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2. Between nouns. The first noun takes the ending -Em^ and desig- 

 nates the kind of thing referred to, while the second noun 

 specifies the class. 



g'a'dEin, gan a wooden man 89.12 (a man belonging to the class 

 "wood") 



dawUsEm 16' oj? a stone ax 117.14 (an ax belonging to the class 

 "" stone") 



huxda'g-intgum (faxLcfa'd crow-grandchildren 10.15 (grandchil- 

 dren of the class "crow") 



a'lg'igam Tfi^Einsafn Tsimshian language 20.9 (speech of the 

 class " Tsimshian ") 



amg-a'g-tm Le'sEms sawbill ducks of Nass river 114,5 (sawbill 

 ducks of the kind [belonging to] Nass river) 



huira'm had^a'a-l'^ bad names 41.12 (names of the kind '"bad") 

 Tsimshian: 



g<y ijylEm ts.'al light-face 



g'a'mgEin dzi'us day-sun ZE 781^ 



ts.'a'hErii ye'is.'Esg the animal trilie 783*" 



md'sEiu an'o'n thumb of hand 792^" 



yets.'EsgEm gilhau'Ii the animals of the woods 

 , Adverbial. 



Iiada! gam a'lg'txs Txa'msEm Txa'msen spoke badly 38.11 



SEm-ho'in nu'ot he was truly dead 9.6 



wi-fe'sEin yo'o.rl'H he ate much 36.10 {yC/ovk^ is an intransitive 

 verb) 



ts'o'sg'tm mast he grew a little 175.8 



T(! uL-wt-ye' tgwn xdax't he was hungr^^ (g"oi»g") about 39.9 

 Tsimshian: 



dza'gEiti xsfox to be dead asleep 



ks-qd'gom a'lg'ix to speak first 



Ji's-qd' g(jm niAn-a'xlg he reaches up first 

 ■a. The connective -a is used in a number of cases in place of -Em. It 

 would seem that its use is determined largely by the particu- 

 lar qualifying term. Some of these seem to take -a regularly 

 in place of -Em. In Tsimshian this connective is -a; it 

 appears regularly after numerals. 



ama hwilp a good house 48.3 



wl-ama g'af very good man 203.7 



ama a'lg'txt he spoke well 45.6 



wl-ama hwa'ndet they sat down very well 83.4 



gwa'lgvHi txox' dry halibut 161.10 



he'ya elx fat of seal 161.12 



f'e'la elx oil of seal 47.2 



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