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-^alEvtckix fire 

 -gaL fish-weir 

 -lalx camass 

 -tcala grindstone 

 -mala marrow, kernel 

 -'pul night, darkness 

 -md'p plank 

 -gd'we raspberry 

 -mojpa rushes 

 Neuter are, for instance, 

 -tSE'xtsEX gravel, thorn 

 -quld'^ula egg 

 -jpaa nape 

 -list tail of fish 

 -^wit leg 

 -j)C foot 



-gu'nkxun salal-berry 



-'slcL sinew 



-tdn stump, foot of tree 



-^d'lax sun 



-e'xatk trail 



-mo' tan twine of willow-bark 



- pcam piece of twine 



-tcd'nix wedge 



-pix well 



-goag blanket 

 -^a'tcau grease 

 -shuic mat bag 

 -to milk, breast 

 -tcuq^ water 

 -Tcckul' pitch wood 



-gLg armor 

 The number of these words that appear only in the neuter gender 

 is so small that we may almost suspect that the neuter was until 

 recently indefinite and used to indicate both indefinite singular and 

 plural. 



35. DUAL AND PLURAL 



(1) Nouns that are naturally dual are: 

 clcucJcu'c testicles 

 sxost eyes, face 

 ckuTkulo' L spear 

 CEmtk spit for roasting 

 CE'qxo double-pointed arrow 

 cpd'ix blanket made of two 



deer-skins 

 ctdd'maq castorium 

 c^dld'l ground-hog blanket, 



double-barreled 



csgoala'la 



gun 

 cikldik double ball for game 

 ci'lxatct bed platform on sides 



of house 

 sxutso'osiq bed platform in 



front and rear of house 

 SLan bowstring 

 CLd'nist two-stranded twine 



made of two skins 



There are other words that are always dual, for the form of which 

 no reason can be given, as: 



ckd'lcole eel ckaqE'l dentalia of the length 



CEnqetqe't hawk of 40 to a fathom 



SE'ntEptEp shrew cii'q half-fathom 



SEq.'alolo butterfly c^e'caTi fern-root (pi. ogue'can) 



(2) Nouns that are naturally plural are: 

 tqamild'lEq sand Hol house ( = dwelling of sev- 



tE'psd grass eral families) 



tlcte'ma property tJcsmdm ashes 



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