830 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



4, When the theme of a transitive verb appears as the first part 

 of a compound, it has a passive meaning: 

 teik-evi' rm (ready) made clothing 86.22 

 a^'tti-yno-Tcamaanve'ti to (by) dog-sniti;ed-(at)-dishes 96.10 

 tot-tai'lia-Tcamaanve' ti to newly made dishes 96.18 

 ter-igto'-qaie'ne to a newly born fawn 129.13 



% 117, Incor p oration, of No an 



A nominal stem may be incorporated in the verbal complex, and 

 then forms a unit with the verbal stem which it precedes. The incor- 

 porated noun may express the subject of intransitive verbs, the object 

 or instrument with transitive verbs. 



{a) Intransitive verbs which incorporate an inanimate noun as sub- 

 ject express a verbal concept relating to a person. 

 uwi'Tc pii'tkurkin the body becomes ready 



but twiaDi'lc-u-pci'ikurki)i I become body-ready (i.e., I am grown 

 up) 

 va'li nito'rkin (Kor. Kam. va'Ja nito'ykin) the knife comes out 

 but vala-nto' rlcin (Kor. Kara, vdla-nto'yliin) he is knife-coming- 

 out (i. e., he draws his knife) 

 nuwge'ntoqen he is one whose breath goes out 126.9 

 awgentoya' nviika he is without breath going out 63.8 

 11 1 qoUn to' a- 71 his voice goes out 12T.8 

 {h) Verbs with incorporated nominal object. It is hardlj' feasible 

 to draw a sharp line of demarcation between verbs with incorporated 

 object and the verbal suffixes which form derivatives of nouns (§ 111, 

 Nos. 73-77). These are -fiita to fetch, -tuwe to take off, ij) to put 

 ON -gill TO SEARCH FOR, -u TO CONSUME, TO EAT. Owiug to their 

 meaning, these would hardly be expected to occur without object, and 

 they are always suflixed to it — or the object is always incorporated with. 

 them. In the texts the incorporated object is used most frequently in 

 phrases in which the action is performed habitually on a certain ob- 

 ject, although incorporated forms that express single actions that are 

 not performed habitually are not absent. On the whole, this process 

 does not appear very frequently in the texts. 



tiqaanma'tirkin (Kor. Kam. t iqoyanma' tekin) orll slaughter rein- 

 tinmi'rkin qa'at (Kor. Kara. tinme'Tcm qoya'wge)] deer 

 qena-take' chi-lpi' nfige^ me meat give! 



guinni'n e'IciTc qd-hile' tf>l-ipi' nfi-gin \\\y son money-give him I 

 u'tti-wl'Jrlcin (Kor. Kara. a-nda'yTcin) he breaks a stick 

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