Congressional Serial Set Volume 5825 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...anks-ontu-tea?lksonni (aflks, on). 22. tcidikS.... nani xa, "how can it be possible?" Nani or nctPni, when preceded by a pronoun ending in-xtiMn, expresses strong improbability; and in this case a similar idea is conveyed, xa here, "can," seemingly unnecessary after nani. 22. etax kike, "it makes no difference "=ettixktke. 23. Sti, "here." See Mi, "this." Compared, "this; that; here;" etc. ahin--ahi, 3d pi. of hu. 24. awixtuwiyfyaflktu-te, used where analogy would require amuebwwiyaflktu-te, as the objective fragment pronoun yanke or yank supersedes-yl; Mkuhini, neg. of kuhiyS-; de-h&d: perhaps h d=h&, "too." 25. Perhaps xySni, "but," should be supplied between kide and dust dedi. 26. An-he, peculiar use of the instrumental or locative (an) before the noun instead of before the verb, "with or on his horns." 29. PaxSxkana-k naxS, etc. Here PaxSxkana-di, the nominative, appears to be the proper form, as the subject of the verb, kdwa de, perhaps intended for kdwa deyS, "to send it his voice a little farther." 30. Taflkid(taflki). See ftkind-hid in lines 19, 20. kikiyoho, contracted from kikiyohi on (yohi). 31. kinx=kinhin before a A-sound; bang, past form of nS, the standing or moving ob. in the past; hldtek dWctotcte may be the kUdSska tcut-kana of line 15. 32. amixyS hadedi', used because they were going rapidly. Had they been walking at an ordinary gait, mixye aide (3d pi. of mixye dedi) must have been used. The woman was sitting on a buffalo in the middle of the stream when the four brothers saw her. This association of the buffalo with water occurs also in the tradition of the Ifike-sabe gens of the Omaha tribe. 37-38. dusix kudi, perhaps contr...