Viewing page 15 of 137

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[preprinted]] 
PERMANENT ADDRESS:
[[line]]

Dr. Daniel G. Brinton,
Media, Penna.

PRESENT ADDRESS:
[[line]]

[[line for date]] 189 
[[/preprinted]]

[[underlined]] 2 [[/underlined]]

thrown into the absolute or intransitive (abstract) form by the prefix [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]].

I can, however, give no reason for assuming this monosyllabic root for the dissylable [[underlined]] Konza [[/underlined]], except that -z[[underlined]] a [[/underlined]] seems a very common termination to indefinite verbal forms, & hence is likely to be an inseparable suffix. 

As to [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]] I am not sure that it is the intransitive prefix, though by analogy we might think so. It recurs in the epithet of the supernatural in Hidatsa as a prefix [[underlined]] ma hopa [[/underlined]] ([[underlined]] ma [[/underlined]] = [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]] ). (Matthews, Hidatsa vocabulary) in which dialect it is not an intransitive        

Transcription Notes:
The Hidatsa are a Siouan people.