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tive are not represented here, but that the existing ones coincide with those 

 inflecting other nouns. 



Tlie pronouns of tlie singuhir all end in -i, and ni has a parallel form 

 nu ; in the plural all end in -at, with long a ; the plural objective case ends 

 in -lash, the possessive in -lam, though sha they, which is not represented 

 in the singular, and probably was once a reflective pronoun, forms an 

 exception. 



A majority of the monosyllabic pronouns is unaccented, and therefore 

 used proclitically and enclitically. Subject-pronouns are often placed twice 

 in the same sentence, another term intervening. 



Nu, ni of the first person is etymologically related to nat ive, and pi he, 

 she to pat thei/; the oblique cases in the second person make it probable that 

 the original forms of i and at were mi and mat, and tliat they took their 

 present forms to distinguish them from mi thine and the particle mat, ma. 

 Apparently, no diff"erence exists between ml and ni I; but the objective 

 case nush, nish abbreviates in ish onl}^, not in ush, and the emphatic forms 

 ntitoks, nutak, nu tala are much more frequent than nitoks, nitak, ni tala. 

 In a few instances we find nu used for the plural ive, for ive includes also 

 the first person of the singular : 



Mpi ai nil witii'mak here we are two young black bears, 177; 2. 

 lapi ai ni gi'wash here we are two squirrels, 177 ; 14. 



I thou appears sometimes in a compound emphatic form : ik, ike, Mod. 

 iki, e'ki, the second part being the demonstrative pronoun ke, ke, ge, gi this 

 one, or the demonstrative adverb ke, ki right here. This compound form is 

 chiefly used in imperative and interrogative sentences. I and ik, ike are 

 often used for the plural at ye, because when in a meeting one is addressed, 

 the others are addressed also. Examples : 



i lapuk loth of you, 60, 6. 



gdpke i tul' ish husho'kank ik a watchatka ! come and ride with me on 



horsebacl' ! 

 na's jjen lu'ktch' ik shankish-pakish ! bring me one more watermelon ! 

 wAk lish i'k loli a nen Tetematchishash ! vjliy, then, do ye believe what 



Tetemdtchish says f 64, 10. Cf. ibid., 11. 15. 59, 7. 



