620 DAKOTA —- ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 
ye, @ particle, which often follows | 
at the close of a sentence to give 
emphasis to what is said. It is 
used by the women as “do” is by 
the men; as, wanna mdusgtay ye, 
TI have already finished. Sometimes 
this is used by the men, and is not 
unfrequently followed by ‘“‘do;” 
as, eéamoyn yedo, maku yedo. 
ye, pron. 2d pers. compounded of 
“va” and “ki;” as in yeksuya, of 
kiksuya. 
ye’-ga, v.n. to shine, ghiter. T., 
llega, 
yehi, cont. of yega. T., ileli. 
yel-ya’, v.a. to cause to shine, to 
make shine—yeliwaya. T., ileliya. 
yeh-ye’-ga, v. red. of yega; to 
glisten, twinkle, sparkle. T., ilehlega. 
ye-ki’-ya, v.a. of ya; to cause to 
go, to send, drive ; to extend to, as the 
hand; nape yewakiya. 
ye-ki’-ya, v.a. to bet, to stake any- 
thing. This is connected with the 
one preceding, as the Dakotas tie 
on to a stick the articles staked in 
« dance, for example: yewakiya. 
ye’-la-kas,adv. T. 1.9. nakaeés; 
indeed, truly, etc.; since; as, because. 
ye-lo’, fT. ig. yedo; but after the 
plur. terminatior ‘‘pi” the ‘‘ye” is 
often dropped, and the ‘pi” be- 
comes ‘‘pe,” e. g., heéel eéonpe lo. 
ye-sSa or ye-San, com. 2. 4. g. 
esa; although 
ye-Sa’-hay, con. T. i. g. eStan- 
han. 
ye-sas’, my. 7. 74.q: estas. 
ye-Si’, v.a. to command to go, to 
send—yewasi. 
ye-ya’, v.a._ to cause to go, to send ; 
to extend to. 
ye-ye’, v. to be, exist. 
yo, Ih. and T. — the sign of the im- 
perative singular, used by men: 
a. g. wo—€eti yo, make a fire. 
yo-tan’-ka, v. n. to sit; suk- 
tanka akan yotanka and Sujk akan 
yotanka, to ride on horseback—mdo- 
tanka. See iyotanka. 
yu, a causative prefix. It expresses 
the idea of causation in some way 
not conveyed by ‘‘ba,” “bo,” “ka,” 
“na,” “pa,” and “ya;” as, yuna- 
zin, to cause to stand or to lift up; 
yukakiza, to cause to suffer. Some- 
times it conveys the idea of pulling. 
Asa prefix to adjectives, and some- 
times nouns, it forms verbs of them, 
and means to make or cause to be; 
as, yuwaste, to make good. 
yu or yun, imtj. Said when one 
is hurt, wh! See yuhubu. 
yu-a’-dos-do-za-se i-ye-ya, 
v.a. to injure one’s feelings in any 
way. See adosdoza and yaéanti- 
yap’a iyeya. 
yu-a’-ka-hpa, v.of akalipa; yu- 
akalipa iéu, to draw anything over 
one, as a blanket turned down. 
yu-a’-kan, v. of akan; yuakan 
hiyuya, to cause to come up to the 
top. 
yu-a-ka-za-mni, v. a. of aka- 
zammni; to open out, uncover : yuaka- 
zamni iyeya. 
