-- _tennah abbay_

Mountain -- _lot, loop_

Night -- _sin oar_

No -- _pay neay'_

Noon -- _dahjis_

Nose -- _moh_

Old -- _din grah_

One -- _nahnaw_

People -- _my_

Plain -- _barrow_

Pond -- _tebbahov_

Poison -- _chingrah_

Quiver -- _lock_

Rage -- _roh_

Rain -- _mahny_

Rat -- _hay loy_

Rice -- _bah_

River -- _tayhoo_

Season -- _moosin_

Sing -- _jeoolah_

Sister -- _kaynah_

" (elder) -- _taynah kaynah_

" (younger) -- _mennang kaynah_

Sky -- _sooey_

Sleep -- _bet bet_

Slumber -- _n' tahk_

Snake -- _teegee_

Sorcerer -- _ahlah_

Spirit -- _ghenigh nee_

" (Evil) -- _ahtoo_

Star -- _pearloy_

Storm -- _poss_

Sun -- _mahjis_

Thunder -- _nghoo_

Thunder-bolt -- _nahkoo_

Tiger -- _mah moot_, _mah noos_

Tobacco -- _bahkoo_

Tree -- _jehoo oo_

Two -- _nahr_

Valley -- _wawk_

Water -- _tayhoo_

" for drinking -- " _engot_

Wedding -- _ba' kaynah_

Wife -- _kay el_

Wild boar -- _loo_

Will, wish, want -- _engot_

Wind -- _poy_

Woman -- _knah_, _caredawl_

Yes -- _aye ay._[12]

* * * * *

This poor language that seems to be composed of short coughs does not
even lose its roughness in song, if I may so term the musical (?) sounds
that proceed from the Sakais' mouths, because real songs they have none.
They are accustomed, however, to improvise something of the sort in
which they always allude to facts of the day but as there is nobody to
collect these fragments of extemporaneous ballads they disappear from
the world of memori