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hatca'i (tall, long) + -fu 

 yikt (big) + -t'v)^^ 

 wan (now) + -nxan 

 ^'n^xyun (he wants it) + -n 

 anxa'xa^n (he gives it up) + -n 

 nii'Ucist (he begins to burn) + 



tx 

 yakH'tc (in pieces) + -^/aa? + 



-xam 



Compare, on the other hand, — 



¥kwa'yun (he takes it) + -nx 

 Llwa'nlsun (he keeps on tell- 

 ing him) + -nx 



ha'tcfu"" a long (time) 48.2 

 yiMu'^^ large size 

 wa'nxan now we (excl.) 30.13 

 ^n^xyun I want it 30.4 

 anxa'xa^n I give him up 60.11 

 mi'ltcistx Loa' his mouth be- 

 gins to burn 29.3 

 yak Htcya' xmn into pieces it 

 was cut 29.4 



VkwaJyunanx you get it 48.18 

 Llwd'nlsunanx jo\x keep on 



telling him 17.2 



^16, Modifications of t and k 



Siuslaw seems to have a tendency to avoid as much as possible 

 the clusters tn and kn. Since the phonetic character of certain 

 suffixes causes t and ii to come into contact frequently, there are 

 many cases of sound shif tings due to the influence of n upon the pre- 

 ceding t. Combinations of this kind are the passive suffixes -utnE and 

 -IsutnE (see § § 58, 59). In these cases the t closure is not formed, 

 but replaced b}^ a free emission of breath, thereby changing these suf- 

 fixes into -unE and -IsunE respectively. It is not inconceivable that 

 this process may have a dialectic significance, differentiating the Lower 

 Umpqua and Siuslaw dialects, because it was noticed that William 

 Smith (who spoke the latter dialect) never used the forms -utiiE and 

 -IsutuE; while his wife ^ (a Lower Umpqua Indian) invariably hesi- 

 tated to acknowledge the correctness of the use of -unE and -Isu'nE. 

 But as I had no other means of verifying this possibility, I thought it 

 advisable to discuss this change as a consonantic process. The dialectic 

 function of the process under discussion may be borne out further by 

 the fact that in a good many instances these two suffixes occur in 

 parallel forms. 



waa^ he says 8.9 waa'yutnE 20.6 

 s^'na?^- to desire 18.5 si'n^xyutriE 1S.4 



waa'yiVnE he is told 

 72.3 



si'n\vyujiE it is de- 

 sired 20.4 



§ 16 



1 See Introduction. 



