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sko’-pi (pl. -piks), tortoises. 
ma-to’-is-¢i, a hair worm. 
i-ski-se’-na (pl. -naks), worms. 
a-po’-ni (pl. -niks), butterflies. 
tse-ka/-a-tse (pl. -tse-iks), grasshoppers. 
tup-i-kai’-nim, a large cricket. 
si-ki-tup’-i-kai, a common cricket. 
at-si’-na-ko, a mosquito hawk. 
stis-kris’-i, a mosquito. 
o-muk-siis’-kris-i, a large horsefly. 
ut-si/-mo-sis’-kri-si, a stinking fly that swarms about 
meat. 
u-sko’-kin, a large ant. 
ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
o-ko’-ma, a body louse. 
a-tse’-tsi-ksim, cottonwood. 
ka-po’-ksim, the ash. 
pah’-tok, pine. 
sik-si-no-kok’, cedar, or blackberry pine, so called 
from its black fruit. 
o-tohi’-o-tsist. Opuntia Missouriensis. 
O. Nuttall. 
ak-spis’, gummy weed. 
dt-sta’-tsi-man. 
Grindelia squarrosa. 
mas, pomme blanche. Psoralea esculenta. 
dts-e’-nist, strawberry. Mragaria Virginiana. 
QislAISAMIRIR, We 
VOCABULARY OF THE SIK-SI-KA’ OR BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE. 
A. 
across, a-pum’-ots. 
Adam’s apple, i-to-kits’-kris-tun. 
after a while, ni-ta’-tum-i; I will come after a while, 
ni-ta’/-tum-i-tup’-o. 
air, a-mi-puk’. 
alive, e-te’-pi. 
all, it-si’-na-ka; the whole, ki/-na; all, entirely, mo- 
tu’-sa ; all icy, mo-tu’-sa-ko-ku’-to. 
ankle, ki-tah’-o-kin-a’-ki. 
annoying, ska’-aps. 
arm, o’-Cis; right arm, i-toh’-si; left arm, i-a-kris’-o- 
ks. 
armpit, oli-ris’. 
around or about, a-ko’-kats; around about the vil- 
lage, ko-na’-to-ka’-to-a-ko’-kats. 
to arrive, ma’-no-tu. 
arrow, aps, or ap/-si; an arrow point, sa’-ku-pun; 
who owns these arrows ? ta’-ka-mi-a-psi’-wa. 
ashamed, ne-tu’-yis. 
ashes, muks-kit/-si. 
asleep, o’-kau; sleeping, i-yo’-kau. 
to be astonished, ki-o’-to. 
at, u-ni’-mai; at the house, mu-yis’-u-ni’-mai. 
autumn, mu-ku’. 
axe, ko’-ksa-kin. 
B. 
back, as the back part of the head or body, na-ka’- 
kin-i; back, backward, ali-pa-to’-tsi; back, in past 
time, mi-sam’. 
bad, ba-kaps’, ba-ka’-psu, me-ska/-psu; a bad boy, ba- 
ka’-psa-ko-ma’-pi. 
bank, of the river, at-siks’; the bank is near by, it- 
sat’-siks. 
bark, of a tree, o-tdk’-skris. 
barrel, su’-i-in. 
beads: red beads, a-mank’-sku ; black beads, si-ksi’-no- 
ku; white beads, about the size of pigeons’ eggs, 
used in the Indian trade, ¢ik’-sku. 
beak, of a bird, pi-kso’-kris-is. 
beans, o-to’-ksi-nu’-tsi. 
beard, mo-yo’-yi. 
bed, sa’-a-kan. 
behind, a-pa-toli’-si. 
belly, o-ku’-a. 
belt, or sash, me-pis; pl. me-pis¢’. 
to bend, ta-wa’-ksi-pin’-a-ki; bent, a-ksi-kin’-o-tuks. 
better, su-kaps’. 
between or among, se-to-ko’ksin. 
beyond, sa-toh’-si; beyond the ridge, pau-ali’-u-i-sa- 
toh’-si. 
black, sik-si-nim’. 
