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The following table of consonantic changes will best make the matter 

 clear : 



On the whole, there is a distinct tendency to have all the consonants 

 of a word bear a consistent diminutive or augmentative coloring, 

 though absolute concord in this regard is by no means always 

 observed. In general it may be said that c and s sounds are most 

 easily varied in accordance with our rule. Final non-afFricative stops 

 seem incapable of change. It often happens that the normal form 

 of a word is itself partly diminutive in form owing to its meaning; in 

 such cases the form may be 'still further " diminutivized" if it is 

 desired to give the word a more than ordinarily diminutive force. 

 Thus -k!ac- in il-k!a'c-kac child is evidently a semi-diminutive 

 form of the stem-syllable -kac; little child , baby appears in more 

 pronouncedly diminutive form usillda'slcas (Wishram Texts 176.3). 



The following table of body-part nouns will serve as a set of exam- 

 ples of diminutive and augmentative forms. The diminutives would 

 naturally refer to the body-parts of a tiny child, the augmentatives 

 to those of an abnormally large being, as a giant. 



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