BOAS] HANDBOOK OF II^DIAN LANGUAGES SIUSLAWAN 571 



t!l grizzly bear 12.4 tllyct}' h^yatst'tsun Grizzly Bear 



put it on 12.3 

 qlfutcvfiie, 48.17 ma°'tc qa'yutcHc (he and) his wife 



had lain 60.13 



2. NoLins with short stem-vowels, or with short vowels in the ac- 

 cented syllable, change these vowels into an a in their discriminative 

 forms. Short a-vowels of the stem are lengthened into a. 



■ /?JsnC'5 skunk 86.1 I'oia^'^^ hlto H Iqaqa"' txahi pE7ia' s 



(at) a rich man he always broke 

 his wind, (namely) Skunk 86.6, 7 



tst'sqan deer 13.9 Myatsftsun tsa'sqtn Deer put it on 



13.8 



qwo'txa^ beaver 48.6 a'tsa H hxim/i'ntG st'n^yun qwoa't- 



xa^^ ants q'^iH'tc that's why not 

 liked Beaver that Otter 54.8, 9 



pUqHs raccoon 70.28, 24 pa'lqHs Myatst'Uun Raccoon put 



it on 



qla'xa^xt wolf 13.2 q^Ia'xa^xt Uyatst'tmn Wolf put it 



on 12.8 



8wal grizzly bear Sfwal IHIa'yun Grizzly Bear de- 



voured them 15.2 



sjuma' pelican 44. 1 waa'dP-n squma' ants lqlal'd'm.d 



said Pelican to Sea-Gull 44.17 



3. Stems containing diphthongs, or stems whose accented syllables 

 end in the diphthong a\ add a short a to the diphthong for the purpose 

 of forming the discriminative case. 



ha^'mut all 9.5 haya'mut Mya'tc Llxu'yun all peo- 



ple know it 60.24, 25 

 yaq^^yl'^yutsatci haya'mut you all 

 shall look at me 72.11, 12 



ha^'na different 58.9 haya'na Myatst'tsun another (one) 



put it on 12.8 



4. Polj^syllabic stems whose accented syllable ends in a consonant 

 and is followed by a syllable beginning with a consonant form the dis- 

 criminative case by inserting a short a between these two consonants. 



tsxu'npLl coyote 88.9 ants Tsxuna'pil t!%'t!yun that (on 



which) he was sitting, (namely) 

 Coyote 94.6 



tEXTnt'l'md <A'^ people 58.25 tExmU'a'mi Llxu'yun an old man 



knew it 76.15, 16 



I Probably misheard for qwa'txai. & W\ 



