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the difference in vowel nor the use of different consonants can be 

 explained. The same difficulty is met with in di^nik ! a^n i stretched 

 IT OUT (62.1) and hd'^-dinl'HWn i hung them on line (59.9). In 

 some cases a difference of suffix is associated with a difference 

 of direction of verbal action, transitive and intransitive. Thus we 

 have : 



al-ts!ayaga'^n I wash him (64.5): dl-ts!aydY>'de^ I wash myself 



(not reflexive in form) 

 p.'alaga'^n I relate a myth to him: 'plala'-p'de^ 1 relate a myth 

 tslayama'^n I hide it (124.23): tsIaydT^'de^ 1 hide 



The various petrified suffixes found will be listed wdth examples 



under each. 



1. -b-. There seem to be two quite distinct -h- suffixes, one charac- 

 teristic of transitives, the other of a certain group of intransi- 

 tives. Examples of transitive -h- are : 



fgeyeha'^n I roll it (base fgey-), with secondarily intransitive 



derivative : 

 al-fgeya^\)x it is round (literally, it rolls) 

 Tie^^-sgaya'^xde^ I lie down (derived, like al-fgeya'T^x, from some 



such transitive as *lie^^-sgayaha'^n I lay it down flat, that, 



however, does not happen to occur in the material at hand) 

 de^-l-gene'p'gwa he lay curled up like dog (also -geneuVwa) 

 galaha'^n I t^\'ist it by rolling (cf . gelg- twirl fire-drill) 

 sgll^tx warm your back ! (seems to imply *sgl^lha'n I shall warm 



liis back) (25.8, 9) 



All intransitives in -b- (-p'-), whether or not secondarily derived 

 from transitives, belong to that class of verbs to be later dis- 

 cussed as Intransitive Verbs, Class II. Among those \vith 

 . primarily intransitive -p'- are : 



al-ts!aydp'de^ I washed my face 



ts.'aydTp'de^ I hid 



flala'^'de^ I tell a myth 



s'in-xinlxan-p'de^ I sniff (cf. xln mucus) 



s-as-a'nliaTp'de^ I stand around (not trying to help anyone) (cf 



S'a's-anfe^ I shall stand) 

 s'in-wi'll^Va'p'de^ I blow my nose 

 &a'^-s-o''Wd"^fc'ap'(Ze^ I jump up (48.15; 49.1) 



A number of Class II intransitive verbs show a suffixed -p'- in all 

 forms but the aorist. It is not possible to say whether this 

 -p'- is morphologically identical with the -p^- of verbs like 



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