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few examples, but only with certain words of personal connection or rela- 
tions, in which their use seems to resemble that of the Dakota pronouns 
with the words meaning ‘‘comrade”’ and ‘friend.’? Thus we heard 
witamanki, my husband, yitamanki, thy husband, etémanki, her hus- 
band. So witamihewi, my wife (i. e my woman), yitdémihen, thy 
wife; and witagitgkai, my son, % e ‘my boy,’ from wagiite- 
kai, boy (evidently the same word as the Dakota koghka, young 
man). In the latter example witagitckai, apparently expresses a lower 
bond or sense of relationship than witékat,—not ‘‘my child,’”? but ‘my 
boy,”’ or ‘‘my youth,’? who may leave me and go elsewhere at any time. 
In Tutelo the pronouns indicating property or ‘transferable pos- 
session’’ were commonly found in a separate and apparently compound 
form, following the noun, which was then sometimes (though not always) 
heard in the shortened or ‘‘construct’’ form. Thus with hisépi, axe, we 
have : 
” 
hisép’ migitowi (or mikitowt) my axe hisép’ mahgitowi — our axe 
hisép’ yingitowt thy axe hisép’ ingitombui your axe 
hisép’ gitowt his axe hisep’ gitohner their axe 
So sds, bed, has sds mingitowt, my bed, sas yingitowl, thy bed, sas gi- > 
towi, his bed. 
With tcongo, dog, we find a different form : 
tgongo wahkimpt my dog teongo maokimpi (or mahkimpi) our dog 
tgongo yahkimpt thy dog  teongo yahkimg iti your dog 
teongo cohkimpt his dog  tgonigo kimpena their dog 
The first of these forms, migitowi, &e., is evidently the same that ap: 
pears in the Dakota mitawa, mine, witawa, thine, tawa, his, urbitawa, ours. 
The Hidatsu has similar forms, matamae, ditamae, and ttamae, often pro- 
nounced mataoae, nitawae, and ttawvae. Dr. Matthews regards them as 
compounds formed by prefixing the pronouns mata, dita (nita) and tta to 
the noun mae (or wae) signifying personal property, which seems a very 
probable explanation, 
The form wahkimpi may be similarly explained. In Dakota Adpé signi- 
fies, to keep for me, and ips, to hold or contain. The sense of property or 
possession is apparently implied, and teongo wahkimpi in Tutelo probably 
means ‘‘the dog my property,’’ or ‘‘the dog I have.’’ 
The possessive pronouns are used by themselves in Tutelo in the follow- 
ing affirmative and negative forms : i 
mimignlowt Cor mimigstowe, or mikitow?) ' mine, or, it is mine 
yingitowt (yingttowe, ytnkitow?) thine, or, it is thine 
ingitowl (ingitowe, inkitow?) his, or, it is his 
maggitowt (or mahgitowe, or mahkitow?) ours, or, it is ours 
yingitombus (or yin 'eitombut) yours, or, it is yours 
gitonnésel (or kitomnesel) theirs, or it is theirs 
