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Jio's'au getting older 



mahaH hig2S.l; 74.15; 146.3 



hus' wiped out, destroyed, used up 42.2; 140.19 



cZngood, beautiful 55.7; 58.7; 124.4; 146.6 



r-a hot 57.15; 186.25 



p'u^n rotten 140.21 



yo'fi alive ([?] yoY being + enclitic -hi) (128.16) 



and many others. A very large number, however, are provided with 

 derivative suffixes, some of which are characteristic of adjectives 

 per se,^ while others serve to convert nouns and pre-positive phrases 

 into adjectives. Some adjectival stems seem capable of being used 

 either with or without a suffix (cf. da-sga'xi and de-ts'IiiguY above, 

 § 107): 



mahaH and mahaHf big 

 al-gwa'si and al-gwa'siV yellow 



1. -{i)t\ Probably the most characteristic of all adjectival suifixes 



is -(i)f, all -f participles (see § 76) properly belonging here. 

 Non-participial examples are: 



al-gwa'siV yellow 



al-sgenhi'V black 92.19 



al-t!e's-\X little-eyed 94.3 



(?) M^nV half ([ ?] cf. han- through) 146.22; 154.9; 192.7 



i.'oU' one-horned 46.7; 47.7; 49.3. 



da^-molhiX red-eared 14.4; 15.12; 88.2; 96.13 



de-ts' lilgu'V sharp-pointed 126.18 



TclulsaX soft (food) (cf. fc.%Vs worm) 130.22 



'plala'Ywa-goyb'H' eife^ I am story-doctor (cf. goyo^ shaman) 



2. -al. Examples of adjectives with this suffix are: 



l-ts' !o'p' Si\ sharp-clawed 14.4; 86.3 (ci.de-ts'.'uguY sharp-pointed; 



for-p'-: -g-cL § 42, 1, 6) 

 m'fsil thin 



(?) deJial five ([ ?]= being in front ^) 150.19, 20; 182.21 

 s-in-hoTwa\ with holes in nose 166.13, 18; (56.9; 166.19; 176.7) 

 s-m-M's-^al big-nosed 25.1; 27.5, 13; 28.6 

 M'pal flat 



Imi'xsil how much, how many (used interrogatively and relatively) 

 100.8; 182.13 

 mixsi'lha numerous, in great numbers 92.28; 94.1 



1 A few adjectives in -am. (= -an) are distinctly nominal in apipearance; bila^m ha\tng nothing; xiWm 

 SICK (but also as noxin, dead person, ghost). It hardly seems possible to separate these from nouns like 

 hecla^m board; ts-.'ela^m hail. 



* Cf. American Anthropologist, n. s., vol. 9, p. 266. 



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