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§ 36. Connectives 



With the exception of fca/i and, connectives in Maidu are all 

 formed from the auxiUary verb a to be, by the addition of various 

 temporal, modal, and other suffixes. Very often the resulting form 

 is compounded with lean, which, while it may stand alone, is gen- 

 erally reduced to an enclitic. The more common of these con- 

 nectives are: 



a-dom, ado'nkan so, and so a-tse't, atse'tkan while, and 



a-mct but while 



a-mewcZom if not, and if not a-we'ten, awete'nkan then, 



a-mb'ni, amo'nikan then, and thereafter, and then 



then 



§37. Interjections 



There are quite a number of interjections in Maidu, the following 

 being those most commonly in use: 



Mi halloo ! M well ! all right 



sf look! well! liam an exclamation of rage, 



a exclamation of disgust practically equivalent to a 



ettu' stop! curse 



hmm exclamation of disgust 



VOCABULARY (§§ 38-41) 

 § 38. Classes of Stems 



In analyzing the vocabulary of the Maidu we may divide the 

 stems into three classes: 



(1) Those which admit of no suffixes, or only such as are neither 

 nominal nor verbal. 



(2) Those which take nominal suffixes. 



(3) Those which take verbal suffixes. 



The first group includes merely a few adverbs, interjections, and 

 a connective. The second comprises nouns, pronouns, and most 

 adjectives. The third takes in all verbs (with a few exceptions), 

 some adjectives, and the remainder of the connectives. This 

 grouping, which, on the whole, seems to be the most feasible, breaks 

 down in so far as it is possible, in some cases, to use participial 

 suflfixes with stems normally taking only nominal suffixes, and 

 also from the fact that there are cases where noun and verb are 

 formed from a single stem. The latter cases will be considered 



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