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active, transitive action. This suffix is changed to -anl whenever 

 added to stems having an tz-vowel (see § 7). 



T^pLpdiohe'nl I am making a hat {pLpafwis hat) 



'Q,y%xd' wExenl I am making a house {yixafioEX house) 



nlcwdf xaLarii I am making a bow (kwd'xciL bow) 



eHEqaHimja'tam you tell a story {lEqaHmya! tas story) 38. 13, 14 



Tihdtffith'n'h I tell a story {haftmt! story) 



wdndj tcinehe'nl that way he is thinking {tcin[e]- to think) 40.14, 15 



tsi Tc^ %G hewese'nl merely perhaps you two are lying {he'wes a lie) 



28.13, 14 

 %l ali'canl they play {a'lsc toy) 30.25 

 qawemse'iil I'nuwl he got mad very much 98.28 

 %l yd'lanl they were saying 76.17; ts hd'nis yd'la md those 



(who) talk Coos (literally, those hd'nis [Coos] talker-people) 



50.3 

 xwdndje'in that way she was doing it {xwdndj that way [modal]) 



164.6 



PRONOMINAL STTPFIXES (§§ 46-50) 

 § 46. Transitive Subject and Object Pronouns 



The Coos pronouns expressing both subject and object of a transi- 

 tive verb are, morphologically speaking, suffixes added to verbal 

 stems, or to stems that have been verbalized by means of some transi- 

 tive suffix. The transitive suffixes may, however, be omitted, as the 

 mere addition of these pronominal suffixes is sufficient to transform an 

 intransitive stem into a transitive verb. These suffixes occur in four 

 different forms, expressing the first, second, and third person as 

 subject, and the first and second persons as object, of the action, 

 regardless of number. 



First person subject — second person object (sing. , dual, plural) -dmi 

 Second person subject — first person object (sing., dual, plural) -d%s 

 Third person subject -u^ -U 

 Third person object — first, second, third person subject, no suffix. 



Since these suffixes are frequently preceded by the emphatic or 

 abbreviated forms of the personal pronouns (see §§ 18, 96), the pho- 

 netic unit expressing the combined pronouns may be said to consist of 

 the following elements: 



(1) Personal pronoun for the subject. 



(2) Personal pronoun for the object. 

 §46 



