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dAn go' nga A'ldjiwai your slave-father (^^ /I your ;^o/i man's father; 



-ga possessive; djiw=dju he is of that sort; ai the) 

 dAh na'tga A'ldjiwai y OUT slave-nephew {dAfi your; nat nephew; 



-^a possessive ; A'ldjiwai [?^s Viho\e\) 



3. -aatit astonishment or wonder. 



gAtn gua la gei gi'na k'.udju's l! qihgd' naani I wonder that they 

 do not see the object sticking into him (gAm not; gua inter- 

 rogative; gei into; gi'na something; k.'u- classifier [§ 15.15]; 

 dju it was of that sort; -s participle; qiil stem to see; -gdh 

 continuative) 



glsi'sdo hao l! waga'ani I wonder whence the people came who 

 did this (glsi'sdo whence [contains stA from and o general 

 demonstrative]; hao general demonstrative; wa stem to do; 

 -ga auxiliary) 



4. -algtii appears to be identical in meaning with the above. 



a' saga esi'n l! qia'gaalgin I wonder if I slept here (a'sa this place; 



-ga in; esi'n also; l! I [literally they], often used for first 

 person singular or plural; q'.a'ga stem to sleep) 

 wa Lgu gi'na ge'ida I tagasd'algin what a small thing I am going 



to eat! (wa that [thing]; Lgu how or what; gi'na thing; ge'ida 



it is so or it is like; 11; ta stem to eat; -gasa probably -qasa 



about to [§ 23.6]) 

 st!ao Jmo gawaalgin I wonder if you have become witches (st.'ao 



witches; hao those; gawa stem) 



5. fla'ogo this is rather a particle than a suffix, but is usually 



placed after the verb. It may be best defined as a sort of 

 dubitative, though its use is very varied. Sometimes its 

 meaning is conditional. 



n-n-n hit.'AgA'n Ld'sta I'djins at m'staia da'ogo isgwd'nxAh 

 probably it is because she has been doing the same thing again 

 (n-n-n exclamation; hit.'AgA'n then; Ld'sta [?]; idjins it is 

 [including stem, continuative, and participle]; o^with; ^sstem; 

 -gwan moving about [§ 20.5]; -xaTi continuative [§ 24.1]) 



hadjadi'a gasi'nLlao di taigd'sa da'ogo alas! I wonder what is 

 going to become of me (hadjadi'a alas! gasi'nLlao what! dl 

 me; taigd'sa contains the infallible future [§ 23.5]) 



V i'ndaxuai gut gidjigi'da da'ogo la LdA'nLgaL.'xas lo! when he 

 pulled him out of the water, he only held together by the 

 joints (i'ndaxuai the joints; gut together; gidji to hold; gi [?]; 

 -da causative; l- by handling [§ 14.26]; dAn- pulling [§ 14.4]; 

 L- classifier [§ 15.20]; ga stem; -L.'xa toward [§ 22.10]; -s par- 

 ticiple) 



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