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yariLawe dM e^qa^wenisa'ndya whenever something you -will get 

 mad at {qay-wenise' nl he got mad) 16.4 



Za" hauL eH'nuwanafya at that thing you shall pull i}'nuwi very) 



72.2 

 U wa'lioaland'ya they (would) make knives out of it {wa'hjoal knife) 



136.14, 15 



The a-vowels of this suffix very often change the ^-vowels of the 

 stem to which they are suffixed into an a (see § 7). 



xafnanafya he made him feel sorry for it {xd'nis sick) 42.18 

 f^jpLpa! wlsana! ya I made a hat out of it {pLpd'wis hat) 



Whenever suffixed to reduplicated stems, this suffix is changed to 

 -ondya. 



aqaJlqsond' ya la a' la he became afraid of his child {a'lqas fear) 



28.24, 25 



mitsma'tsond'ya Iex di'loi he became acquainted with him, the 



young man {rni'tsis wise) 116.1 

 qai^'qa'yond'ya he became afraid of it {in^qa'yaHs I am frightened 



[I fear]) 42.3 



PLTJRAL FORMATIONS (§§ 61-54) 

 § 51. General Remarks 



The question of plurality, as exhibited in the verbs, is, compara- 

 tively speaking, a complicated matter. The chief difficulty arises 

 from the fact that Coos accords a different treatment to transitive and 

 intransitive verbs, and that the phenomena connected with plural 

 formation are by no means of a uniform character. As in most other 

 American languages, the Coos intransitive verbs express plurality 

 of subject, while stems expressing transitive concepts distinguish 

 between actions relating to a singular object and those relating to 

 plural objects. 



As a rule, plurality of the subject of verbal ideas is not indicated. 

 One and the same stem is used in the singular and plural alike. There 

 are, however, a few verbal concepts that express such a plurality 

 by means of different stems. While this question ought to be more 

 properly treated under the heading "Vocabulary," it may neverthe- 

 less be found useful to give here a few examples of such different 

 stems. 



§51 



