BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES SIUSLAWA.N 



sqa^Tc there 14. 6 

 qanis- down 



555 



tqa^wl'- up-stream 56.8 



sqa}lctdl'tc qa't&ntux there (they) 

 will go 80.22 



qanistci'tc txu sloxu'x^ down sim- 

 ply he went (slid) 12.6 



qa'tc^nt tqa'^vMdVtc he went up- 

 stream 58.12 



This modal suffix may also express the idea of instrumentality, as 

 will be seen from the following examples : 



t&l' l!% arrow 50.7 



tsax"" slave 76.3 



Tcinni'ntc xa'ioU tsiLll'tc not he can 

 die through (literally, with) an 

 arrow 15.8 



tuha'ha^n tsEXivl'tc he bought her 

 in exchange for a slave 



When added to verbal stems, -Itc is almost invariabl}^ followed or 

 preceded by the verbs xint- to go, to start, and hlq!- to stakt, to 

 begin; and the idea conveyed by such a phrase may best be compared 

 with our English sentences I go into a state of . . .,1 start . . . 

 -LY. The Siuslaw informant, unable to express this native phrase in 

 English, usually rendered it by I, thou, he almost. . . . 



tdhi- to go home, to return 

 12.10 



tEmu'- to assemble 7.3 



Li'u- to arrive 9.2 



tcax^- to go back, to return 

 30.14 



xau' he died 40.21 



qdtx tcEiil'tc xint he cried as he 

 went home (literally, he cries 

 when homewards he starts) 

 58.15, 16 



tEmvJ-'tc xint hla'"'^ people came 

 together (literally, into a state 

 of coming together go many) 

 30.15, 16 



Livn'td^ax wan xint they two are 

 almost home (literally, in the 

 manner of arriving they two 

 finally go) 23.1 



lil'x^s tsxayu''^^ a'ntsin tcEXvn'tc 

 xint for ten days I was going 

 back (literally, ten days this 1 

 returningly went) 66.20, 21 



XEwl'tc^nx hi'q.'ya (when) you are 

 near death (literally, [when] in 

 the manner of dying you start) 

 34.25 



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