BOAS] HANDBOOK OP INDIAN LANGUAGES TAKEDMA 221 



daldaH may be very plausibly connected with aorist tJalatlal- from 

 tlalal-, non-aorist daHdal from daH- crack); while p'ahd^'^p' and 

 hobo^f may, though improbably, show Type 1 reduplication 

 (p'ab-d"'h- like p!ab-ah- chop). This latter type of reduplica- 

 tion seems, however, to be as good as absent in the noun (but cf . 

 sgwogwoW^ robin; meleHx burnt-down field 92.27 may be morpho- 

 logically A^erbal, as shown by its probably non-agentive -x). The 

 fullest type of reduplication, that found exemplified in the aorists 

 of Type 13 verbs, has not been met with in a single noun. 



2. JVoiin Derivation (§§ 87, 88) 



§ 87. DERIVATIVE SUFFIXES 



The number of derivative suffixes found in the noun, excluding 

 those more or less freely employed to form nominal derivatives from 

 the verb-stem, are remarkably few in number, and, for the most part, 

 limited in their range of application. This paucity of live word- 

 forming suffixes is, of course, clue to a great extent, to the large num- 

 ber of nominal stems in the language. The necessity of using such 

 suffixes is thus greatly reduced. The various derivational affixes found 

 in the Takelma noun will be listed below with illustrative examples. 



1. fia)-. This is the only derivational prefix, excluding of course 

 such considerably individualized elements as the body-part prefixes 

 of the verb, found in Takelma. It is employed to form the words 

 for the female relationships corresponding to elder brother and 



YOUNGER brother. 



wdxa his younger brother 54.1, 5 fawaxa his younger sister 55.2 

 wi-^obl my elder brother 46.10 wi-t'ohl my elder sister (55.14) 



2. -Id'p'aik!-). This suffix is found only in a number of nouns 

 denoting ranks or conditions of persons; hence it is not improbable 

 that it was originally a separate word meaning something like per- 

 son, people. That it is itself a stem, not a mere suffix, is shown by 

 its ability to undergo ablaut (for- le'p'i- see § 77). -k!- is added to it 

 in forms with possessive or plural affix. For example, homt.'iHd'p'a 

 178.7 male, husband are formed tllHa'p^ikHfV my husband 

 (142.7) and t!%Hd'p"ak!an husbands, men (130.1, 7). The fact that 

 the stem preceding -Id'p'a appears also as a separate word or with 

 other elements indicates that words containing -Id'p'a may be best 

 considered as compounds. 



§ 87 



