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Orna, efface, blot out ; V. fuome ; S. a-wom-ha-chi ; L.-M. más-che-yi, 
to clie, cease ; CH. orne, extinct ; V. yom ; S. yimák ; T. om. 
Opale, hiccough ; V. yople ; L.-M. yabeschi. 
Opihi, crouch ; V. y-upen-cha ; CH. opi-thle, dismount ; V. y-upát, 
rest. 
Ose, run, quickness of movement ; ya-kai-tsi-hi, make liaste ; o-ká-se, 
chase ; otse ; V. stun, be startled. 
Ose, otse, dress, gct into clothcs. 
Ot, ehcst ; ota-le, licart. 
Ot, put. See ait. 
Ote, set fire to ; yate, to buril ; fuat, fire ; i-yata, lamp ; L.-M. mit, 
burn ; wit, ( watneyi ) set fire to ; V. wun. The two great roots 
for “ fire ” are na and ta (Q. ni-na ; G. ta-ta ) and give the Índex 
to the verbs connected with fire. For light and fuel, see le ( thlet ). 
O-te-he, small-pox (o prefix, te, lióle, pitted ; he, reflexive) ; V. toi-tlüe 
(L.-M. nel-yiphe, i.e. our pimples). 
Ote-wita, wrap up ; (ote, put ; wita :, together). 
O-wi-te, red paint made from seeds of anotta ( Bixa orellana) ; G. urucú ; 
Q. achiote ; V. wai-taj ; S. woi-taj ; L.-M. yate-me ; T. (?) rnapole. 
O-wu-se, hawk ; V. hu-tsáj ; S. shu-tsaj. 
U 
U, used as prefix to nouns in the tliird person, u-we, ant-hill, and before 
verbs with initial letter w. 
U, all important roots of u are preceded by a consonant, see yu, ivu 
tu, nu, etc. 
XI. The Conson ants H, J 
II-e, the consonant h is to the vowcl e, what to a great extent the y is 
to the vowel i ; and just as i (pref. lst and 3rd pers.) may beconie e, 
e.g. i-ka and e-ka, his, liers, so the y and h change about in a similar 
manner, e.g. ahi-tek or ayi-tek, head ; a-liame or a-yame, reach ; 
hi-ne or yi-ne, father, man ; ho-met or yo-met, come ; i-lia-piya 
or i-ya-piya, to raise up. 
H, the h is used with all the partióles of the singular both with nouns 
and verbs, e.g. hi-tipot, his handkerchief ; he-waha, he cuts, 
divides. In Choro ti as with Vejoz tho aspírate is inuoh softor (han 
in Suliin or Lcngua-Mascoy, especially the initial h. In Vejoz 
the medial h is nasal ; in Choroti it is pronounced with a jerk and 
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