IV. Vocabulary
The following vocabulary contains a selection of the more important stem-words, prefixes, and suffixes, together with examples showing the use of these stems. So far as possible, these examples have been taken from the texts. The Kutenai-English vocabulary has been arranged in such order that sounds which are closely related stand near together. The order selected is, vowels, labials, dentals, palatals, velars, laterals. This results in the following order of sounds:
| a | y | p | t | k | ł | |||||||
| ι, | i | w | p! | t! | k! | |||||||
| o, | u, | υ | h | m | s | q | ||||||
| ts | q! | |||||||||||
| ts! | x | |||||||||||
| n | ||||||||||||
The long lists of nouns beginning with aₐʽk- have been placed together. I have embodied in this list a long list of nouns collected by Dr. Chamberlain, which I have not checked. I have kept these separate, because it is impossible to distinguish between aₐʽk-, aₐʽk!-, aₐʽq-, aₐʽq!-.
In the verbal forms I have generally given the stem without ending and without prefix. This is indicated by hyphens at the beginning and at the end of the word. Prefixes have been marked by a following hyphen and the abbreviation pr., although they may also take verbal prefixes. Suffixes have been marked by a preceding hyphen and the abbreviation suff. References are to page and line of the preceding texts; 256.161, for instance, means p. 256, line 161. Words marked Kel. were obtained from a young Lower Kutenai named James Keluwat; those marked Aitken were collected by Mr. Robert T. Aitken, who accompanied me part of the time I spent among the Kutenai.
Kutenai-English
- a· oh!
- a- pr. out of. (See an-, ak-)
- -a- verbal stem 256.182
- -ai- > -as+n (see -as- two)
- (nʼ)ao·′k!ᵘe· the one, the other 64.120. (See ok!ᵘ-)
- -ay- to steal, to cheat 38.8; 244.7
