In agreement with the genius of the Cherokee language the root form of the tribal name takes nominal or verbal prefixes according to its connection with the rest of the sentence, and is declined, or rather conjugated, as follows: Singular--first person, tsi-Tsa'lagi, I (am) a Cherokee; second person, hi-Tsa'lagi, thou art a Cherokee; third person, a-Tsa'lagi, he is a Cherokee. Dual--first person, âsti-Tsa'lagi, we two are Cherokee; second person, sti-Tsa'lagi, you two are Cherokee; third person, ani'-Tsa'lagi, they two are Cherokee. Plural--first person, atsi-Tsa'lagi, we (several) are Cherokee; second person, hitsi-Tsa'lagi, you (several) are Cherokee; third person, ani'-Tsa'lagi, they (several) are Cherokee. It will be noticed that the third person dual and plural are alike. Oyata'ge`ronoñ', etc.--The Iroquois (Mohawk) form is given by Hewitt as O-yata'-ge`ronoñ', of which the root is yata', cave, o is the assertive prefix, ge is the locative at, and ronoñ' is the tribal suffix, equivalent to (English) -ites or people. The word, which has several dialectic forms, signifies "inhabitants of the cave country," or "cave-country people," rather than "people who dwell in caves," as rendered by Schoolcraft. The same radix yata' occurs also in the Iroquois name for the opossum, which is a burrowing animal. As is well known, the Allegheny region is peculiarly a cave country, the caves having been used by the Indians for burial and shelter purposes, as is proved by numerous remains found in them. It is probable that the Iroquois simply translated the name (Chalaque) current in the South, as we find is the case in the West, where the principal plains tribes are known under translations of the same names in all the different languages. The Wyandot name for the Cherokee, Wataiyo-ronoñ', and their Catawba name, Mañterañ', both seem to refer to coming out of the ground, and may have been originally intended to convey the same idea of cave people.