LINGUISTIC AFFINITIES. U 



tchAkfila, by which two kinds of root baskets are specified in Klamath. 

 The Sayusla tsdokwa leg answers to tchil'ks, Mod. tchokasli leg and to 

 sho'ksh, Mod. tche-o'ksh crane, this bird being called after its long legs. 

 The ShosJioni stock, with its extensive array of diak'"ts, spoken in the closest 

 vicinity of the Klamath people, is almost devoid of any resemblances; cf. 

 ka-i not, and napal egg, compared with nobave in Payute, nobavh Cheme- 

 huevi; nopavh Shoshoiii. This probably rests on no real affinity. In the 

 Noja language, spoken near Redding, California, putsi Jnimming-hird corre- 

 sponds to Kl. pi'shash, and tchashina, tchashi, a small shink species, to Kl. 

 tchashish. For Wintun may be compared Kl. pan to eat with ba, bah; kalo 

 sky (from kjilkali, round, globiform) with k'altse sky. 



From Selish saiga field the Kl. saiga, saika prairie, field, meadoiv was 

 certainly borrowed, and t'tjize grasshopper of Kalispelm reappears here in 

 ta'hta-ash and in Mod. kamtata. Kaukawak yellow of Chinook is kauka-uli, 

 kevk^vH brown of Kl. ; and tenas young, recent reappears in Kl. te'-ini new, 

 young, te-iniwA-ash young tvoman; c£ tdnase infant in Aht dialect of Van- 

 couver Island. The long array of words which Klamath has borrowed from 

 Chinook jargon are enumerated in Grrammar, pages 220-222. 



Maidu. — An uncommon number of affinities are found to exist between 

 Klamath and the Maidu dialects east of the Sacramento River. Of these 

 terms some are not loan words, but appear to be derived from some common 

 stock. 



ha la slope of mountain; Kl. lala, lilala to slope downwards. 



kAla hot-water basket; Maidu, k611o cup-basket. 



k4we eel; Maidu, kow6. 



ngulu, kiilu, kiilo female animal; Maidu dialects: kii'le, kii'lle, kiila, 

 woman, wife, and female animal. This word also composes the terms father 

 and child, and hence means "to generate" 



p4n to eat: Maidu, d. pen, pap, pa, pepe to eat; pan to smoke in Maidu, 

 corresponds to Kl. paka; pdni, pan is tobacco in Maidu. 



pen, pa'n again, a second time ; Maidu, pene ttvo. 



viilal, vilal Cottonwood tree; Maidu, wilili. 



From the Shasti language Modoc has borrowed more than Klamath 

 l.ake, and the terms as far as known are all mentioned in the Dictionary. 



