshish nose, snout; pish bile; pitiu deiv-daw. 

 pe'tchyoo^; pilhap sinew. 



Verbs. 

 p^wa to bathe, plunge, ivash oneself ; of. dwa, tch^wa, pdna, pdnkua. 

 plena to scrape sidewise; from dna. 

 putuya to remove sod; c£ vutoya to dig tvith a spade. 

 ptchikl/a, Mod. ptcha'hlka to stroke, 2)at; cf shatdlaka. 

 pni'wa to blow, to fill tvith air; cf. p'ni, shipnu. 

 puedsha to reject, scatter, expend; cf. idsha. 



Cf the compound prefix sp-, shp-. 



pe-, a prefix occurring only in transitive verbs with plural or collective 

 object, which is either of a round, rounded, or of a heavy, bulky form ; 

 sometimes the prefix also refers to sheet-like objects and to animate beings. 



pt^-ula to lay dotvn, deposit; one obj., likla. 

 pewi, pii'wi to give, hand over, pay ; one obj., luya, lui. 

 pe-uyega to lift, gather up ; one obj., luy^ga. 

 pe-ukanka to hold in hand; one obj., luyamna 

 petega to tear to pieces, as cloth ; from nd^ga. 

 pek^wa to break to pieces, smash up ; from kdwa. 



Sll-, S-. This prefix, the most frequent of all, is used in forming medial 

 verbs, as they may be appropriately termed after their correlatives in the 

 Greek language. The medial prefix sh-, s- is the remnant of a personal 

 pronoun of the third person, now extant only in its plural fomn : sha they, 



