BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES SIUSLAWAN 455 



qwoa'txa} (beaver) + -a"a? qwoa'txa^^ax they two (he and) 



beaver 52.4 

 Mm7'a (mu8krat) + -a"a; tsimil'a'wax they two (he and) 



musk rat 54.19 



The transposition oi n-\-s and ts actually occurs in a few instances 

 onl}^, although I have no doubt that under more favorable con- 

 ditions a greater number of cases could have been collected (see 

 also p. 599). 



ants . . . lia}qa}' . . . when tsa'na^ Li'utux when it will come 



he comes ashore 82.5 (this wa}') 62.21, 22 



. -. . ants ikwa! myax when it tsa'ntci if 3"ou . . . 74.8 

 closed up 78.3 



leu} nats if not . . . 29.7 



% 14, Consonantic Euphony 



This law requires that the consonants of the ^'-series should corre- 

 spond to the quality of the vowel preceding or following it. Hence 

 all velar and palatal ^-sounds following a w-vowel become labialized. 

 Owing to the fact that Siuslaw does not possess anterior palatal 

 sounds, harmonization of consonants does not take place after or 

 before ^'-vowels. 



Iklanu'k'^ screech owl 86.1 Ikvm'nmf hat 



tcu'x^s vulva 90.16 fa'ntuqlwl moccasins 



qo'x'^m off shore 34.6 tslu'xwl spoon 



cuqwa'an roast 90.12 k! unwind'' ice appears 76.13 



^o'^" knee cil'^^^a sugar ^ 



§ 15. Simplification of Double Consonants 



Double consonants, when not kept apart by means of an inserted 

 weak vowel (see § 4), are usually simplified. This process especially 

 takes place between two t and n sounds, in which case the repeated 

 consonant is dropped. This phonetic law is of great importance; and 

 it should always be borne in mind, because it affects the subjective 

 suffix for the first person singular -/?,, when following the transitive 

 form in -U7i. In such cases the subjective pronoun is invariably 

 dropped; and since the third person singular has no distinct suffix, it 

 becomes at times rather difficult to comprehend by which of these two 

 persons a given action is performed (§§ 24, 28). 



1 English loan-word. 



§§ 14-15 



