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4. -itCf -tc SMALL, the diminutive suffix. 



medilite canoe small (from onedil canoe) 102.9 

 djelotc small storage-basket 158.13 



5. -yauw small, young. Used of trees. 



niLiukyauw young black oaks (from 7iihtuk black oak) 



6. -neivcm resembling. This has furnished many new names. 



qonewan worms like (rice, from its resemblance to white grubs) 

 seonnewan fire like 329.10 



T. -din PLACE. 



tsedin brush-place (a grave) 



8. -ta' PLACES. 



milla^Mnta its hands bases places (its wrists) 



9. -kilt ON. 



miskdt a landslide on (the name of a village) 

 denokut the sky (this us on) 286.12 



§ 22, Compounds 



There are five classes of compound nouns: 



(1) A few nouns stand in juxtaposition without a subordinating 

 possessive prefix. In a few cases the second noun seems to qualif}^ the 

 first: for example, Lumxan snake river (an eel). If these compounds 

 are introduced by a possessive prefix, the first noun qualifies the second: 

 for example, kixxakkin its net pole. 



(2) When the second of two nouns forming a compound has a pos- 

 sessive prefix, the first qualifies the second and is subordinate to it: 

 for example, dlndal^ mitctcivo flint its grandmother (a bird). 



(3) A few compounds which are true substantives have the first 

 element a noun, and the second an adjective qualifying it. An ex- 

 ample of such is yauhkal louse white (a grayback). 



(4) Compounds of nouns and qualifying adjectives are sometimes 

 introduced by possessive prefixes. While they serve as substantives, 

 they really qualify a subject understood: as in missa^niLtcivin its 

 mouth stinks, the bird having a stinking mouth (a buzzard). 



(5) Compounds similar to the last have for their last element words 

 indicating abundance or lack of the quality named b}^ the first part of 

 the compound. Examples are: mCixxalxxdleii its children haying 

 (doe), m'ltcdjeedln its mind lacking (an infant). 



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