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7. -s or -st is properly used in forming infinitives and participles, 

 but by some speakers it "has come to be employed as the 

 equivalent of the past-temporal suffix. It indicates that 

 everything in the preceding clause or set of words is to be 

 taken as a unit, and so occasionally appears to have a 

 plural significance. It also has the force of aforesaid, and, 

 after a noun preceded by nAh, gives the indefinite article the 

 force of a definite. 



Ia la tdl'gas he shot it 



I A la qld'gadas he dried it 



nAh sgoa'na V qe'inas he saw one 



Lgd'xetgu Id'nas the Pebble-town people 



UAn Lgd'xetgu Idfna a Pebble-town person 



nAh la'oatawas one who was wliittling, or the whittler 



nA h sqadjd'sas the future brave man 



nAfl sqadjd'sa a future brave man 



nAn gaxd'gas the child, or one who was a child 



In the Masset dialect it generally concludes a subordinate clause. 

 V VL.'agid^els lu Nasto' gu ^aqle'dadjan when he became a chief, 

 his mother was drowned at Nasto {I'L.'agid chief; ^el to become 

 [§ 18.10]; -s participle; lu when; Nasto' name of an island; 

 gu at; ^aqle'dadj [?]; -an past inexperienced) 



§ 'J(i. IJnclassified Suffixes 



1. "K is suffixed to descriptive terms to form the names of instru- 



ments, manufactured and store articles. 



nldjd' hu mask (for derivation compare la at V ni'djahahwAnsu'ga 



he made an image of it, they say) 

 SLiand'hu that with which the hands are washed ( = soap) 



(sLia- with hands [§ 14.11]; ndh to play with or wash) 

 q.'aixitagd' hu round thing shaken ( = rattle) {qlai round-shaped 



object [§ 15.18]; xU to shake; gdh continually) 



2. -Al a suHix used in speaking condescendingly, as to a slave, or 



sometimes in a kindly manner, to one's equal. It is also em- 

 plo3^ed sarcastically, or in belittling one's self, out of courtesy. 



gana'n Tiao la su'uAldd'lgAn he spoke like that (as if speaking to 

 a slave) (gana'h like; Jiao that; su stem to speak; ddl [?]; 

 -gAfi continuative) 

 Jia'ashHen dAh gia'ga qa' gAnaA'ldas and yet yours will be safe 

 (Jia'oskHen and yet [= ^00 + connective sklien]; dAh your- gia 

 thing, or property; -ga possessive; qa'gAna stem to be safe; 

 -da auxiliary; -s participle) 

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