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Thus, -u may have had primarily a transitive indicative function 

 occurring in the suffixes -un (see § 28), -uts (see § 29), -ux (see § 30), etc. 

 In like manner, -fs- may have been the proto-suffix that indicated pro- 

 nominal relations between subject and object, being present in suffixes 

 like -uts (see § 29), -mits (see § 31), -ufsm- (see § 34), -uUs (see § 36), 

 -Us (see § 42), etc.; and -I- seems to have been originally a modal 

 suffix, denoting chiefly the possession of the object of the verb by 

 another person or thing, because it is found in suffixes like -ul 

 (see § 35), -uUs (see § 36), -i? (see § 45), -lUs (see § 46), etc. To all 

 appearances -i must have been an independent suffix implying a com- 

 mand, for it enters into composition with imperative and exhortative 

 suffixes like -is (see § 62), -Us (see § 42), -Imts (see § 44), -ll (see § 45), 

 -Uts (see § 46), -ix?m (see § 63), -Im (see § 41), etc.; and -to was 

 undoubtedly the general adverbial suffix. 



The following table will best illustrate the plausibility of relation- 

 ships between some of the suffixes that occur in Siuslaw. The forms 

 marked with an asterisk (*) represent the probable original suffix, 

 while the other forms indicate the suffixes as they appear today. 



*-u indicative 



-un direct object of third per- 

 son (see § 28) 



-uts direct object of first and 

 second persons (see § 29) 



~ux indirect object of third 

 person (see § 30) 



-utsm object possessed by sub- 

 ject, but separable from it 

 (see § 34) 



-ul object possessed by a third 

 person object (see § 35) 



-uUs object possessed by a first 

 or second person object (see 

 §36) 



-yu/i^ -i^yun exhortative (see 

 §41) 



-a^un intentional (see § 70) 



*-ts pronominal relations be- 

 tween subject and object 



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-uts direct object of first and sec- 

 ond persons (see § 29) 



-Emts indirect object of first and 

 second persons (see § 31) 



-utsm object possessed by subject, 

 but separable from it (see § 34) 



-ults object possessed by a first or 

 second person object (see § 36) 



-Us imperative with direct object 

 of the first person (see § 42) 



-lints imperative with indirect ob- 

 ject of the first person (see § 44) 



-llts imperative with object pos- 

 sessed by a first person (see § 46) 



-tsx imperative expressing posses- 

 sive interrelations between ob- 

 ject and subject (see § 47) 



-UsmE exhortative expressing pos- 

 sessive interrelations between 

 object and subject (see § 48) 



*-i imperative 



