BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — COOS 317 



ha'kat he crawled 32.12 xha'k'Uc crawlingly 32.10 



tka'lmUs he sinks it t^k'e'lmtxEm (a) deep place 84.24 



klxa'ye'es he is talking k'/xe'sm ye'es talk to me 

 to him 30.23 



pkak' grandfather 28.19 pkafkatc grandfather 30.6 



taha'Uk' quiver G6. 26 taha'Ukato into the quiver 116.19 



ax'l'axatc uncle axd'x' uncle 34.9 



k^ma'x' horn 86.25 oiki^md'xa it has a horn 88.7 



The only cases of consonantic assimilation that occur in Coos are 

 the changes of sonants into surds, under the influence of a following 

 surd. 



ya'has maggots 40.12 xya'has yapW tsa Id . . . maggots 



ate up his . . . (literally, mag- 

 go ted his ... ) 40.6 



Msk'^teyi'xumx he had it (the j9^«*'^' aftsem a cup give me 68.17 

 water) in a cup 128.25 



§ 14. SIMPLIFICATION OF DOUBLED CONSONANTS 



Doubled consonants are simplified in consequence of the tendency 

 to avoid the clustering of too many consonants. The process consists 

 in the simplification of a long (doubled) consonant, when followed by 

 another consonant. Owing to the fact that only I, m, n, and y appear 

 in doubled (long) quantities, they are the only consonants that are 

 affected by this law. 



mtlat he swam 30.7 mt'WqEm he swam (out) 100.16 



tdflats he was astonished tci'lts^xEm he was astonished 128. 



22.28 15 



hM'nap he went through 22. 11 Lhtnptso^'wat he took him through 



nmd'Tieaet it is (crowded) with xond'hentlto like a person 30.22, 23 



people 20.1 



§ 15. GRAMMATICAL PROCESSES 



All grammatical categories and syntactic relations in Coos are 

 expressed by means of one of the five following processes: 



(1) Prefixation. 



(2) Suffixation. 



(3) Reduplication. 



(4) Syntactic particles. 



(5) Phonetic changes. 



§f 14-15 



