BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES TAKELMA 239 



dV'^-a'lda over his eyes, on his forehead (172.3) 

 no'tsladam neighboring us (= stem nots!- next door + noun- 

 characteristic -a-) (98.13) 



When used as local pre-positives with nouns, these local stems drop 

 their characteristic affixes, and thus appear in the same form in which 

 they are found in the verb (e. g., xoP'-gwelde between my legs), 

 except that lia-u- under as pre-positive adds an -a-: Jiawa- (e. g., 

 Tiawa-salde under my feet). The various pre-positives found pre- 

 fixed to nouns with possessive suffixes are : 



ha- in 



Jiawa- under 



da¥- over 



dl'^- above 



dd°- alongside 



al- to, at 



de-, da- in front of 



xd^- between, in middle of 



gwen- at nape, east of 



d%^- at rear end, west of 



dal- away from 



Tian- across (?) 



gel- facing 



gwel- under, down from 



The noun itself, as has already been seen, appears with its charac- 

 teristic, fgd earth, however, perhaps for some unknown phonetic 

 reason, does not retain its characteristic -u- before the possessive 

 suffixes Qia-fgdu in the country 33.7, but Jia-tgaP'de in my country 

 194.4) Examples of forms of the type liaHude in my hand are: 



lia-dl't'gwa in back of him, in his anus (incorporated dl^-) 94.11 



dd°--yawade ^ aside from me (literally, alongside my ribs) 



daV-s-alde on top of my feet 198.6; (cf. 44.8) 



hawa-luHide under my throat 



daV-s-ini'^da over his nose 144.11 



al-guxwida'in woV we have enough of it (literally, to-our-he^rts 



it-has-arrived) 128.1 

 lia-wilide m my \io\is& (64.2; 88,18; 120.14) 

 ha-ye^waxde in my returning (= when I return) (124.15) 

 dl-delga'nfgwa behind himself, at his own anus (72.10) 

 al-wd^'di'fgwan at one another (literally, to each other's bodies; 



wd^d-i- body) (96.22; 146.2; 190.19) 



^ Also dal-yawadS JiSiDE from me (with verb of throwing) (=literally, away from my ribs). 



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