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A number of words take the ending -ma with connective vowel. 

 Examples of the connective vowel -o- are: 



Singular Plural 



e'-nemckc e-nemckcb'ma 



c'ola'P 



feinale 



ground-hog 



blanket 

 baton 

 rock 

 skin 



grandson ! 

 prairie 



tlola'Voma 



i-q!alq!ald'ma 



t-qEnakco'ma 



e-^co'ma 



qd'coma 



t E-m^a' emay oma 



i-q!d'lq!al 

 o-qo'nakc 

 c-H'c 

 qdc 



tE-mfa'ema 



The last of these seems to be a double plural, the stem being proba- 

 bly -TYi^a. 



Another series of words take -e- as connective vowel, sometimes 

 -we- or -oe-: 



Singular Plural 



In at least one of these words the origin of the -e is reducible to a 

 probable fuller form of the word. The stem of the word house is 

 -quLe in Kathlamet, and would naturally form the plural tquLema, 

 which, in Lower Chinook, would take the form HoLe'raa. 



(3) A considerable number of words have no plural suffix what- 

 ever, ])ut differ only in the pronoun, or may even have the same 



I See above. 



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