BOAS] HANDBOOK OP INDIAN LANGUAGES — SIUSLAWAN 603 



tiamci'l'md L!a'°'^ all the children 34.6, 7 



qlutmfni Lla'"-^ many women 82.14 



SExa^'tc qaa'xmn ants Lla'^-^ tE\ into the canoe were put many 



things 34.5 

 iriEtcfl'tcHc xwa'lca ants £.V"* one-sided their heads (of) those 



(people) 70.5, 6 

 ya^'xa^ xu'nha^ hla''^^ they bet a great deal 70.6 

 hlqfaha^'ni hla'^-^ many dentalia shells 70.6 

 tsl'TcIyarm/lcIawa'nwUs hla'^-^ very bad (things existed) long ago 



14.7 

 stlm L!a'°'^ ma'qils there they keep on dancing 29.3 

 waa'aHsmB ants Lla'"-^ hltc he said to all his people 7.1 

 PeIcu'^ hla'"-^ they play shinny 9.4 

 Lloxa'xaHsmE hltc L!a'°'^ he sent all his people 30.1, 2 

 Tclu^wl'nun L!a'°'^ he made ice all over 94.2, 3 

 tclt'a'fun L!a'°-^ he caused the wind to blow all over 94.5 



This stem occurs also as a suffix. In such cases it is abbreviated 

 into -l! (see § 77). 



§ 134. Nouns and Verbs as Qualifiers 



Siuslaw has no means of indicating by a grammatical device the 

 sex of a given noun; that is to say, it does not exhibit grammatical 

 gender. Hence, whenever it is desired to distinguish between the 

 male and the female of a species, the nouns tExmu'ni man and 

 qlutcu'ni woman are used as qualifying a given appellative term. 

 The qualifying noun either precedes or follows the qualified term. 



qlutcu'ni Tcun'yos a female dog 

 tExmu'ni Tco'tan a male horse, stallion 

 tsl'sqan qlutcu'ni a female deer, doe 

 la'Tcukyax hltu'tc tExmu'nya she took a male person 60.23 

 tExmu'nitc^ax ants t!dmc Ic/ix thej'' two had boys each (literally, 

 male their [dual] those infants each [are]) 40.19 



Not infrequently verbs are used to qualify the actions implied 

 by another verbal stem. The qualifier has then the function of a 

 modal adverb, and its significance may best be compared to that of 

 our adverbs ending in -lt. The position of the qualifier is freely 

 movable. 



HsLoxu'x'^ xwlhla'z! so down(-wardly) he came back (literally, 

 he slid down and came back) 12.6 



§ 134 



