BOAS] HA2Q-DB00K OF INDIAN LANGUAGES— COOS 363 



In one instance this suffix has been changed to -awaL. 



qa'yaHs he is scared 126.1 In yu dlH qayawafwaL hardly any- 



thing can scare him (literally, 

 not very something scaring [to 

 him] 40.24; qayawafwaL a thing 

 that scares) 



"n&was* Composed of the distributive -ne^ (see § 37) and the 

 nominal -dwas. Hence it expresses an abstract concept that has a 

 distributive character. 



haqtsd' nlaxarie^'was Lowa'kats she was sitting between his teeth (lit- 

 erally, his teeth in the [mutual] between[-ness]) 102. 18 



sowe'l laxari&'waa between the fingers 108.21 



sqazLne^'was the space between the fingers, a crack {sqai' L^xEm, it 

 was sticking in a crack 62. 8) 



§ 60. Verbal Nouns in -onts, -si 



•dnts. This suffix indicates that something has become the object 

 of a certain action. It may best be rendered by what became the 

 OBJECT OF. Either it is suffixed to the verbal stem directlj^, or it is 

 preceded by the transitive suffixes -t, -ts (see § 26). 



il yd'lanlthey are talking 90. 16 la^ il yaaltb'tns they begin to talk 



about it (literally, this they 

 [have as their] object of speech) 



76.22 



i^h'i'tits I cut it A"UUsd'ms lahxla she commenced 



to cut her foot (literally, object 

 of cutting her foot [became] 

 80.21) 



Lo^- to eat 17.2 la^ Lou'ms % ha'h'itc la^ yixu'me 



this became his food while he 

 walked crawling (literally, that 

 object of eating [it became] 

 while crawling that one trav- 

 eled) 32.11 



d'tsa he gave it to him 34.10 atso'ms gift 188.26 



-si is used in the formation of nouns from verbal stems. The best 

 rendering that can be given for this suffix is the ruins, the rem- 

 nants OF. 



§60 



