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other than terms of relationship is formed by means of an internal 

 phonetic change (see § 111). The same case for the independent per- 

 sonal pronouns for the third person will be found discussed in § 113 

 (pp. 575 et seq.). The rules of consonantic clusters change this prefix 

 frequently into qa- (see § 4). 



mita father 54.22 



m^u'sk^ younger brother 56.6 



mUa mother 64.23 



na I 21.8 



iwJhan I 40.14 

 nl^ts thou 50.16 



qamita'tc wi'Ucistun her father 



sent her 92.20 

 H wan toaha'ha^n qa'mskHc now 



again (said to him) his younger 



brother 56.20, 21 

 a'l°-q qlutmll'md ta'yun qamila'- 



aHin one old woman kept (in 



her house) my mother 100.12 

 tn'lclyanx qua si'nhyuts very 



much thee I like 22.7 

 Llxu'yun qna'han I know it 19.9 

 hl^'sanx ma'nlsuts qnl'xHs well 



thou shalt always take care of 



me 22.2, 3 

 Hnx qwh'xFts xnV^nlsun and you 



will continually do it 98.10 

 qna'xun LElu'yuts we two (excl.) 



hit thee 

 qna'nxan ya'q^hlsuts we (excl.) 



will watch thee 72.6 

 qwatc Llxu'yun he who knows it 



44.8 

 Jcumi'ntc^ni qioatcTcu'^nlsuts not 



us (excl.) anybody will ever 



beat 72.17 



Suffixes (§§ 22-105) 

 § 22, General Remarks 



Besides the few ideas that are conveyed by means of other gram- 

 matical processes (such as prefixation, reduplication, etc.), Siuslaw 

 employs suffixation as a means of forming practically all of its mor- 

 phological and syntactic categories. These suffixes are either simple 

 or they are compounded of two or more distinct formative elements. 

 The compound suffixes usually have the cumulative significance of 

 their separate component parts. In many cases, owing to far-reaching 



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na^'xun we two (excl.) 36.15 



na'nxan we (excl.) 



loatc who, somebody 10.1 



