186 KLAMATH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 



leledslii, (1. lel'lt'dslii young of mammah, hrood; cub, jnippj/ etc. : nu'isli- 

 musham 1. calf one year old and upward; slii'pani 1. lamb, lambkin. Der. 

 hla-a. Cf. lala-isli, Iflhanksh. 



1 el ed sli i ;i <i-a, lel(idsliiak, d. lel'ledshi/iga young cub, pwppy, whelp; 

 animal in its earliest stage of" life Dim. leU'dshi. 



L e 1 (J k a s li , abbr. Lele'ks, Ldleksli, nom. pr. of a deceased liead-cliief of the 

 Klamatli Lake tribe, a signer of tlie treaty of 1864. He Iiad ten wives, 

 of whom a few were still living in 1877, while others had been repndi- 

 ated by himself Tn May 18G0 he was removed from his position as 

 chief for imbecility and Allen David cho.sen in his stead; Ind. Aft'. Report, 

 1869, p. 176; cf 1867, p. 92. He died a short time after the Modoc war 

 in the wooden house built for him by the government at Ya-aga, and 

 since then no person of the tribe dared to live in it. Having been the 

 owner of a spotted horse, his name is interpreted by: lelekash, spotted ; 

 another name of his was Tchm(')%altko, q. v. 



1 e 1 1 w a to be at the end or in a corner of; to form an edge or corner; to stand 

 or lie at the end of a roiv or series, 174; 7. Cf lawa, taniiklsha. 



1 d 1 k t c h a , d. leldlktcha to leave, leave behind, relinquish, throw away and 

 leave; said of rocks, stones, watches, wheels, balls, filled sacks etc.: 

 tchi'ktchik 1. to let a wagon stand, 78, 14 ; kttii 1. to leave stones behind, 85, 

 14. Der. dlktcha 



1 (i 1 k a , lt'l;^a, d. lelal/a to lay, to put or p)laee down; to deposit on the ground; 

 said of round and bulky things oidy. Der. cl;^a. 



1 e'l tki , d. lele'ltki to peep out, to look at, 126, 8.; to look who comes in 



leluish, pi. tumi 1., a species of black />m^ moving rapidl}' in the water; 

 dangerous when swallowed. 



leluidshish time or epoch of death; hishnakga, snavved.shga giul^a 

 k'luidshishti son, daughter born after the father's death. Cf =lillsh. 



L 6 m a i k s h i , phonetic metathesis for Melaikshi, q. v. 



Igmatch, leraatch, pi. tumi 1., mealing-stone ; large flat stone about one 

 foot square, used by Indian women for griiuling (roasted) seeds, wheat, 

 corn, small fruits etc., 80, 1.; the Aztec metlatl; lematchatka sliilaklgfshtka 

 57l-ulal(')nank tchipash they rub fine the tchipash-secd upon the mrtatc by means 

 of the rnhbing-stone, 1 19, 8. \)ov. lam- in Idma, lemh'ma. 



