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ITiks- a' di people of the island an-qa'-wo town's man ( = chief) 

 Kiks (a Tlingit clan) 



Other compounds' are: 



Oo'na-na foreign tribe (the in- tslu-tU't another night ( = morn- 

 land Athapascan) ing) 



Dekl'-na far-out tribe (the 

 Haida) 



Nouns formed from' clauses also occur: 



wu-G-ta-cd'-yt'\va2LVV\edLCO\\p\e. {Seewu-[^ 15.4]; <?- reflexive [§ 11]; 

 ta probably = <^7r/ [§ 11.1]; ca to marry; yt [§ 20.2] 



yu-t!aq!d'-ye-t mortar {yu- that [ § 12] ; t.'aq.'d to pound ; -ye [§ 20. 2] ; 

 -t purposive suffix [§ 20.1]) 



to-ux-si-yet whistle (/r5 into; u.r to blow; si[1\^ ye[^ 20.2]; -t[^ 20.1]) 



YaJd'^-kalasegA'Jii'^ canoe-resting-place (a place name) {ydl''^ canoe; 

 ha-, la-, se- verbal prefixes [§ 15.2; § IS.l, 1]; gA stem [?]) 



KAt-nAq-tlii, white-rock-on-top-of-another (Ring island) (?) 



Yu' q! a-kA' nAX- At-yadugu' q point he threw something across {yu- 

 demonstrative;' q.'a a point; hA'uAx post-position probably com- 

 pounded of ^.4 ON, and^M.rNEAR; ^^^thing; ya-,du-[^ 15.3; § 17.3] 

 verbal prefixes; guq to throw) 



yu-AC-iga' -wusuwu' -At the thing that helped him {yti- demonstra- 

 tive; ^c personal pronoun of third person; ga iov\ wu- vevhaX 

 prefix; su stem; -wu infinitive or possessive suffix) 



Ce'nyak.'^'^-Ldx moldy-corner (of salmon), (a personal name) {ce'nya 

 corner; k!'^ probably diminutive suffix; Ldx moldy) 



Adjectives, except numerals, follow the noun qualified. 



§7. Infensfre Snjjft.r 



When special attention is to be paid to anything, an intensive suffix, 

 'tc, is employed. Thus Lingt'ttc is the intensive form of Lingi't 

 people; KtksAdi'tc, the emphatic form of the name of the clan KtksA'dt; 

 qawage'tc, the emphatic form of qawd'q eyes; uhd'ntc, the emphatic 

 form of Tihafn {we)\ and LelA'tc never, the emphatic form of the nega- 

 tive particle lU not. 



§8. Diniinutive Suffix 



Smallness is indicated by suffixing -k/° or -^Z"; as, 



xixtc/t'k/'' little frog (from Atk/A'tsk!" a small boy (this 



xtxtc! frog) always takes the diminutive) 



dk!" little lake (from d lake) duyA'tk!^' her little child 



§§ 7, 8 



