ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 887 



don't you we him ? a'yentl mEnc'etsdE ? 



who said it ? natl h&'udE ? {jtrohably = whote iayiruj ?) 



where is he n-ho made it? (he ahxenf), ndatl na dEi'n ts'a'pdEdaf 



„ „ (he present), nda na dEi'n ts'a'pdEda ? 



when <Nd he arrive? ndatl da batsgEdfida ? 

 when n-iU lie arrive ? ndatl dEm da batsgEdEda ? 

 when did you arrive ' nda da batsgEn ? 

 when will you arrive? nda dEm da batsgEn? 



., „ tsEdEnda dEm da batsgEn? 



ickose house is it ? natl walbE gua'a ? 



I add a few sentences that will be found of interest from a syntactic point of 

 •view : ' 



I shall cause you not to come, atlgEn dEm k-a'EdEksEnt. 

 maybe he is iwt coming, a'j-ensEntl dEm k-a'EdEkst. 

 do you hear that he is net coming ? nEqm^'yentl dEm wa k'il'EdEk^idE 7 

 1 hear he is «7>/i, nEqEnO'yO sie'pgEtgE. 

 h/" says he {another man) in sick, ma'tldEdE si'epgEdEt. 

 / hojw it will he good weather, nEsEntl amtl laqa'. 

 1 hope he is not sick, nEsEntl wa si'epgEdE. 

 I 7vish to drink, sa'rau dEm a'ksO. 



/ order him to come, guna'yO dEm k'a'EdEksEt = I order his future coming. 

 J see you are eati)ig, ne'etsO wul ya'niqk-En = I see where you eat. 

 it is mi tic, ne'et nE'riO. 

 it is George, nene'es Dsords. 

 I might fall down, k-a'inane gye'En. 

 you might fall down, k-a'inaEn gye'En. 



if J fall, I shall hurt myself, tsEda sak-a'inac, dEm sg-a'iksgEnO. 

 if I had fallen, T should hare hurt myself, ame'en tsE sak-a'inae nan dEii 



.sga'iksgEuO. 

 1 give the knife to you, gyena'mo hatlEbi'etsgEda guan. 



Note.— Every word referring to a person, more especially to a nomen proprium, 

 takes the suffix -s : 



George's eanoe, qsa'Es Dsords. 



George and John, Dsords dis DsOn {in other cases : ditl). 



FORMATION OF WORDS. 



It may be well to call attention to a few of the formative elements and to the 

 manner of composing words. One of the most remarkable features of the Tsimsliian 

 vocabulary is the indiscriminate use of words for nouns and verbs but still more that 

 of words as prepositions and verbs. Among these we note : 



ivdtk, from and to come. 



ga, at and to take. 



ksdq, out and to leave the house. 



da, with, at and to elope, to take with. 



ts'E'lKm, into and to put into. 



We ma3' say in a general way that the prepositions serve at the same time as 

 verbs expressing a motion or location corresponding to the preposition. 

 Among formative elements of words we note the following : 



am, used for : amhald'it, headdress = used in dance. 



TVi, large : wthuldy., many ; wud'Kgyat, old = great people. 



wihutit, to cry. 

 W(), without : wonlo'otlk, without nest (a name). 



Kokscnd'tlk, without breath (a name). 



wuk-'a'uts, without labret = g^rl. 



k-, place of, only occurring in geographical names : 



Z(?<7(l)-*(2)-%?w(3)-m//7'w«(-t) = on (I) where (2) little (.S) haws 



(4) ; an island near Fort Simpson. 

 j:«njc(l)-A(2)-jn'/i-(:^) = place (1) where (2) scalps (3). 



