Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 430 pages of information about Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes.

Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 430 pages of information about Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes.

(57) (58) (59) Gestures only.

(60) sa’nagad
it is bad (hard)

  (61) mi epi’tading
       so it is thick (so thick is it)

  (62) Gesture only.

  (63) mi dash mi’nawa minik’
       that again much (that much again)

  (64) nibi’ gon ga’ie
       water snow too (water and snow)

  (65) nimidjik a’wanag
       my mittens

  (66) a’pitchi
       very much

  (67) nindas’san gaie
       my trowsers two

  (68) Gestures only.

  (69) nin gi’katch ja’igwa
       I feel cold already

  (70) aw sa kiwe[n]’si
       the old man

  (71) nawatch’ win’
       more yet he

  (72) Gesture only.

  (73) nind aie’kos ja’igwa
       I am tired already

  (74) Gesture only.

  (75) Sa’badis
       John Baptist

  (76) memesh’kwat kaki’na
       by turns all

  (77) Gesture only.

  (78) wi’ka ga’ishkwanawo’kweg
       late in the afternoon

  (79) mi gibakwewangid
       now it is cut loose

  (80) haw!
       well! (ho!)

  (81) mama’we
       together

  (82) Gesture only.

  (83) a’gimag
       snowshoes

  (84) ma’djishka
       it is moving

  (85)-(87) Gestures only.

  (88) aga’wa ma’djishkca
       scarcely it moves (very little)

  (89) no’din
       wind

(90) Gesture only.

(91) Sa’badis
John Baptist

(92) migiss’kaneyab
hook-line

(93) (94) oginisswa’biginan
he twisted three cords together

(95)-(98) Gestures only.

(99) oginisso’bidonan (i.e., migaskanan)
he tied together three (i.e., hooks)

(100) Gesture only.

(101) ogiaba’gidonan dash
he threw it out

  (102) Gesture only.

  (103) owikobi’donan
        he wants to draw it in

  (104) kawes’sa
        in vain ("no go”)

  (105)-(108) Gestures only.

  (109) ka’win sagakwidis’sinon
       (not) it don’t catch on the rock-bottom

  (110) mi’nawa—­mo’jag
       again—­often (repeatedly)

  (111) The same as No. 104.

  (112) The same as No. 80.

  (113) Gesture only.

  (114) e’nigok
        vigorously

  (115) ja’igwa ona’kwishi
        already evening

  (116) esh’kam kis’sina
        more cold (getting colder)

  (117) The same as No. 70.

  (118) mi ja’igwa gianiji’tang
        already he has given up

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