ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 857 



Local adverbs enter frequently into compound words of tbis kind : 



dz'ek' da Mt, i)ii)e = smoke aToxmd box. gan da da gu'gd, woodpecker = tree-out- 

 to uq rire't, whistle = into blow instru- side pick. 



ment. k'irl t'c'k-'c, icicle = above ice. 



ail k'a niigu. Ainica, cordifolia = town A;-a;(y/Vyi-«fl^(;', aurora = fire-like weather 



on medicine. colour. 



ditj kara kidjc't, horse = back upon kin dc t&unv't. Anas boschas = moving 



sit. straight up. 



The names of colours are compound words : 



k-an yi'qate, red = fire-like colour. tied yiqate, white = snow-like colour. 



kM ha'tlii yiqatS, yellow = dog dung colour. 



THE ADJECTIVE. 



The adjective follows the substantive to which it belongs, except when it has a 

 verbal meaning : 



tciitl qtih, dried halibut. aqa dare't, oar = long paddle. 



Ktit curd', half fathom. tldk r'tdzT-, reed = wide grass. 



latl g'&'tsltu, young dog. hit tlcn, large house. 



When the adjective stands for our adjective with the verbum substantivum, it 

 generally precedes the substantive : 



a tlen hit, that is a large house. 



Four is evidently the second two, five a derivative from djin, hand, while the 

 nunibcr> from 6 to 8 are the other one, two, three. Ten seems to mean both hands ; 

 20 is cue man ; 100, five men ; while the numbers from 30 to 90 mean three, four, 

 five, i:c. tens. 



In counting men the following numerals are used : 



1 man tlZ' UEq kd. 4 men dak'rme' nsq kd. 



2 men dKq nuq kd. 5 men krdjinv' nnq kd. 



;? men natskye neq kd. 6 men tie durcu' nsq kd. 



Tlie same numerals may be used in counting dogs. 



OuDiNAL Numbers. 



The following ordinal numbers differ to some extent from those g^iven by 

 Weniiarainov, and appear in parts doubtful : 



cnka', the first. tlaqk-ara(dr'a), the fifth. 



i'ta, the second. tlP duTeura(dr'a). the sixth. 



t'a/ra{de'a), the third. daqa darciira(di'a), the seventh. 



onira(dt'a), the fourth. natska durcu ra(di''a), the eighth. 



ISO far as I was able to discover, the cardinal numbers are generally used in place 



of the ordinal numbers. 



