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L/mak'- short LlmaWsk'm very short 50.18 



yak- small 29.4 ya'^'TcH'sVin very small 36.23 



a;2/aZ'a; almost, very nearly 11,1 xyal'xi'sk'in qa'tchit qa^ha'nto he 



went a little ways (literally, al- 

 most, a little, he goes, far) 12.1 

 hl'eatca a while hlcatca' sVin a little while 64.8 



§ 84. AUGMENTATIVE -H'mii 



"tl'md expresses the idea of largeness, and, in terms of relation- 

 ship, that of age; and it may be suffixed to stems expressing, besides 

 nominal, also adjectival ideas. When added to stems that end in a 

 lateral, the lateral of the suffix disappears in accordance with the law 

 of simplification of consonants (see § 15). This suffix requires the 

 accent. 



ql'utc woman 48.17 qmtci'l'md old woman 94.22 



L%pL- grandfather LipL'ma grandfather 



TcamL grandmother 96.22 waa^'tx ants Itamh'inatG she said 



to that her grandmother 96.21 

 t!amc infant 40.19 t.'dmdH'md old infant, hence 



young (man) 54.22 

 tEX°-in strong 10.1 tEXTni'l'md very strong (man), 



hence old (man) 40.10 

 pEni's skunk 86.1 pEmsVl'md a large skunk 



y%kt big 48.8 yxkti'l'ma very big 40.6 



The diminutive suffix is not infrequently added to the augmentative 

 for the purpose of mitigating the impression made by the augmenta- 

 tive, and vice versa. 



tldmc infant 40.19 t!dmdil'ma'sTc'in little big infant, 



hence little boy 94.20 



mild mother 54.23 m%laslc%'l'md^ step-mother (liter- 



ally, little old mother) 



CASE-ENDINGS (§§ 85-87) 

 § 86. Introductory 



Unlike the languages spoken by the neighboring tribes, Siuslaw 

 shows a rich development of nominal cases. Two of these, the geni- 

 tive or relative case and the locative, are formed by means of sepa- 

 rate suffixes, while the discriminative case is formed by means of a 

 vocalic change (see § 111). In addition to these distinct case-endings, 



> The contraction of mUasWl-maiiom. mtlask'tni'l-ma may be explained as due to the assimilation 

 of n to ;: following the contraction of the vowels. 



§§ 84-85 



