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'Efii occurs with a few nouns. 



%lqwa°''tEm root, alder tree tsami'tsEm chin 



92.5, 6 qlu'riEin winter 80.19 



pl'ctcEm summer 98.8 xa^'tsEin woman's basket 



•Tst seems to denote an abstract idea. 



pin- to be sick 40. 21 plnl'si sickness, cough 



qa^x dark, night 38.21 qa^xl'si darkness, night 



hwu'nhwun black ho'filsi dusk 



ni'ctca ( ?) how 16. 2 ni'ctcisi arrival ( ?) 40. 16 



v%ct(Anwd^' spring comes nictcanu'wisi year 92.12 



The following nouns have analogous form: 



a'^'tcisi camas 96.20 z/nti^tdsi crawfish 



ll'xtsmsi small-pox 



The nouns tswa'si frost and L'^wa'si nose may also belong here. 



'Wt is found in a small number of nouns. 



sri'na^wi grouse Tclo^'xwi gnat 



tsna'wi bone q^hd'qvA broom 



In a few instances this suffix seems to form nouns of agency, and 

 may be related to the suffixes discussed in § § 97 and 99. 



tsxan- to comb one's hair tsxa'nvA a comb 



qatcfu}- to drink 76.12 qatcwl'wt a person who waters 



animals (?) 

 c^xii- to drive away, to acare cuxwa'wt a driver ( ?) 



56.11 

 llq- to dig 80.6 tlqa'wt one who digs holes 



-yuwt, -Iwt. These two suffixes have a peculiar function. They 

 seem to denote the nominal object of an action performed by a noun 

 of agency (see § 100). The most puzzling phenomenon connected with 

 their function is the fact that they can be added only to the discrimi- 

 native form of a noun (see § 111), which seems to stand in direct con- 

 tradiction to its objective significance, because the discriminative 

 case points to the noun as the subject of the action. 



Absolutive Discriminative Objective 



pETii's skunk 86.1 psna's 86.7 t^L/t! pEnasyu'wt a 



skunk-shooter 



§ 105 



