BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 185 



m'gu yen yAX dulnigi'n ye qoyanaqe'tc when a person is through 

 with a story, he always says this {ha'gu story; yen there; yAX 

 thus; du- I- verbal prefixes [§ 17.3; § 18.4]; 7n\k] to say); ye 

 thus; qo-ya-na- [§ 15.6, 3; § 17.5]; qa to say; -tc[§ 19.1]) 



WA'nin cwuLixa'c edge turned up, he floated (wAn edge; in [?]; 

 c- reflexive prefix; wu- li- verbal prefixes [§ 15.4; § 18.5]; xac 

 stem) 



duqle'nAX ci tela yut qIanACxe'ntc dul'yeq gagaA'tin when his spirits 

 came to him, blood would flow out of his mouth {du- his; q!a 

 mouth; -rax from; ci blood; tela that; yut out of it; q!a 

 mouth; nA- [§ 17.5]; c- [?]; xen stem; -tc always [§ 19.1]; du- 

 his; yeq spirit; ga [?]; ga- [§ 17.4]; at to go [pi.]; -in suflfix) 



ituwu' qliOATi CAt'.i'q Nixd' nel gu'tni be courageous when Nixa' 

 comes in {i- thy; tu mind; -wu possessive sullix ; ^.'w^/i exhor- 

 tative [§ 22.3]; CA- reflexive; t!iq! stem [?]; nel into house; gut 

 to go; -n -i sufiixes [§ 20.2]) 



tdaye' daq gacl'tc AcgadJA'qen when it almost killed him, he would 

 run up (tdaye' almost; ddq up; ga- verbal prefix; cite to run; 

 ^cfor ('- reflexive [that is, he allowed himself to be killed, though 

 by something else]; ga- verbal prefix [§ 17.4]; dJAq to kill; -en 

 verbal sulfix) 



tan a aJca'wati auAX gadusku't liu auA'x yen wuqoxo'n he pounded 

 out a figure of a sea-lion, so that people would know he had 

 come ashore there {tan sea-lion ; a indefinite pronoun ; lia- wa- 

 [§ 15.2; § 18.2]; a indefinite pronoun; nAX around; ga- du- s- 

 [§ 17.4, 3; § 18.1]; hu to know; -t purpose [§ 20.1]; liu he; yen 

 there; wu- [§ 15.4]; qox to go by canoe) 



TiAS agacd'n when they marry {a- ga- verbal prefixes) 



4. -JC may perhaps be regarded as a distributive; at any rate, it indi- 

 cates that the action takes place many times, or continues for 

 some period. 



Lei At udJA'qx ts'.u yen uqo'xtc he kept coming in without having 



killed anything {zel not; At indefinite objective; dJAq to kill; 



ts.'u there) 



Jiu qo'a awe' Lei ute'x he, however, did not sleep (u- [§ 17.2]; -x) 



Lei gA'gi ugu'tx he never showed himself {lH not; gA'gi was [?]; 



w- verbal prefix [§ 17.2]; <7i^ stem; -^purpose [§ 20.1]; -x) 

 tcul AC ute'nx ac wudjiyl'ayu Acl't qle'watAn before he thought of 

 it, his nephew saw him and spoke to him {tcul before; ac him; 

 ten to see; ac his own; -yl possessive; ayu demonstrative; ACi't 

 to him; g- .'a- mouth [§ 14.1]; u'a- verbal suffix [§18.2]; tAn stem) 

 aga' tsa axe'x then only he ate {a- indefinite pronoun ; xa to eat ; -x) 

 Lei ulge'x Tce'Ladi not ever got big the sea-gull {u- I- verbal pre- 

 fixes [§ 17.2; § 18.4]; ^e stem; -x) 



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