BOAS] HANDBOOK OF USTDIAN" LANGUAGES SIUSLAWAN 563 



§ 102. Nouns in -unt (-d^Tit) 



t 



This suffix is added to adjectives, a few adverbs used in an ad- 

 jectival sense, and to nouns. It has a double function. When added 

 to adjectives or to adverbs, it transforms them into nouns, just as 

 any adjective is transformed into a noun by adding one to it (com- 

 pare our phrases the big one, the good one, etc.). When used 

 with other nouns, this suffix has an adjectival character, which may be 

 best rendered by made of, composed of. 



tEX^ni strong 10.1 iEXjnu'ni the strong one, a man 



30.21 

 Lxa^'yax other 42.8 Lxa^yaxa^'ni the other one 86.18 



yikt big 48.8 yiJctu'ni the big one 



s^a^i large s^a^tu'ni the larger one 92.18 



yak!- small 38.19 tu yak!a^'n% that small one 88.12 



limnl'tc behind 86.11 limnltcu'ni mictci'^ the j^oungest 



sister 40.2 

 hl'q/a beads, Indian money, Mq/aha'^'m consisting of dentalia 



dentalia shells 74.19 shells 78.14 



jpi'lqHs coon p^(f-tsu'n% taha'nik made of rac- 



coon (-hide) quivers 70.23, 24 

 t!l bear 12.4 tllyu'ni tahd'nik made of bear 



(-skin) quivers 70.24 

 Tcllx tEq everything 24.4 ^/ea;^t'n^z!£'^«"'n^Au^5c<2^' composed 



of every sort (of) fun 10.5 

 la'qlaq boards laqlaqa^' nltc hltsl'^ made of some 



kinds of boards the house 80.7 



This suffix may be added to verbal stems provided the verb has 

 been changed into an attribute of a following noun. 



hamx- to tie H hainxa^'ni ants tsEha^'ya and 



that made of tied grass . . . 8.6 



§ 103. Nominalizing Sufl3.x Indicating Place -a^ttiu 



This suffix indicates the place where a certain action is performed. 

 When added to stems ending in a velar or palatal consonant, it apj)ears 

 as -ya^mu^ and changes the final velar of the stem {q, q!) into a palatal 

 Ic (see § 17). After all other consonants it occurs as -a^mu. The short 

 i^-vowels following velar and palatal consonants disappear before this 

 suffix. It is possible that the final u of the suffix may be related to 

 the general nominalizing suffix -u discussed in § 94 (see § 23). 



§§ 102-103 



