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In Chayma ; quenpotupra quoguaz, I do not 

 know, properly, knowing not I am. In Tama- 

 nack, jar er-uac-ure, bearing am I, I bear ; anare- 

 pra aichi, he will not bear, properly, bearing not 

 will he ; patcurbe, good ; patcutari, to make 

 himself good ; Tamanacu, a Tamanack ; Ta- 

 manacutari, to make himself a Tamanack ; 

 Pongheme, a Spaniard ; ponghemtari, to spa- 

 niardize himself ; tenectschi, I will see ; teneicre, 

 I will see again ; tecscha, I go ; tecshare, I re- 

 turn ; may pur butke, a little Maypure Indian » 

 aicabuthe, a little woman * ; maypuritaji, an 

 ugly Maypure Indian ; aicataje, an ugly wo- 

 man. 



In Biscayan : maitetutendot, I love him, pro- 

 perly, I loving have him ; beguia, the eye, and 

 beguitsa, to see ; aitagana, toward the father ; 

 by adding tu, we form the verb aitaganatu, to 

 go toward the father ; ume-tasuna, soft and 

 infantile ingenuity ; wnequeria, disagreeable 

 childishness 



I will add to these examples some descriptive 

 compounds, which call to mind the infancy of 

 nations, and strike us equally in the American 



* The diminutive of woman (aica) or of Maypure Indian 

 is formed, by adding butke, the termination of cujuputke, 

 little : taje answers to the accio of the Italians. 



t The termination tasuna indicates a good quality ; queria 

 a bad one, and is derived from eria, illness (Guill. de Humb., 

 Basques, p. 40). 



