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person was going to get well, he told them, and so it was {qa 

 person; qo- [§ 15.6]; n£x to be well; for the rest see last exam- 

 ple). The end of this sentence might be rendered as was 



THE TELLING OF THIS BY HIM, SO WAS THE FACT 



dd'sa gA'xdudjd'q qon yuAka'yantklc'^ what they were going to kill 

 was what they got {dd'sa what; qa- future [§ 15.5]; -x transi- 

 tional [§ 15.7]; du- verbal prefix [§ 17.3]; djdq to kill; qon [ ?]; 

 yu- demonstrative ; ^-indefinite pronoun; l*a- ya- verbal pre- 

 fixes [§ 15.2, 3]; nik stem) 



4. -yd. Another suffix similar to this is -ya, which is perhaps 

 identical with the continuative ya- treated of in § 15.3. This 

 is mainly used in clauses which in English would be subordi- 

 nated by means of a relative pronoun or adverb, and often 

 the participial suffix -i [§ 20.2] is employed in conjunction 

 with it. It would seem that the entire clause is turned into a 

 noun in this manner, and becomes the object of the principal 

 verb. Examples are as follows: 



yAX gale' yuqids ode' uduwaq.'d'siya far is the distance which the 

 cascade comes down (yAX like; gale' far; yu- demonstrative; 

 q.'ds cascade; ade' to it; u-du- wa-[§ 17.2, 3; § 18.2]) 



tdu ade' xaqlu'ya awe' ayA'x qot cu'waxix just the way they were 

 sleeping they were destroyed (tdu just; ade' at it; xaq^ to 

 sleep; ayA'x like it; ^of completely ; rM^-[§15.1]) 



dudjl'txawe yidadund'ya from him they knew how to fix [ a trap] 

 {duhim.; -(?_/ intensive [§7]; t to; .r from; awe demonstrative; 

 yidadund'ya they learned to fix) 



ade' JiAS IcAqladi'nutcya ade' akaollxe's! he put them in the place 

 where they were in the habit of hooking fish {ade' at it; Tias 

 they; liA to cause [?]; q'.At to catch [?]; -nutc habitually 

 [§ 19.2]; a- indefinite prefLx; la- o- ll-[^ 15.2; § 17.2; § 18.4]) 



ate'xya aosiJcu' when she slept, he knew (a- indefinite prefix; te 

 to sleep; -x -ya suffixes [§ 19.4]; a- indefinite prefix; o- si- 

 verbal prefixes [§ 17.2; § 18.1]; leu to know) 



Icaodit'.A'q! d'xo gudiya' it was hot weather from where he started 

 {ka- 0- di- verbal prefixes [§15.2; § 17.2; § 18.3]; t!aq! stem; 

 a- indefinite prefix; xo among; gu to go; -t purpose [§20.1]) 



zel JiAS d'wusku ade' yuyane'giya they did not know what to make 

 of it {Lei not; a- indefinite pronoun; wu- s-[§15.4; §18.1]; ade' 

 at it; yu- demonstrative; ya- verbal prefix [§ 15.3]; neJc to say) 



JiAS d'wawus! "gudA'x sa ye'dadunA'taya" they inquired, "From 

 where do they get this?" {gu where; dAX from; sa interrogative 

 particle; ye adverb; da- ^w-na- verbal prefixes [§ 14.4; §17.3,5]; 

 At to go [pi.]) 



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