BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES COOS 



§ 63. Nominalizing Sufla.x Indicating Place, -ts 

 It is never suffixed to verbal stems. 



qa'ntcu where? 94.25 



365 



le'lsx medicine 



tsd'yux^ small 20. 5 



qaic small 128.29 



%c xqantcu'ims from where are you 



two ? (literally, your two selves' 



whence place) 126.14 

 xunn lHxeydwe'%ois we two have 



been after medicine (literally, 



our two selves' medicine-makers 



place) 126.15 

 tsdyuxwi' nis emfk'exEm Ie L.Hd 



on a small place is sticking out 



the land 44.26 

 qaid'ms Hx yv/'^'yu on (some) small 



place they two are stopping 6.3 



§ 64. Nominalizing SuflBx Indicating Locality, -ume 



. IS. It is added to nominal (or 



It signifies where the 

 adverbial) stems only. 

 ku^s south 



tse'tix' over here 



xwi'lux^ head 30.14 



xkukwi'sume hi! yet! he came ashore 

 on the south side (literally, 

 from where south is, he came 

 ashore) 



tseti'x'ume lo he^he^ ha^'wE here 

 on this side make a knot! (liter- 

 ally, where this is, on it, a knot 

 make) 92.7, 8 



xwiluxu'me where the head is 

 146.26 



§ 65. Terms of Relationship in -dtc {-ate) 



Terms of relationship appear with the suffix -dtG or -ate (see § 7), 

 except in the vocative case, where the stem alone is used. A few 

 nouns exhibit in the vocative case an entirely different stem, while 

 others occur in the vocative form only. 



The phenomenon so characteristic of many American and other 

 languages, whereby the different sexes use separate terms for the 

 purpose of denoting corresponding degrees of relationship, is not 

 found in Coos. This may in part be due to the fact that the language 

 does not differentiate in any respect whatsoever between the two sexes, 

 and that grammatical gender is a concept entirely unknown to the 

 Coos mind. On the other hand, Coos has one trait in common 



§§ 63-6K 



