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(2) When the transitive suffixes, other than -ts, are added to it, its 

 significance is clearly verbal. 



yi'kwauL xtcitc tyltsUsl'wat I wonder what I shall do with it 86.8 

 yi'kwa7iL xtcttc ximn ^Itsitsofrm I wonder what we two shall do 



with you, how we two shall keep you 24.3, 4 

 xtdh'tcu ^UsUo'^' wat tl'ye wix'l'lis how did you get that your 



food? 64.17,18 

 In kwee'myem xtcttc U %'tsetu no one knew what hecame of them 



52.1, 2 



§ 114. Verbs as, Adjectives 



The use of verbs as adjectives is confined to a few sporadic instances. 

 These verbs are, as a rule, intransitive, although they occur with the 

 transitive suffix ~t. (See also § 117.) 



Ikwi'lU ha^ yixu'me she travels blazing (red-hot) (IkwU- to burn) 



24.18, 19 

 Ikwi'lU tsaxa'lisEtc la^ lo'qHits by means of red-hot pebbles she 



boiled it 102.6 



Whether the phrases paofhlt Ie yixd'wEx the house is full, 

 g'img'i'mU it is raining, belong here, is a problem which is hard 

 to decide, although the psychological relation between these examples 

 and those quoted above is not inconceivable. 



§ 115. Nouns as Qualifiers 

 Substantives are often used to qualify other nouns. In such cases 

 the qualifying noun always precedes the qualified substantive, and 

 both nouns retain their nominal character. 



dl'loL a'la a young boy (literally, a young male child) 60.2 

 hu^7n%k' ma Lowa'kats there lived an old woman (literally, an old 



female being) 100.20, 21 

 to' m%L dafmU tsxu an old man lay (literally, an old male man) 



50.21 

 tsayd'ne ti'mUl le'ux hl^'me their (dual) little children were boys 



(literally, little male children) 42.16 



§ 116. Vocabulary 



All Coos stems are either monosyllabic or pol3^syl]abic (mostly 

 bisy liable). Monosyllabic stems consist of a vowel followed by one 

 or two consonants, of one or two consonants followed by a vowel, or 

 of consonants, vowel, and consonants. Some of the bisyllabic stems 

 that are found in the language have been expanded by means of 

 grammatical processes (see § § 4, 84). 



§§ 114-116 



