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in harmony with the directive -o- that has changed to -a-, the 

 future is -o. 

 tc-i-n-l-af -x-o he will make him for me 70.6 

 After stems ending in a vowel the future is generally -ya. 

 m-xa-t-go'-ya you will come back 212.2 

 yam-xonenemd'-ya I shall show you 234.11 

 In Kathlamet the future has also a prefix, a- or al- (see § 17.3). 



§ 33. TERMINAL SUFFIX 



14. -e SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION. Tliis suffix is always terminal. Its 

 significance is not quite certain. 

 n-i-gd'-jJtcg-am-e finally he came up to the woods 166.8 

 It occurs very often \vith the meaning across. 



a-tc-d' -k-xone he carried her across on his shoulder 27.8 

 mc-i-gd'tct-am-a-e you will get across 51.6 



The Noun (§§ 34-43) 



§ 34. GENDER 



The pronominal parts of the noun have been discussed in § 18. 

 It is necessary to discuss here the gender of nouns. 



Nouns may be masculine, feminine, neuter, dual, or plural. It 

 would seem that originally these forms were used with terms having 

 natural gender, with sexless objects, and objects naturally dual and 

 plural. At present the use of these elements has come to be exceed- 

 ingly irregular, and it is almost impossible to lay down definite rules 

 regarding their use. 



In the following a summary of the use of gender and number will 

 be given. 



(1) Masculine and feminine respectively are terms designating 

 men and women. 



In all these terms the idea of indefiniteness of the individual, 

 corresponding to the indefinite article in English, may be expressed 

 by the neuter; like ikd'nax the chief, hkd'nax a chief. 



Masculine Feminine 



t'lcala man d^o'huil woman 



ikldsks boy okloshs girl 



iqloa'lipx youth oxo'tlau virgin 



e'])L'au widower d'i)L^au widow 



iq.'eyo'qxut old man oq.'oeyo'qxut old woman 



ela'etix' male slave ola'etix' female slave 



§§33,34 



