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TcHwa'i gei V xa' ptagoashid' si he almost went flying through the 



doorway (^•/iw = A' /'iu doorway; ai the; gei mio; x^p probably 



means quickly; tagoa [?]; -dsi participle) 

 la dd'yinskia' gadjUugAn he hunted for it in vain (dd'yifi to hunt; 



rest uncertain) 

 gei l! dayi' nskiya' i lu when they found nothing there by 

 • hunting (gei into; dayin to hunt; -y perfect; ai the; lu when) 

 gado' I ge'tskiah I could in no way get them (gado' around [always 



used with this stem]; ^ I; get stem; -afi [?]) 



5. -goafi. A frequentative best translated by the English word 



ABOUT. 



V xeti't tdi'nlgoangas he went about hunting birds (xeti't birds; 



tclin to shoot or hunt; I perhaps euphonic; -ga to go; -s 



participle). See also 27.27 

 I' gd'yingoafiAS it was floating about (gdy-=gai- floating; -in on 



water; -as participle) 

 go'ngan dA'hat Ia na'ugoah qa'odi after he had lived along with 



his father for a while {gon man's father; -gah his own; dA' hat 



in company with; na to live; u auxiliary; -goan along or 



about; qa'odi after a while) 

 Ia la I'na-ugoan qa'odi after he had remained with his wife for a 



while {I'na to marry; -H auxiliary; qa'odi after a while) 



6. -f/I the completion of action; also, sometimes, continuation, in 



which case it probably means continuation to the end. 



la geilgldaga'i lu when she had finished {geij, to become ; -da aux- 

 iliary; ^ai the; iu when) 



la sugl'gai lu when he was through talking (su to talk ; gai the) 



la qingl'gwasi they looked at it for some time (la they [with -gw = 

 -go]; qih stem to look; -asi participle) 



xao (/" tadjugl'gahan the raven always sat upon it (xao [?]; g^ at 

 or upon; ta probably a classifier; dju stem [?]; -gafi continua- 

 tive; -an past inexperienced) 



7. -di a suffix that seems to define the action as having taken 



place at a certain particular place and moment. Its use is 

 not so pronounced in the Masset dialect as in Skidegate. 



q!al Igal Jc.'A'tdAla q.'as goxd'godies some small black-skinned per- 

 sons held burning pitchwood then (q.'al skins; Igal black; JcUt- 

 short or small; -dAla plural with adjectives [§39]; g'-'cts pitch- 

 wood; go- burning; xa inanimate pi.; -go to be somewhere; 

 -es participle) 



I A Lind'ndigAndi xati at the moment when she was striving to 

 disentangle it (ii- udth the hands [?]; nan probably stem; -di 

 seems to be determinate suffix used twice; -gAn continuative; 

 XAn thus, at that moment) 



44377— Bull. 40, pt 1—10 16 § 20 



