1884.] 
my younger sister 
my spouse 
my father-in-law 
my mother-in-law 
my brother-in-law 
my sister-in-law 
my son by a former marriage 
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By males, 
nu qrute Vana 
viahail 
nu hinam 
nu hite 
nu baluc, nu hi 
vianam 
nu yah qahol 
my daughter by a former marriage nu yah mial 
my male cousin 
my female cousin 
my grandson 
my granddaughter 
nu chad 
nu nahtiana 
nu mam 
nu mam 
(Brinton, 
By females, 
nu nimalate 
vachahiil 
valinam 
wvalite 
vechanim 
vali 
nu yah al 
nu yah twok at 
nu nahtt aibat 
nu nahtt nimal 
oly 
oly 
Many of these are compound words, whose meanings are easily 
reached ; nimal is from nim or nima, large, great ; ghuti, is small, little ; 
twok, female ; widal, male; yah, the organs of generation of either sex (nu 
yah qahol = the son of my body) ; nat or nahti, remote, distant. Balue 
and /4do not mean brother-in-law in our senso, but are applied to all 
males of the chinamétl or gens into which the speaker has married. The 
general word for parentage is aca, which is used as in the following sen- 
tence: qoh pe aca quichin qui chiquibil qui vac qvlubel? Is there any rela- 
tionship between these who are about to marry ? 
The terms given as used by women only do not in any manner indicate 
a different linguistic origin. It will be seen that several of them are from 
the word al, used above for son and daughter (¢wok al == female al) ; this 
is a form from alan, to bring forth, to give birth to, and is no doubt con- 
nected with al, a load, a burden, as in English we say of a pregnant 
woman, ‘‘She is carrying.’”? These terms, therefore, must be considered 
specializations of relationship which are used only by the women because 
they are from points of view, which, in the nature of things, are peculiar 
to that sex. Strictly speaking, they are not linguistic peculiarities at all. 
These particles, rt, ha, hart, mean “this;” as ta bana ri, do 
this. Ha may be used demonstratively as in this sentence, Ha 
tahox tiban avumal, This is proper, that it be done by you. It 
may also be used for tle, tlla, tllud; as: Dios xbana cah vleuh 
waviha xbano ronohel q,etom maqui q,etom (tzetom). God 
made the heavens, the earth, and He made all that we see and 
do not see. The particle hari may stand for iste, ista, istud, as 
in this example: Hari vae tzth tavi tibija chivichin kiteth 
cht lo, These words which I speak to you are truly precious, 
It may also be used for ipse, ipsa, ipsum, as, Mixcam ri Pedro, 
PROC. AMER, PHILOS. 800, xxr. 115. 20. PRINTED APRIL 9, 1884. 
