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moon is considered a “man ” but not “husbnnd” by tho Chaco 
tribes.) 
Wesi, cf. tlüose ; V. loes ; to change residence. 
Wet, et, bouse, place, position of any person, animal, tree or thing ; 
V . wet ; S . tsat ; T .sai; L.-M .tilla; e.g. fuá, fruit ; fuai-yuk, 
tree ; fualc-et, grove of algarroba. 
Welhkatine, ticlde ; V. fuiláj-thle ; S. of-sij ; cf. CH. ne-pat-ni ; 
V. ij-fuilaj ; L.-M. yim-pit-clii ; T. no-wi-gik, to scratch. 
We-thli, to dream ; V. fui-thlan ; cp. L.-M. wánmá-kyi, to be silent ; 
wanmeschi, to dream. 
We-tlilek, mili, mortal’ ; V. fue-tlilek. As in Vejoz and Quechua k added 
to the verb forms a substantive. 
W i-kit, pestle ; kit, instrument. 
Wikiu, village ; V. la-wukuo ; pl. of wuk, house. 
Wo, verbal partido ; wo-thle-yi, to ñamo, from tille, a ñame. 
Wo-wi, blow ; OH. ivosok ; V. fuoth, whistle, flute. 
Wo-yi, go for, fetch (cf. mai-yi) ; S. too-oi, mee ; V. tuki ; L.-M. ivaiyi. 
Wuk-ina, nortli ; compare ini-wuk (south), position designated by 
reversión of sy Hables. Sex is sometimes indicated in the same 
way, e.g. L.-M. kil-nawa, male ; kil-wana, female. 
Wu, wuk, covering, house, weeds. Many derivatives are formed from 
tliese or with initials m and p. 
Wita, verbal partióle, together, with, joined ; yu-wita, reside, live at 
or with ; yiki-wita, join, put together ; yapo-wiia, to cióse itself 
as a flower. 
Wuka, same as wita. Probably both these partióles are modifications 
of wet and wuk (house, place) ; tsea-iouka, stuck together. 
We, partido, hollow, bclly, centro ; ka-tse-we , tho lap ; lojse-kyowe, 
tho centro of the bow ; teo-we. inside, lióle, sockct, womb. 
We, intensive partióle ; CH. toj-we ; L.-M. tiye-pe, far ; CH. noj-we, 
all, exhausted. 
Wet : 1, a house ; 2, a wound ; cf. L.-M. nating-ma, house ; nating-wa, 
wound. 
Note. — T he fact tliat the lctters p, m, and w interdialectally are 
changed about and in some cases, as in Choroti (e.g. waso, paso, to 
crawl), are idéntica!, does not alter another great principie running 
through the Chaco group, viz. that w and m, w and p, and m and p, 
are used to distinguish niceties of meanings or contrasted ideas. In 
Lengua-Mascoy m and w are generally speaking feminine, and p mas- 
culino ; e.g. Mok, other woman ; kil-wana, a woman, female ; Pok, 
other man. The following example from the L.-M. will illustrate the 
diíferent shades of meanings by the use of initial letters : 
