SPECIMENS OF SYNONYMY. 699 



shupat'lamna is "to tie it around tlie back in a piece of cloth," liaslipuakia 

 "to carry it while placing- the arms or one arm under its legs," hashkaga 

 "to carry it on the breast." 



Folding is expressed generically by spagal;^a, "to fold, double up;" 

 the nouns pakalaksh and spagalaksh signify "fold, crease," and the former 

 term figures in numeral adjectives like fourfold, sixfold.* These words 

 are all derivatives from j)aka, mbaka "to break." "To fold" in such a 

 manner as blankets or other sheets are folded in a warehouse is skiipal%a ; 

 "to fold" as folds appear in the dress as worn, shkashkapshtchal^a ; ski'itash 

 shkashkapshtchalxatko "the blanket shows folds when enveloping the body." 



To grasj), when used in the general sense of "taking, seizing," is shnuka, 

 shnukua, "taking to oneself" slnmkpa ; "to grasp a small object," so that 

 the fingers of the seizing hand touch the thumb on the other side, shatash- 

 t^nka ; when the object is larger, so that the "fingers do not meet on the 

 side opposite," shatasht/fipka (-apka expressing distance) ; when the object 

 is "grasped so that the fingers of one or both hands keep moving along its 

 circumference," shatashkakiamna. 



To stick iq) oil one^s head is an act expressed by a large variety of terms. 

 Sha-ula is "to stick up something upon the top of the head" that will ex- 

 tend upon it from the forehead to the occiput, hence shawalsh crest of birds 

 and other related significations, q. v. "To take off that object from the 

 head-top" is sha-ulola ; "to place erect upon, to make stand one object on 

 one's head," is shatuala, upon "another person's head" hashatuala ; hence 

 shatualtko liisli "one feather standing uj) vertically on one's head," hasha- 

 tualtko lash "on another person's head." When many objects are "made 

 to stand up straight on one's head in a bunch," this is shildshuala ; "feathers 

 set up" in that manner: shiltchawaltko or sfldshualtko lash. Shc'tkwal is 

 "to place a bunch of feathers on the top of one's head," shakwaltko hish "a 

 bunch of feathers stuck up there;" shakf;i;i is "to have it" or "wear it upon 

 the back of the head or the shoulders;" shakf^itko lash "one who wears it" 

 there. "A crest of hair going over the top of the head" is hishkwaltko lak. 

 Tiita, d. tiitata, tut'ta, signifies "to stick obliquely one long object upon 

 somebody," either on his head or body; hence the reflective form shuteta 



*C'f. sbantcliaktiiiitko iu Dictionary iiiul on jiage 531 of Gr.animar. 



