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about in this way, a good example of which may be seen in the teritis for beaver. 
In the N’tlaka’pamug we find the common word for this animal is s’ntiya. But the 
primary signification of this term is not beaver but ‘wealth,’ ‘treasure,’ ‘riches.’ 
Beaver-skins in the old fur-trading days were a standard of value; hence beaver- 
skins are ‘ wealth’ or ‘ riches,’and hence the application of the term to the animal 
itself. But there is also another term.quite commonly employed to designate the 
beaver by, viz., gk” dpa, which is derived by severe syncopation from gtlukt, broad, 
and cu'pa, tail. Hither of these terms may stand for the word beaver, yet neither 
of them is the primitive term commonly employed before the division of the Salish 
stock took place. The word common to the greatest number of tribes is ske’lé, or 
some modification of it. It is the ordinary term for beaver in the dialects of 
contiguous tribes, both above and below. It is also used by the Coast and Vancouver 
Island Salish, and even by one division of the Kwakiutl. It must, therefore, have 
been thrust aside in the dialect of the N’tlaka’pamug and forgotten, and the 
other synonymous terms taken its place, for I could not find it upon inquiry. 
The following expressions will serve as examples to show the difference between 
the compounded and the independent forms :— 
Compound 
Forms 
Independent 
English Bonhe 
Examples of Synthesis 
| 
| 
| pau-c-kin, I am swollen in the 
| face. 
|) teti-tic-ena, I struck him on 
the face. 
| {ers hair. 
face —iic and —c | sk’tli’c . 
! 
—kan and 
head —k'ain 
tet-kai'n-na, I struck him on 
the head. 
f qo'ne-akst-kin, I have hurt my | 
\ hand; more correctly, I am 
hurt as to my hand. 
{fist og thumb, z.e, the 
| 
| ku’mk-an 
hand —akst . ké'uq 4 
finger . —kainkst lakst ‘first finger;’ koa’-kainkst, 
—cin and 
—tcin 
mouth . 
people . . | —muq. 
nose —ak's 
—kumau- . 
pam . 
skap-. 
breast 
fire 4 
hair 
house . —iQg and tlig 
-mai— and 
light , a 
ften’tein or 
| splu’tein 
citkinmugq 
sp’sa‘k's . 
ska‘am . 
c’pam 
..| skapk‘an 
tei’tig 
rtd 
finger-nail. 
stli'pein, jaw or chin. 
n’tew'tein. 
{ K-umtcin’/-muq, people of 
K-umtci'n. 
{ tza'ak's, long-nose, from tzaqt, 
long, and sp’sa’k's, nose. 
tlil-kumau’-tcih, chest. 
pam-a'ta, make a fire. 
skapka'tmm, to be struck on the 
head. The difference between 
this term and the one aboye 
in the compound for ‘head’ 
is interesting. When the 
blow has been given by some- 
| body ‘ain’ must be used; 
when the blow is from above 
on that part of the head 
| where the hair grows, in- 
flicted by an inanimate ob- | 
| ject by striking the head | 
against it, ‘skap’ is always 
used. 
( Swa/tlig, white man’s house. | 
mita’tlug, church, i.c. house of 
| prayer. 
| ma/-qEtEn, moon, lit. light- 
above instrument; mEA’, 
daybreak ; ma’auiEnu’Q, 
dawn, lit. light is spreading. 
