BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES COOS 335 



kwa Jctoi'nis p^ci Ie dl'lol like tip^ci't I blow it away 



(a) feather blew away the 



young man 26.21 

 gd^s dlH hofwl everything nha/ioUs I grow it 



grew up 9.3, 4 

 x'pl Ie yixafwEx it burned x'pi'tsi debris 58.19 



down, the house 68.12, 13 

 witcwehe'Hdh la d'la it took waha'Hcas sickness 



sick, his child 42.17 

 ^pi'ctdi hariL you will get ^^'c^c^^s^e^he warmed himself 32.8 



warm 100.27 



In a few instances verbs having this suffix were rendered by the 

 passive voice, which may have been due to the fact that my informant 

 could not express in English the intransitive neutral idea implied in 

 the suffix. 



ofy^i hd'k.'Hl xqa'wax indeed, T^hd'klHits I draw it up 



he was drawn up from 



above 98.2 

 ma^'^xa'hl u xwi'lux^ was mau'xat he chewed him up 68.10 



chewed up his head 124.3 

 klu'^wl Ie hu^'m'hs was lost klu'^wit he lost it 



the woman 54. 19 



SEMI-TEMPORAL SUFFIXES (§§ 32-36) 

 § 32. Inchoative 'live 



-live indicates the commencement of an action, and is suffixed to 

 verbal stems expressing active or transitive ideas. If the stem to 

 which it is to be suffixed does not express such an idea, it is preceded 

 by the verbal -enl (§ 45), but never by -t or -ts. It may also be pre- 

 ceded by the distributive -anl (see § 37). The verbal stem must always 

 be preceded by the prefix qa (see § 19). 



a'yu qatbvfi'we indeed (she) begins to eat 24.11 



tm hanL qac^alctl'we now (he) will begin to work 26.18 



qalnl'we (he) commenced to hunt 106.16 



%l qaskweydnl'we they begin to talk (among themselves) 66.21 



qat(fLnehenl'we (he) began to think 20.7 



qax'intetdnl'we (he) began to jump about 102.15 



qak'eldnl'we ii men began to shout at each other, the people 



(literally, mutually) 24.22 

 qameldnl'we (he) began to swim around 176.16 



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