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ING, llomm SILENCE, Lo CALM, pa'^pd^ TO DIVIDE, increased steadily. 

 For this reason I believe that many words of the miscellaneous class 

 conveyed sound-associations to the mind of the Chinook Indian. 



It will be noticed that verbs of motion and transitive verbs, except 

 such as are accompanied by decided noises, are almost absent from 

 the list of these words. 



In quite a number of cases these words seem to be rather adverbs 

 than attribute complements: 



co/ucau naxayi'lllc^Le she told him in a low voice 40.21 

 LUX nuLoftax'it it fell down broken 49.2 

 lIce'plIcep atcio'cgam it took it in its talons 137.15 



If I remember rightly the cadence of the spoken sentence, these words 

 must rather be considered as standing alone, the auxiliary verb -x being 

 omitted. 



LIST OF ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS 



(1) Actions and processes accompanied by noises. 



{wa a noise under water 217.15) 



uTiu' noise of an arrow striking a body 49.3 



QbE7nm, noise of wind 41.25) 



Jiomm, smell 67.2 



Old noise of an arrow breaking 49.4) 



Tie'U to laugh 12.22 



Jio'lio to cough 



pEmm noise of flying 72.22 



po to blow 66.25; po'po 129.20 



pa, jm, pti 175.3 



{(LeU noise of bursting 49.19, noise of bear spirit 217.14) 



tlsq^ to slap 40.25; tE'qtEq 26.8 



to' to to shake 194.1 



tumm noise of fire 45.16, noise of bear spirit 217.13 



tEmm noise of feet 133.17 



t!ak to break a piece out of something 



cix noise of rattles 22.5 



ceU noise of rattles on a blanket 61.22; dlldll rattling of breath 

 of one choking 150.7 



cafca to break, to wreck 198.7 



cdu low voice 162.11 ; cd'ucau 40.21 



cxx noise of flying birds 137.14 



tslEX (tclEX, tdux, tSEx) to break a piece of wood, antlers, etc., 

 with hands 60.7 ; to split wood 27.2 ; sinews 138.19 ; roots 95.14 

 (not used for splitting planks out of trees) ; to skin a bird 

 136.23; to bark a tree 164.16; ts'.E'xtslEX 45.19; nats.'s'x a piece 

 of flint flaked off 69.3 

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