=—— 
ry 
1884, ] 407 [Brinton, 
SUPPLEMENT. 
The following additional material, necessary to a grammatical survey 
of the tongue, I have culled from the various MS. sources heretofore men- 
tioned. 
CoMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. 
This is accomplished by the use of the particles chic, as, nim chic halal, 
a little larger, ki, and atea, as, atea quiwan pe, come a little nearer ; and 
by adding the past participles, iqovinak and yalaquhinak, which mean to 
pass beyond, to exceed, as, iqovinah chi nim, greater (it exceeds in great- 
ness), yalaquhinak chi ute, better (it surpasses in goodness). 
INTERJECTIONS. 
Ahkook! or akookee! Ah! Alas! Oh! Expressive of sadness or com- 
passion, This is much used by the priests in their sermons. 
Acay! When one is beaten or ill treated. 
Age! When one is suffering pain, as, for example, when bitten by 
some animal. The correlative of this interjection in the particle Xe, which 
is placed at the end of the sentence, as, Age, equi cam Xe | Alas! TI shall 
die ! 
0, A, Ae, are exclamations of admiration asin the compounds, A bin q% 
O mathan re, ete. 
Aco! Oh! expressing a wish, as, Aco mixat nuqul, Oh! that thou 
hadst come ! 
Kitah, kitari, kitanari, kitanaqa, kitanaan, queretah, queretare ; all these 
are desiderative or deprecatory. The root of the first five is the particle hi 
which is used to ask a question in a confident and friendly manner, hence 
kiteih, the truth, 
ADVERBS. 
AFFIRMATIVE ADvERBS. Kitath, truly; kiteihan, very truly ; waigqa, 
also; qo, he, waviute, itis well; haquere, be it so ; haqgaquere, in the same 
way. 
Nuoarrvn Apverss. Mani or maqui, not ; caw mani vi, by no means, not 
at all; mahani, not even ; maquiam queretah, it is not so; mahaniok, is a 
negative indicating past time, as, mahaniok tikaxih tok mt winol, the sun 
had not yet set when Icame. The particles da and ma are used as nega- 
tives in the singular number, second and third persons, especially with im- 
peratives, as, ba ban ri, do not thou do that; ba malih aque, do not be 
faint-hearted. In the plural these words become 0é and mi, as, mt ban ri, 
do not you do that; b¢ pokonarigah iti, do not abuse one another. The 
form maqui tanaan, x compound of maqua, not, tan, particle of present 
time, and an, an emphatic particle, is a negative, corresponding to the 
affirmative ki tanaan; they have the meanings, ‘‘not now at any rate,’’ 
and, ‘even now at any rate.’”?’ The compound mamanion, is a negative 
interrogative, or alternative, as, awvetaam pe, mamanion? Dost thou know 
