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In the Tutelo an ¢ is sometimes prefixed to the possessive pronouns, as 
in ati, house, which makes 
ewe my house emantt our house 
eyate Givi eyatiput your: ** 
Cale Wee *? cali-led their ‘‘ 
In this case the final vowel of the pronouns wi and y? is elided before the 
initial aof thenoun. Soin minéwa, I sec him, the vowel of the prefixed pro- 
noun ma, I, is elided before the vowel of the verb énewa, to see. Some 
other euphonic changes of the possessive pronoun in the Tutelo are shown 
in the following example : 
Dakota, Tutelo, 
pa pasit, head 
mapa mimpasiut, my head 
nipa yinpasit, thy si 
po epasut, his ¢e 
unpape emankpasii, our heads 
nipape eyinkpasuput your 
pape epasii-let thei’; 
In Tutelo, <a’, my father, isan anomalous form, used instead of mat’, 
oremat. With the other affixes the word becomes y@’ (or dati), thy father, 
eat’, his father (or their father), emadat’, our father, eyatpui, your father. 
A good example of the use of the prefixed personal pronouns in the Tu- 
telo is shown in the word for son. There were slight differences in the 
forms received from two of my informants, as here given: 
witéka witékat my son 
yiteka 
etéhka 
manktéka 
yitéhabut 
yitékat 
elékat 
emanktékat 
yitékadut 
thy son 
his son 
our son 
your son 
their son 
etéka etehahlét 
Minék’, my uncle (in Dakota midekg?) is thus varied: Yiné’, thy uncle 
(Dak. nédekgi), einék’, his uncle (Dak. degithw), emainek, our uncle, einek- 
put, your uncle, einek? or eek -let, their uncle. 
In the word for brother, dijinumbai (or tikinumbat), the possessive pro- 
nouns are inserted after the first syllable, and in this instance they are 
used in the nominative form : 
imoaginumbat my brother matinginumbat our brother 
thyagnumbat thy brother thyaginumbabiit your brother 
ingiginumbat his brother ingiginumbas their brother 
The Dakota and Hidatsa have lengthened forms of the personal pro- 
nouns to indicate property in things, or ‘transferable possession.’’ These 
are in the former, mita, my, nita, thy, and ta, his, as mita-oispe, my axe, 
nita-cuivke, thy dog. These pronouns are also used with koda, friend, and 
kitcuna, comrade. In Hidatsa mata, dita (for nita), and ita, are used in a 
similar manner. In the Tutelo the pronouns of this form occurred in a 
