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un’-ma—wa. 487 
u-S§do’-ni-ya, . amineral spring; 
ow 
deposited from 
water, as sulphate of iron or cop- 
mineral sediment 
peras. This word would seem to be 
formed from ‘‘u,” fo come, ‘‘Sdo,” to 
meltor liquefy, as metals, and “niya,” 
to breathe, as if the metal came out 
liquefied by the earth’s breath. 
u-$do’-wi-wi, %. 
a yellow sediment. 
u-$i’, v. a. (u and $1) 
a swamp with 
See wiwi. 
to command to 
come, send—uwasi. 
W-Stan, wv: 
See unstay. 
u’-ta, 2. 
imperat. only; stop. 
an acorn, acorns, black oak 
acorns. 
WMT a Oh Uh 
to attempt, try to do a thing—uwata, 
ujkutapi: fo try, as a gun in firing 
it off; to fire off. T., iyuta. 
w-ta-hu, 2. an oak tree. See utuhu. 
w-ta-hu-éayn, ». ZF. oak wood. 
u-tam’, 2. «a load or charge of a 
gun, plural, utapi, loads ;_ ota utam, 
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|u-ya’, v. a. 
to try, taste anything, | 
a gun of many charges—a repeater : 
ota utapi. 
u-tkan’-na, adv. 
deal. T., yutkanla. 
u-tkayn’-tkan-na, adv. 
utkanna. 
much, a great 
red. of 
T., yutkaytkanla. 
the black oak, Quer- 
See uskuyeéahu. 
u-tu’-hu, x. 
cus nigra. 
We an en Ae ig. ituhan: 
u-tu’-héin, adv. T. 
u-tu’-ki-hay, v 
im vain. 
T. i. q. itukihan. 
u-tu’-ya, adv. T. 1. q. ituya. 
u-tw-ya-Gin, adv. T. for naught. 
wW-wa, v. imperat. come. Used by 
women. 
to cause to go; to send, 
to start—uwaya, uyaya. 
u-ya’, v. n. -to come; 
sniyay uya, it is becoming cold; to 
to become: 
grow, spring up, as grass. 
u-ye’-ki-ya, v. a to cause to 
grow ov spring up—uyewakiya. 
u-ye’-ya, v. a. 
uyewaya. 
to cause to come— 
Ww. 
w, the twenty-sixth letter of the Dakota | 
alphabet, having the same sound 
that it has in the beginning of 
words in English. 
wa, pron. im comp. I. 
wa, m. snow. 
wa, v.n. tosnow. See wapa. 
wa, anabbreviation of wahanksiéa. 
a prefix. When used with 
verbs it usually puts them in 
the absolute or intransitive state, 
wa, 
that is, the verb is changed into 
an adjective, or neuter, or pass- 
ive verb; as, waonsida, merciful, 
from onsida, to have mercy wpon. 
In some cases it forms of them 
nouns denoting the agent or 
actor. Indeed, the absolute forms 
may all be so used; as, wanikiya, 
a savior. When prefixed to nouns, 
it makes their signification more 
general, 
