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tive -i'-. The strongly verbal coloring of the agentive in -^s is perhaps 

 best indicated by its employment as a final clause. Examples of 

 this use are: 



ha-i-kliyi'Vde^ al-xl'^^xbi^s I came to see you Oiterally, as one- 



seeing-you) 

 me^-gini'^V al-xl'^^xi^s he came to see me 



Tioida'^s di me^-ginigaH' did you come to dance? (i. e., as dancer) 

 a'nl^ me^-gini'Tc'de^ lo^^s' I did not come to play, as player 31.6 

 (cf. § 74 for another method of expressing this idea) 



§ 81. Nouns of Agency in -si^, -sa<i 



These, as already observed, are less distinctly verbal in force than 

 the preceding. Some verbs have agentives in both -^s and -sd^; e. g., 

 lie^la''s and lielsd'^ singer. Not infrequently there is a distinct feel- 

 ing of disparagement in a -saf^- agentive as compared with one in -%• 

 e. g., Tiog'^a'^s good runner, but Tio'Tc'sd'^ one who always runs 

 (because of fear). Both of these suffixes are added directly to the 

 stem without connecting vowel. If stressed, they have the falling 

 accent. -sd°' is the regular agentive ending of Class II intransitives; 

 -y- is or is not retained before it under the same conditions as in 

 the case of the participial -f (see § 76). 



Further examples of agentives in -s^* and -sd'^ are : 



i-he^gwa'¥'^s¥ worker 



da-losi liar (but non-disparaging Zo"^s player) 



y/i^Q-li ( = ii'«^s--s-i') Icleme^n I make him laugh (literally, laugher) 

 (al-fwd°^p'fwa'p'sV blinker 

 1 al-t'wd°'pt'wa'psQp- 



a;a'^-^o^sa'^ go-between (settler of feud) 178.11 



dd^-p.'iyawisa,'^ one going, dancing by side of fire ( = medicine- 

 man) 



^ms"a'* { = yiins'-s'd'°') dreamer ( = medicme-man) 



wais2u^ big sleeper 



esewsa^ big sneezer 



se'nsansQ,^ one knowing how to whoop 



sana'p'sa^ one knowing how to fight 



s'a's'ansdi^ one always standing 



s'u'^alssi^ one always sitting 



notsladam yu^sh^ e^MV we are neighbors (literally, neighboring- 

 to-us being [ stem yu-] we-are) 



tlohaga'ssi^ ( = -a's-sa") elf you are always lying like dead 



A few nouns in -sl^, in which an agentive meaning can not well 

 be detected, nevertheless doubtless belong here: lo^sV plaything 

 3045°— Bull. 40, pt 2— 12 14 §81 



