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8. -s. This element is in all probability a derivational suffix in 

 a fairly considerable number of words, as indicated particularly by 

 the fact of its fTequent occurrence after a consonant. Examples are : 



ple'^s mortar-stone fastened in ground (cf. verb-stem p!e- lie) 

 74.13; 120.17 



la^ps blanket (? cf. base lab- carry on shoulder) 98.14, 15, 19, 21 



p.'e^ns squirrel 



gums (adj.) blind 26.14 (? cf. gomha^F "^ rsibhit) 



hels moccasin 



Iclu'ls worm (? cf. verb-stem goH-, aorist Jc.'olol- dig) 



yols steel-head salmon ( ? cf . yola'' fox) 



&lZs moss 43.16; 44.1; 47.15 



hami^s sky 79.7 (cf. verb-prefix ham- up) 



hols (adj.) long 14.5; 15.12, 15 (? cf. da-halni'-xa [adv.] long time) 



Also some of the dissyllabic nouns in -s \vith repeated vowel listed 

 above (§ 86, 3) may belong to this set. 



A few other stray elements of a derivational aspect have been 

 found. Such are: 



-ax in pli'ijax fawn 13.11; 16.8; 17.1, 2 (cf. p.'i'yin deer) 

 -xi^ in homxi'' otter 13.5; 17.13; 154.13; 156.14; u'^xi seed-pouch; 

 M''pxV child 13.8, 13 (cf. Jiap'da his child 98.13 and ha^p- 

 incorporated in lid°-p'-Tc!emna'^s Children-maker 172.15) 

 pluralic -x- in lidpxda his children 16.3; 118.1, 14 

 -X- varies ^vith -s- in adjective Jidpsdi small; Tid'^pxi' Tiapsdi 

 little children 30.12 



A large number of dissjdlabic and polysyllabic nouns still remain 

 that are not capable of being grouped under any of the preceding 

 heads, and whose analysis is altogether obscure: 



ldxd^s^\o\il^.\■, 16.10; 17.10 



domxa" u Chinook salmon 



ylVaY red deer 



yiha'xam small skunk 



hixa^l moon 196.1 



Tc!a'nak!as basket cup (probably reduplicated and with deriva- 

 tive -s) 



§ 88. COMPOUNDS 



Of compounds in the narrower sense of the word there are very 

 few in Takelma. Outside of personal words in -Id'p'a, which we 

 have suspected of being such, there have been found : 

 iomt.'i'i old man 24.11, 12; 126.19 (cf. t!l^- male) 

 ¥a^^s'o'¥da girl who has had courses (cf. YaHd'p'a woman) 



iCf. -if above, §82. 

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