244 BUKEAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



dola' gana'u in the old tree 24.1 



wa-iwi'H'a'ga^a^l to the female 15.14 



ga' ga'a'l for that reason 50.2; 124.6; 146.20, 21; 188.6; 194.11 



hixal wiHn-wi'^ ga^al ya'^ he goes every month (literally, month 



different-every at he-goes) 

 da'n gaxd"' between the rocks 

 dm gede" right at the falls 33.13 

 Yu¥ya'¥wa gede^ right by Yuk'ya'k'wa 188.17 



Postpositions may be freely used with nouns provided with a pos- 

 sessive suffix; e. g., ela't'Y gada'Y on my tongue; will'^ gana'u in 

 HIS HOUSE, of. 194.7. There is no ascertainable difference in significa- 

 tion between such phrases and the corresponding pre-positive forms, 

 daV-elade and lia-wiW^da. Sometimes a postposition takes in a 

 group of words, in which case it may be enclitically appended to the 

 first : 



IcHyifx gari^au ha-igina'xdd"' smoke in its- going- out ( = [hole] in 

 which smoke is to go out) 176.7 

 Although local phrases involving a postposition are always pro- 

 nounced as one phonetic unit, and the postpositions have become, 

 psychologically speaking, so obscured in etymology as to allow of 

 their being preceded by the demonstrative with which they are them- 

 selves compounded (cf . ga ga^a"! above) , they have enough individu- 

 ality to render them capable of being used- quasi-adverbially mthout 

 a preceding noun : 



gada'Y s-u^willfe^ I sat on him 



gada¥ ts!d^Fts!a'Fde^ I step on top of it (148.17) 



gidl^ galxgioa thereon eatmg ( = table) 



gidif^-Tii closer and closer (literally, right in back) 



gadd°' yeweya^F'^ he got even with him (literally, alongside he- 

 returned-having-him) 17.5 



mdl yaxa abaS dnl gede" salmon-spear-shaft only in-house, spear- 

 point thereby 28.7, 9 



gl^ gana^u I am inside 



ga'nau naga'^^ wiliYF he went through my house (literally, in 

 he-did my-house[for naga'^^ see § 691) cf. 78.5 



Other postpositions than those compounded with ga- are: 



da^d^l near (cf. da^ol- as pre-positive in da^oldide near me): 



wili'fV da^oH near my house 

 wa with (also as incorporated instrumental wa-, § 38) 25.5; 47.5 



1 Yuk'ya'k'wa gadawas said to be preferable, whence it seems possible that gcde isnot really equivalent 

 to ga THAT + de- in front, but is palatalized as adverb (see below, § 104) from gadaa. 



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